With the participation of more than 550 coaches from all over the world, the ITF World Coaches Conference was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 11 to 14 October at the Marinela hotel facilities. To this end, the infrastructure used for congresses at the hotel was used, and an artificial grass court was set up as a grand stand and several conference rooms to accommodate a whole constellation of coaches of proven track record:
David is the current President of the International Tennis Federation. Haggerty is an experienced tennis administrator, having held a variety of roles within the United States Tennis Association (USTA) since 2001 and within the ITF since 2009. He served as Chairman, CEO and President of the USTA in 2013-14, and was a Vice President on the ITF Board of Directors in 2013-15. He is a former President of the Tennis Industry Association and a current board member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Away from tennis administration, Haggerty had a 30-year career in the racket industry, and is a former Chairman of Head USA, President of Penn Racquet Sports, and President of Dunlop Maxfli Slazenger Sports.
Mary Pierce started playing tennis at the age of 10 and turned Pro at 14. Her best WTA ranking was No. 3 in singles and doubles, achieving 511 victories in Singles and 197 in Doubles. She won 2 Singles Grand Slams (French Open, Australian Open) and 2 Doubles Grand Slams (French Open and Wimbledon). Mary also won the Fed Cup two times with France in 1997 and 2003.
Throughout her playing she has received many awards such as the WTA Most Improved Player in 1994, the WTA Comeback Player of the year in 1997 when she began the year 25th and finished 7th, and more recently she won the USTA FL Hall of Fame Award which rewards a player who has been, through her efforts, willingness, cooperation, and participation, most deserving of the respect and honour of all volunteers, either in play or organizational work for having made the greatest contribution to tennis in Florida during the past years.
Magdalena, a native of Sofia, won 10 Tour-level singles titles and reached career-high rankings of No. 4 in singles and No. 13 in doubles over a 16-year professional career. Her older sisters, Manuela and Katerina, also competed at elite level, reaching No. 3 and No. 6 in the WTA singles rankings respectively. During her time on the professional tour, Maleeva recorded wins against numerous former and current top 10 players including Venus Williams, Martina Navratilova, Lindsay Davenport, Amélie Mauresmo and many more. She also represented Bulgaria on 27 occasions in Fed Cup by BNP Paribas action and amassed an impressive 27-17 win-loss record.
Elena Is a Russian former professional tennis player. She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16. Together with Mahesh Bhupathi she won the Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Championships in 2002, and the Australian Open mixed doubles championship with Daniel Nestor in 2007. She has also been a runner-up in a number of other tournaments, including the Australian Open Women's doubles in 2004 (with Svetlana Kuznetsova), French Open Women's doubles in 2004 (Svetlana Kuznetsova) and Mixed doubles in 2003, and the 2000 (Ai Sugiyama) and 2004 US Open Women's doubles (with Svetlana Kuznetsova). Elena’s coaching experience began at the end of her playing career. As a personal coach she worked with Eugenia Rodina in 2008. She also worked for somen time with Vitalia Dyachenko in 2015. From 2010-2016 she was an assistant coach working with Anastasia Myskina and the Russian Fed Cup team. She has also served as the National coach for 12U and 14U girls in Russia. Currently, Elena is the National coach for female players (reserve/second team).
Louis Cayer
Louis has been working with the Aegon GB Davis Cup and GB Fed Cup teams as well as the LTA Coach Development department since 2007. Prior to joining the LTA, Louis previously coached and captained the Canadian Davis Cup team for 12 years in addition to developing the Coach Education Program for Tennis Canada. In 2016, Louis worked with Jamie Murray whilst he was on route to becoming the world number one in doubles.
Bruce Elliott
Bruce is a Senior Research fellow in biomechanics within the School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health, at the University of Western Australia. Generally considered a world leader in research into sport biomechanics, particularly tennis biomechanics, he has co-edited the ITF publications Biomechanics of Advanced Tennis (2003), Technique Development in Tennis Stroke Production (2009) and Tennis Science: Optimizing Performance on the Court (2015). He has published over 240 refereed articles in journals and 110 refereed Conference Proceedings, as well as over 70 book chapters or books, all in the general area of sports biomechanics. The ITF in 2015 gave him their “Service to the Game – Coaching” award, the first academic to receive such an honour.
Machar Reid
Machar is the Innovation Catalyst for Tennis Australia (TA), having previously served as its inaugural Sport Science and Medicine Manager and High Performance Manager. Machar has previously trained multiple top 100 professional players, including high profile talent (Greg Rusedski and Li Na) and has also coached junior Grand Slam winners as part of the ITF’s Junior Touring team, and co-authored the ITF's coaching curriculum. He has obtained a PhD in tennis and ranks among the sport’s most widely published authors, having contributed to 12 books, 20 book chapters and 80+ peer reviewed articles. Machar has successfully completed the ITF Coaching High Performance Players Course.
Anne is a consultant to a number of sport organisations around the world. She has designed and developed PTR's 3 strand and 3 tier accredited Coach Education pathway for coaches in the US and worldwide. She currently trains tennis coaches in different academies worldwide. Anne has published a number of articles and book chapters on player and coach development. Her PhD is concerned with effective talent ID and development, with the result that she specializes in developing effective training programmes for junior players with potential . Anne was the LTA's Coach Education Director before moving to join USTA, initially as Manager of Coaching Education before becoming consultant for USTA's 10u program.
