Friday, 18 March, 2011 7:03 pm
About Gabe
- Trained eight #1 and twenty six top 10 players in the world (Agassi, Courrier, Sampras, Seles, Sharapova, Jankovic, Rios, Nishikori, Kournikova, Haas, Malisse, Arias, Krickstein, Henri Mathieu, Bassett, Bonder, Massu, Golovin, Lisicki, Vaidisova, Weathon, Mirnyi, Hadad, Zuluaga, Reggi, Levine, Jackson, Knowles, Sa, Britton, Lucic, Stevenson)
- Currently Tennis Director for Club Med Academies, Florida , USA
- Tennis Director IMG-Bollettieri Tennis Academy for 24 years (1985 until 2009 )
- Nick Bollettieri’s right-hand man for 30 years
- Secured millions of dollars ‘ worth of scholarships for academy students to attend top notch US Universities
- Motivational Speaker and speaker for Club Med , Discovery Channel , Worldcity CEO Group Propal , ITF World and Regional Conferences ( International Tennis Federation) , USPTA Conference and RPT Conference
- Developed the Periodization Training Method
- Assisted with the development of System 5, a world recognized tennis training system
- Coached players in all four Grand Slam events (French Open, Wimbledon, Australian Open, and US Open)
- Assisted with creating and developing IMG Academies’ multi-sport academy programs
- Master clinician. Gabe has created and developed annual clinic tours for players and coaches in 32 countries
- Instructed the largest tennis clinic ever recorded by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1995 (with Luis Mediero,president of the PTR)
- Established a worldwide Coach’s Certification Program, which is scalable to other sports
- Special advisor to the Morita Tennis Foundation in Japan and to the Hong Kong and Colombian Tennis Federation
- Created a network of sales agents in 40 countries around the world
- Recipient of multiple awards from tennis associations and clubs around the world
- Has been featured in multiple TV programs, radio shows, magazines and newspapers worldwide
- Writer for multiple tennis and business publications around the world
