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Good morning Mark Finnegan, please tell us a little about yourself and your career to date? I was a college coach for 12 plus years at 3 different division 1 university’s. Before that I coached with Cliff Drysdale management. Upon return to Ireland a few months ago I began my new business All Sports Recruitment. […]

                Good morning Mark Jeffery, thanks for being here today.  Could you please tell us a little about yourself and your career to date? Mark Hi! Thanks for inviting me here today and I should say at the beginning thanks for being called Mark ….its so much easier to […]

                     Today, we are taking a slightly different approach and have interviewed three female coaches.  All three have different backgrounds and it has been interesting to find out their thoughts on being a female coach.  We have Rosemary Owino who is based in Kenya, Debbie Ladig […]

                Good morning Margot Carter, please tell us a little about yourself and your career to date? I first started playing Tennis age 6, and like any good Brit dreamed of winning Wimbledon from a young age, and competed all around England on the Junior Circuit. At the […]

                     Good morning Jane Forman, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to answer these questions… Firstly, please introduce yourself to our readers and give us some information on your career playing and coaching tennis to date. Hi Everyone, My name is Jane […]

Good morning John Curzon, its a pleasure to have you here today.  For our viewers, please introduce yourself and what it is you do in the tennis industry. Hi Mark, yes my name is John Curzon & I am a Tennis Coach & a Sports Technology Professional based in Sydney Australia. I have 20 plus […]

                     Hi Conrad Singh, its great to have you with us today.  Firstly, please tell us a little about yourself and your tennis history to date? • Growing up in Melbourne Australia, I was very involved in competition and became as a top Junior.  Tennis is just […]

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 […]

                Good morning Nick Jacques, its great to have you here today.  Firstly, will you please tell our viewers a little about yourself and what you do in tennis currently? Hi Mark, I have been coaching tennis now for 24 years. My passion and expertise is working with […]

           Good afternoon Danniel Ruyange, it’s good to have you here today.  Please tell us a little about yourself and what you currently do in tennis? Thank you and greetings mark, I am Danniel Ruyange, Founder & Chief Coach of the ROL Tennis Academy established in the year 2012. Since inception […]

           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 […]

           Good evening Fabrizio Caldarone!  First of all, please tell us a little about your career in tennis? First of all Tennis has always been a very important part of my life since I was a child. I tried to play professionally when I was younger and traveled around the world […]

One of the benefits of running a global directory of tennis coaches and academies is that there are so many different countries participating in tennis and therefore so many great minds of the game from different parts of the world!!  Today, we will be interviewing Philippe Matta about Tennis in Lebanon… Good morning Philippe, its […]

           Hi Sarah Stone, its great to have you here today!!  Firstly, for our readers, please introduce yourself to everybody and tell us a little about your tennis career to date… Hey Mark! Always my pleasure to chat with you. I’m an Aussie who wound up an American citizen, living in […]

                     Good morning Mark Milne, it’s a pleasure to have you here.  Please tell us a little about yourself and your career to date in sport and tennis in particular. Many thanks for having me Mark. It is very much appreciated. I was born in the […]

Good morning Ulf Lindberg, its great to have you here today… For those that do not know, please introduce yourself and your career to date? I was born in Sweden, I started with football and ice hockey, but at 10 years old i got stuck with tennis. My favourite players back in those days were […]

r                     Good morning Kris Soutar, its a pleasure to have you here today. For those that don’t know you, please introduce yourself and what you have done in the tennis world?  I’m now half way through my 27th year as a tennis coach. At the start I […]

                     Good morning Badri Narayanan, great to have you here…  First of all, please explain to our viewers who you are and what you do as a job? Thanks Mark. I am a mental conditioning and a high performance coach and work with players on the ATP […]

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 […]

By Mark Tennant, Director of inspire2coach What’s the best way to learn as a coach? Is there a perfect way to learn new ideas, develop new philosophies and strategies? Since i2c started in 2007, we have qualified more than 7000 coaches in the UK; that’s 7000 coaches who have attended one of our Level 1, […]