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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, […]

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 […]

Dante Luchetti, welcome and thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to be with us all today. Tell us a little about yourself and your achievements in Padel so far! Thank you very much for the interview. I started in Argentina, after leaving tennis about 28 years ago. We started in a […]

Hi Gregor Ficko, thank you for joining me here today…  Firstly could you please introduce yourself to our readers?  A little about your tennis background and what you are doing at the moment in tennis? Hello dear colleagues out there.  I am very happy to have help from Mark Wylam of sportsprosconnect.com to connect worldwide […]

          Welcome back to the sportsprosconnect.com blog, Mark Tennant.  Many of our readers will know who you are, but for the benefit of other readers, please just give a brief introduction as to who you are and what have you done in the tennis world to date? Thanks Mark ! I’m a Level […]

                     The Importance of Structured Warm Ups and Cool Downs in Tennis for Everyone! Tennis is a sport which when played at any level places massive demands on the body and in players of any level can expose them to overuse injuries and the creation of […]