Founding director of the Margaret Court Tennis Academy, producing 27 National Junior Champions, 22 US College Scholarship holders, 4 current Tennis Australia/TNSW staff, Order of Australia winner for charity work in Asia, father of 3 children (2/3 who work in tennis) and junior coach of the world’s fastest server and former ATP singles #53 and doubles #24 Sam Groth.

Craig Cignarelli is one of America’s most prolific player development coaches.  With six #1 ranked national players and a five-year stint coaching at the tour level, Craig has worked with players at every stage of the game. With insight stemming from time with Robert Lansdorp, Pancho Segura, Paul Annacone and Eliot Teltscher, his emphasis on tactical structure makes him unique among conventional coaches.

A Physical Performance Coach and the Academy Manager for Tennis Australia, Adelaide. Alistair has recently completed his PhD in exercise science, specialising in high performance youth development and competition preparation for tennis. Alistair is currently responsible for the design and delivery of the physical performance program of the National Academy in Adelaide. The program is designed to specifically tailor long-term athletic development for over 45 junior tennis players, ranging from 8 years through to 18 years, club level through to International juniors within the National Academy.

A Lead Physical Performance Coach for Tennis Australia, Queensland. Mark has a degree in Strength and Conditioning Science from St Mary’s University, London, and has been accredited with the UK Strength and Conditioning Association since 2009. He spent two years at a regional high performance centre, developing their Strength and Conditioning program, before spending six years at the National Tennis Centre for the LTA. He has worked with leading singles and doubles players, including Johanna Konta. He then moved to the British Swimming National Training Centre, working with elite Olympic athletes and Rio gold medallist, before taking the plunge and moving to Tennis Australia.

After a pro tennis career with a WTA ranking high of 304, Jaslyn has continued a lifelong passion for High Performance sport by exceling at a number of different roles, primarily in tennis.  After spending time as a remedial masseuse for the Port Adelaide Football Club, Jaslyn worked as both the tennis and strength & conditioning coach in the South Australia National Academy before moving to Canberra to work in the Australian Institute of Sports Pro-Tour Program.  In 2009 Jaslyn relocated to Sydney where she is currently both the National Academy and Talent Development Manager for NSW and is in the final stages of completing the Tennis Australia High Performance Coaching Course.

Ryan obtained his Bachelor of Physiotherapy, before continuing on to complete his Masters in Exercise Science (Strength and Conditioning). A Tennis Australia Club Professional Coach, Ryan has worked with junior through to elite athletes, as the National Academy (Melbourne) physiotherapist, as well as being an Australian Open physiotherapist for the male athletes.

Nathan Martin has been at the forefront of worldwide tennis fitness conditioning for the past 16 years. He has helped players of all levels from grand slam champions to social hitters and school kids reach their potential through improved physical performance, injury reduction and ongoing education. Nathan was the long standing strength and conditioning trainer for Lleyton Hewitt, spending time preparing him for the Australian summer of tennis for 10 successive years. Nathan has co authored a book “Building a tennis champion”, created an app in conjunction with Lleyton Hewitt “Lleyton Hewitt Tennis Fitness Pro”, is a course facilitator for Tennis Australia (Club Pro), and he runs his own strength and conditioning studio in Sydney. Nathan’s passion is to see players reach their physical potential, through education, application and support.

Danielle is a Sport Science and Athlete Development Analyst at Tennis Australia. Her role includes managing the National Academy athlete management system as well as undertaking internal and external research. Part of her research portfolio includes reviewing the junior and professional tennis structure worldwide in partnership with the International Tennis Federation. Danielle is also the the Australian Fed Cup team manager. She is currently undertaking her PhD at Tennis Australia and Australian Catholic University with her research topic exploring the relationship of training loads, musculoskeletal function and shoulder injuries in elite, youth tennis players.

Howard has been the Head of Strength & Conditioning at USN Bolton Arena High Performance Tennis Academy for 8 years. He is an accredited S&C coach with the UKSCA, a Certified Tennis Performance Specialist with the iTPA and has a First Class Hons degree in Sports Coaching – including several coaching qualifications. Prior to coaching Howard spent 6 years in the Royal Marines Commandos, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Howard has experience preparing Professional and Junior players at WTA, ATP, ITF and Tennis Europe levels, most notably working with world number one Ana Ivanovic. Howard has his own training philosophy and methodology, which takes into account both the general and specific physical qualities needed. He also places a high amount of importance in training coordination abilities to enhance movement performance.

