Kensuke Watabe

Qualifications

• 20 years of professional coaching experience internationally in both junior and professional players
• 18 years touring coach experience in ATP, WTA and ITF tour (visited more than 30 countries for the tournaments)
• 10 years experience as sports marketing industry mainly for professional tennis players (1 year experience with UNIQLO sports project team, 4 years with gram3 sports team and 5 years with MIZUNO Japan marketing and present)
• 12 years experience living overseas (US 7 years & Singapore 5 years)
• Management skills to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously.
• Able to guide clients from the beginning to end of their carrier pathway.
• Highly skilled in achieving goal of athletes in a team environment.
• Ability to manage complaints and request under pressure and to resolve them successfully.
• Able to understand athletes’ minds such as attitude, thought, philosophy, career pathway, difficulties and etc. according to coaching and tennis player experiences.
• Native Japanese. Business-level English communication skills (both spoken and written)

Further information

GPTCA Japan representative

Experience

Founder, 1ntegrators; Japan — 2015-Present

• Advisor of young athletes career pathway
• Junior tennis player development
• Touring coach for pro/junior tennis players.
• Agent and coordination for US college placement

GPTCA Representative in Japan — 2019-Present

• Coordinating coaching community and organizing GPTCA license structure

Assistant Advisor, UNIQLO, CO., LTD; Japan — 2014-2015

• Supported UNIQLO sports project team. Also supported UNIQLO global ambassador Novak Djokovic, Kei Nishikori, wheelchair tennis player Shingo Kunieda and golf player Adam Scott
• Accomplished sponsor activation and  launched UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour with ITF team.
• Supported UNIQLO soccer kids event

Touring Coach, Kimiko Date & JOC coach; Japan — 2014

• Toured WTA tour coaching and hitting partner for Kimiko Date about 5 month. (Former No.4 in WTA) Her best performance during this term was quarterfinalist of Pattaya Open, Thailand (International Series)
• JOC (Japan Olympic Committee) certificated coach.

Assistant Coach, Shuzo Challenge; Japan — 2013

• Supported Shuzo Challenge produced by Shuzo Matsuoka as an assistant coach (Top junior tennis players development program)

Assistant Touring Coach, U16 Japan National Team; Japan — 2013

• Worked with Japan federation team (Japan Tennis Association) mainly U16 boys team as a part-time. 

Touring Coach, Sora Fukuda; Japan — 2012-2014

• Toured ITF junior tournaments (International Tennis Federation) with Sora Fukuda (JPN) while he is 14-16 years old as a private touring coach and achieved No.1 in Japan U16 category and reached top 30 in International Tennis Junior Ranking.

Junior Development Coach & Oversea Manager, Sanwa Tennis Academy; Singapore 2007-2012

• Coached as a head coach of junior players on high performance team organized by  all over the world (Mainly Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, U.S.A, England, Ireland, Germany, France and etc.)
• Coordinated international marketing and players relations. 
• Held sports events and sports marketing support for expanding sports industries in Singapore.