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INDUSTRY NEWS
Bollettieri, Judy Murray to Speak at PTR Symposium
Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) is pleased to announce
that acclaimed coaches Nick Bollettieri and Judy Murray
are headline speakers at the PTR International Tennis
Symposium that will be held February 13-16, 2018, on Hilton
Head Island, S.C.
The legendary Nick Bollettieri is one of the most influential
people in tennis. In 1978, he created the academy model of
training and founded the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in
Florida. His multi-faceted approach includes blending the
technical and strategic on-court training with specialized
performance physical training and mental conditioning.
Bollettieri coached 10 world #1 players - Agassi, Becker,
Courier, Hingis, Jankovic, Rios, Seles, Sharapova and Venus
and Serena Williams, as well as a multitude of other world
class players, including Nishikori, Haas, Kournikova, Arias
and Vaidisova, to name a few.
At 86, Bollettieri is still coaching every day. He is a member
of 10 halls of fame including the International Tennis Hall
of Fame and the Black Tennis Hall of Fame, an author,
philanthropist, motivational speaker, commentator,
mentor, advisor and clinician.
Judy Murray, coach of world #16 Andy Murray, is a
former Scottish tennis player with 64 national titles
to her name. She became Scottish National Coach in
1995, the same year she also became the first woman
to pass the LTA’s Performance Coach Award. She
initiated the Scott ish Development School program
that ultimately produced four Davis Cup players and
one Fed Cup player, including her Grand Slam winning
sons, Jamie and Andy. In 2011, she was appointed
Captain of the British Fed Cup Team and used this role
to grow the profile and numbers in women’s tennis
across players and coaches.
Murray has developed several tennis initiatives,
including Miss-Hits, a starter program for girls ages
5 to 8, that she will present at the PTR Symposium,
Tennis on the Road that takes tennis into remote and
deprived parts of Scotland, and, most recently, She
Rallies, a program with the LTA to encourage more
women and girls into tennis across the UK.
For more information or to register for the Symposium,
visit www.ptrtennis.org or call 843-785-7244.
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