Ruben Neyens
Ruben Neyens has a degree in Physical education and works for the Flemish Tennis Federation since 2008. He started as a consultant to support the tennis clubs. He combined this job with physical coach for the U12. Since 2013 he is head of club development and is responsible for programs like KidsTennis, Start to Tennis, Youth Fund, Club management. Together with a team Ruben coordinates the link between the federation and the clubs. He provides clubs with direct feedback, evaluates clubs each year and assists the development of tennis players at each level. He is co-author of the manual KidsTennis and developed the physical coach manual an several other coach education programs. He has also been a speaker at national and international conferences. He started his career in his own town Tessenderlo as head coach and club manager at the local tennis club. Since then Tessenderlo is one of the leading tennis clubs in Flanders.
Stuart Miller
Stuart Miller is the Senior Executive Director of Integrity & Development at the ITF. Stuart joined the ITF in 2001, from Leeds Metropolitan University, where he was Course Leader of the BSc Sport and Exercise Science degree. Stuart obtained a BSc in Sports Science at Crewe + Alsager College, which he followed with an MSc in biomechanics from Salford University, and his PhD in neuromuscular biomechanics from Manchester Metropolitan University. In addition to the ITF's integrity-related matters, Stuart oversees the ITF's Development Department, which is responsible for the development of tennis across the world. A keen sportsman, Stuart played basketball in the English National League for Warrington.
Matthew Perry
Matthew is the recently appointed Education and Training Manager at the Tennis Integrity Unit. He has a degree in Sports and Exercise Sciences and a strong education background having qualified as a teacher of Physical Education and taught in a renowned London secondary school for four years. On leaving teaching, Matthew joined UK Anti-Doping and spent five years leading, managing and developing education programmes in partnership with sports governing bodies for athletes, coaches, sports practitioners and school children. He was responsible for a world leading values based education programme developed with the British Olympic Association and sat on the Council of Europe expert group for anti-doping education, influencing policy and practice across the sports industry.
Brian Hainline
Brian Hainline, M.D., is Chief Medical Officer of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which is the national governing body of varsity college sports for 1100 schools and 500,000 athletes. As the NCAA’s first Chief Medical Officer, Brian oversees the NCAA Sport Science Institute, a national center of excellence whose mission is to promote and develop safety, excellence, and wellness in college student-athletes, and to foster life-long physical and mental development. The NCAA Sport Science Institute works collaboratively with member institutions and Centers of Excellence across the United States.
Jofre Porta popularly known for having had professional relationships with Carlos Moya and Rafa Nadal, is much more than that. Scholar and tennis philosopher devotes a large part of his time and effort to researching how to empower players.
It has been a long time since he started with this tennis and after a long baggage now counts, among others, with experiences such as having accompanied tennis player Carlos Moyá (n1 ATP 1999) around the world for five years.
Many have been players who have been interested in their work and have hired their Coach services, has given training-knowledge to many young people, some talented children, such as Carlos Moya himself, with whom he was just over ten years or Rafa Nadal who (along with Toni Nadal) was training for eight years when he was the director of the Balearic Islands Technological Center (EBE).
He has been captain of the Spanish tennis team in the Nations Cup (Dussendolf 2011); has been for three years in the competition groups of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation; He has been a Member of the Training Committee of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation, a Nike consultant for two years, an advisor in the Master's Degree in Tennis taught by the University of Valencia, etc. He is a national coach for the Spanish Tennis Federation, he has collaborated as a sports commentator on IB3 TV, as a technical advisor in companies such as Tennis4theworld, Itusa, Dartfish and many others.
Currently his main project is the International Tennis Academy Global Tennis Team, where he develops and puts into practice everything he has learned and applies the JofrePorta methodology; a methodology with a life of its own that it continues to develop together with its research projects applied to sports.
Miguel Crespo is the Participation and Research Manager of the Development Department of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). As such, he is in charge of directing the training program for coaches of the International Tennis Federation. He has participated in Symposiums and Congresses on tennis and sports sciences in more than 70 countries around the world. He also coordinates and writes the texts for the different training courses and is the editor of the ITF Coaching and Sport Science Review, the official ITF publication on training and sports sciences applied to tennis, which is published in English, French and Spanish.
He is director of the "Research Group in Coaching and Sport Science" of the International Tennis Federation and belongs to other research groups related to tennis, such as Motor Behavior at the Miguel Hernández University in Elche and Tennis Sciences of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation.
Miguel has also been a professor of the Bachelor of Science in Physical Activity and Sports at the Catholic University of Valencia where he taught the subjects of Initiation to Tennis and Sports English.
Miguel is a member of the Editorial Committee of the ITF Coaching and Sport Science Review, of the International Tennis Federation (ITF); of the STMS Journal, of the Tennis Science and Medicine Society (STMS); and of E-coach, of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation (RFET). In addition, he is a member of the Working Group of the Superior Council of Sports (CSD) for the elaboration of the titles of sports lessons of the modality and specialties of Tennis.
Among his positions in the management and management of international sport, the fact that Miguel is Treasurer of the International Council for Coach Education (ICCE) and member of the Board of Directors of the European Coaching Council (ECC) stands out.
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