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              Introduction: We released the newest addition to our platform this time last week (5th March 2021).  It is called the Tennis Player Profile Classifieds Section.  For the purpose of this article, we will refer to this as TPP Classifieds. This is extremely innovative, and we feel there isn’t […]

Introduction: We introduced a new phase of SportsProsConnect in October 2019, after a successful trial period from August to October.  We started working on tennis coach recruitment and can now call ourselves an international tennis coaching jobs platform.  We have successfully placed 41 coaches with moves internationally. What makes us really proud is that we […]

Excited to Launch a Jobs Platform for Tennis Coaches: We are extremely excited to be able to announce that our worldwide tennis coaching jobs platform will be going live during next week, week commencing 21st October 2019.  This is extremely exciting news and is something that has been brewing since May 2019 when we placed […]

SportsProsConnect (SPC) is all about the coaches.  We will do anything we can to help tennis coaches worldwide.  We also believe that there is a reason why every tennis coach globally should have some sort of presence with SPC.  It is a common myth that people really don’t fully understand what SPC is about.  Today […]

This time last year we were all excited about going live with our next venture Sports Pros Connect…  We had just announced the launch and we were busy promoting the business to coaches and Academies in Barcelona followed by exhibiting at the WTCA Conference at Roland Garros, Paris later in the month. The basic idea […]

Within SportsProsConnect we are aware of the importance of innovating and constantly thinking of ways to add benefits for our members.  Since the business has been going, updates and changes to products have been made on average every 6 months. Due to the amount of networking we have been doing, we have been able to […]

I am one of the Assistant Coaches and Chairman at Letterkenny Tennis Club in Donegal, Ireland.  I do not do much coaching myself (just help out at the Academy Sessions), however we have a fantastic head coach – Gerry Clarke who is great with the young people.  We have a strong junior programme with some […]

Owning sportsprosconnect.com and Sports Pros Connect has been a dream come true.  As a teenager I always wanted to own a business in sports.  I played cricket, hockey, table tennis, football (soccer) and tennis as a child and in my teenage years, and now here I am coaching tennis and running a worldwide directory of […]

           Sportsprosconnect.com was launched at the end of May 2018, just prior to Roland Garros. Originally we were called sportsprosconnect.com but decided to re-brand for several reasons. The first and main reason was that coaches didn’t want to be branded as ‘Social Coaches’.  So, we changed our goals accordingly and set out as the […]

Introduction Good morning readers.  It is a pleasure to sit here and talk to you today as the owner of Sportsprosconnect.com.  From today onwards we will be looking forward to the re-running of a regular Friday afternoon blog.  These will be in the form of interviews, articles from well known sports coaches or players, and […]

sportsprosconnect.com Its been a tough ride working on sportsprosconnect.com. We have had our ups and downs and it will certainly be sad to have to let sportsprosconnect.com go after so many years in existence. The business has been active since the 1990’s in some capacity and was a legacy given to me by my late […]

          It was back in November 2017, at the BTCA Coaches Conference in Northampton that I met Head Coach of Aphrodite Hills Tennis Academy, Scott Wakefield.  Scott was exhibiting his Academy in Cyprus, and we were doing the same trying to promote sportsprosconnect.com.  So, as the presentations were going on, all […]

   Like any business you need goals to succeed.   At sportsprosconnect.com one of our long term goals is  to ‘help the sport of tennis by growing the participation levels worldwide’. In order to achieve this it is down to each countries tennis federation to come up with a plan, and inform their coaches on how to deliver […]

   August News: Its only the first day in August and I havent been in touch since Federer became Wimbledon Champion again and Garbine Muguruza beat Venus in the Womens Final.  Another memorable Wimbledon has gone and now we are on a countdown to the final Major of the Year – the US Open.  I […]

      Good morning ladies and gents!  I sit here typing my second review of Roland Garros watching the first Semi Final of the men’s contest with Andy Murray just having won the first set tiebreak against Stan Wawrinka.  Stan hasnt lost a set in this Championship before now and really hasnt played badly […]

           Well, what a first few days it has been at Roland Garros.  I am not there but I have managed to watch a fair bit and I have seen the reviews that the media and others have written all over Social Media…  So, lets start with the ladies…  There have […]

           I am the MD for sportsprosconnect.com, and a couple of weeks ago I wrote an article on the history of sportsprosconnect.com.  Today, I am going to talk through the importance of tennis coaches being profiled online.  This is one of sportsprosconnect.com’s main products and it should benefit all tennis coaches […]

            sportsprosconnect.com was founded in 1999 by Ralph Wylam and was taken over in March 2016 by myself, Mark Wylam – Ralph’s son.  The website was primarily launched in 2003 as a base to sell Ralph’s book Revolutionise Your Social Tennis Tournaments which was first published in 1994 and is […]

    I sincerely believe that many tennis academies have fantastic websites. There are so many academies out there it is hard to choose where you send your son / daughter if they are exceptional players. You need to think of what direction they may want to take i.e. should they aim to become a […]