Nick is the founder and director of BreakPoint Analysis, a nationally recognised video analysis company that provides video analysis services to junior and aspiring professional players. In his four years at BreakPoint Analysis, Nick has filmed approximately 40,000 matches at over 200 tournaments, and provided data driven solutions to help players and businesses improve through the power of video. Nick is a Club Professional coach, with a Bachelor in Exercise Science and a Master of Management from Melbourne University, where he currently runs the tennis program. Previous roles at Tennis Australia saw him provide video analysis to Sam Stosur, and help create and develop the Tennis Australia Technique App.

Voyager Tennis Academy has more than 40 program graduates who have achieved U.S. College tennis scholarships and currently trains over 100 nationally ranked players in Sydney. Voyager was founded in 2011 by Ryan Henry and Luke Bourgeois. As juniors both Ryan and Luke both achieved a world number 1 ranking in doubles and were top 20 in singles and have extensive experience on the ATP Tour. Throughout their careers have had wins over players such as Jo Wilfred Tsonga, Thomas Berdych, Andy Murray and David Ferrer.
Voyager Tennis Academy, runs programs across 6 sites in Sydney with more than 20 coaches and has been developed with the specific objective to enable more students to further both their education and development as a tennis players at U.S. Colleges.

Natalie Deane is an author, mental coach, clinical hypnotherapist and strength and conditioning coach.  Natalie has been coaching clients for over 20 years and has worked with hundreds of athletes all over Australia, including Olympians, World Champions and National teams.

Greg Royle is currently Director of Tennis at Newington College, and Presbyterian Ladies’ College Sydney. He is a Tennis Australia High Performance Coach, but has had a broad experience coaching players from Hotshots to Performance level. He is a former school teacher, Tennis NSW State Coach/NSWIS Head Coach and has worked both domestically and internationally, as a coach, coach educator, and athlete/program manager.  He is still active as a Tennis Australia Learning Facilitator.

Nick is a development coach, who specialises in helping young children on a performance tennis pathway. Nick has worked in Talent Identification for both the LTA and Wimbledon, and was previously Head Coach of two High Performance academies in the UK. Nick has developed multiple national champions in both Europe and New Zealand, many of these players have achieved tennis scholarship’s at major universities, and many have also gone on to play on the world tour.

Ian Renshaw is a Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Ian has coached sport for 30 years. His research interests include ecological dynamics; nonlinear pedagogy; sports coaching and the links between skill acquisition and performance psychology. Ian delivers coach education for Skill Acquisition and Game Sense to coaches across a range of sports and has worked as a consultant for community and elite sports programmes across a number of sports. He recently co-edited: Motor learning in practice: A constraints-led approach. And is currently leading the writing of a book series on the Constraint-led Approach which aims to strengthen the3 links between theory and practice.

Clint is the Tennis Australia Talent Development Manager in Queensland. Clint previously worked as a private coach, producing 8 National Singles Champions, and was a Tournament Director for numerous Pro Tour and Junior ITF events. He is a former winner of the National Talent Development Coaching Excellence Award, a 4-time finalist at the National Awards and 4-time winner of the Queensland Coaching Excellence Award.

Greg began coaching wheelchair tennis in the late 1980s. One of the first competitors he coached was Daniela Di Toro, who took up the sport when she was thirteen years old at Crump’s suggestion. He was the coach of the Australian national teams in 1996 Atlanta Paralympics, 2000 Sydney, (winning Gold in the men’s singles and Silver in both the men’s and women’s doubles), 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing and the 2012 London. Crump has been coach at numerous WTC winning the Men’s in Nottingham, Paris and Italy and also winning the women’s WTC beating the highly favoured team from the Netherland’s in New York in 1999. Greg is currently the National Academy Wheelchair Coach for Tennis Australia.

David Sammel, Head Tennis Coach at TeamBath-MCTA, creator of Locker Room Power (LRP) and widely espected consultant across professional sport. David has over 25 years’ experience in world tennis, coaching international players to career high rankings who represented their countries in The Federation Cup, Davis Cup and the Olympics. David is an official ATP Coach member in recognition of his many years on tour. In the past he has been a regular contributor to interviews by the UK tennis media including BBC Radio 5, BBC local radio, The Times, SkySports and he is a contributing editor for Leaders in Performance and Tennishead Magazines.

Professor Alexander Ferrauti is dean of the Faculty of Sports Science at the Ruhr University of Bochum (Germany). He is professor for training science and head of the Department of Training and Exercise Science. His special working fields are training and testing and energy metabolism. He published numerous papers and textbooks related to tennis in theory and practice. He is scientific Consultant of the German Tennis Federation and A Level Tennis Coach.