European Academies Feedback for Professional Development

[Tennis_JN]

My kid is 12 Years old and we have been considering getting her trained in a European academy where she can build her tennis professionally.

However I am finding it very difficult to get a genuine comparison of pros & cons of academies to understand which academies can help build a genuine professional tennis.

Please can few of you provide your reviews about academies like Mouratoglou, Rafa, JC Ferrero, Piatti, Elite, Alexandre Waske, Good to Great, Justin Henin and any others which have built professional players!

Any suggestions and comparisons provided will be great to know!

 

[Sardines]

I personally would not go Mouratoglou in Boit. We looked at it and spoke with coaches there. My approach was to pay for a lesson, since we were in the neighborhood, and see what they can see and develop, without telling them our ranking. and told them we were interested in attending the academy. I was surprised they didn't bother to ask about ITF rankings etc. Disappointed in how they approached coaching juniors. It was more feel good you can hit a fed ball and not true competition training style. And I had my kid purposely make some subtle errors to see if the coach could catch it, and he didn't. For the money, it's not worth the time, even though the courts and academy facilities were very good.
Piatti facilities are not as nice as Mouratoglou but are good. We audited the place, but was ultimately nixed by my wife, who didn't like that too masculine oriented, including the trainers and physios. There were a lot more male students than female.

 

[Tennis_JN]

Thank you so much Sardines. That’s a good comparison between both the academies. Have been seeing better reviews of Piatti consistently as you too suggested

Wonder if there are others who could also give their reviews about Rafa, Elite, Henin and others as such

 

[Tennis_JN]

Bumping this for more reviews and suggestions!