This blog series aims to present our coaching team by showing how they work with players on specific aspects crucial for the game of tennis. Today we would like to focus on Fernando Gouveia, who is another head coach at our academy in addition to Jordane Doble and Alejandro Cadenas. We have known Fernando for many years. Before becoming one of our head coaches, he worked with us during our summer camps. It is a great pleasure to have him on our team. Being a sport science graduate, Fernando is always full of creative ideas based in his educational background. He has an unbelievable passion for ..read more

With spring just around the corner and Easter holidays approaching, it might be the perfect moment to start planning out and join one of our weekly programmes. Easter is this time of the year when numerous players from around the world visit our academy to enjoy some tennis in the beautiful spring season by the seaside. Spring is simply outstanding for playing tennis here, with temperatures ranging from around 20 degrees with plenty of sunshine. For every age group, we have something special. Our full-time programme is physically more demanding with four hours of tennis and one hour of fitness ..read more

In February, we had the pleasure to guest at our academy players and coaching team from the Campus Tenis Academy from Sète in France. They were visiting our tennis academy for a week of intensive training. We organised for them a full-time training programme consisting of morning drills, fitness sessions, afternoon matchplay and tournaments. The group stayed in a nearby hotel just a five-minute walk away from our club. After training, they enjoyed their free time on our stunning beach - Playa Castelldefels. Our team did their best to push them on the court and at the same time make them feel c ..read more

This week we have had the pleasure to welcome at our tennis academy a group of ten girls from the Sutton Tennis Academy in England and their coaches. The girls have a personalised group programme of match play. We arranged for them matches against our academy players so that they can test their clay court skills against a variety of opponents. Such a set-up gives them plenty of opportunities to work on their game tactics for both singles and doubles as well as practise their movement and footwork on clay. Playing matches on this surface calls for specific tactical choices and differs signific ..read more

Meet one of our head coaches Jordane Doble, with whom we have been working for about 8 years now. Jordane is not only an experienced coach with 15 years of work with players, but also he has been incredibly successful as a tennis player. He reached the ATP ranking of 385 in singles and 302 in doubles. Overall, he won seven Futures tournaments (10.000$ and 15.000$) in singles and three in doubles. In addition, he stayed in France’s top 50 for eight years, his best French ranking being No.35. For this blog series presenting our coaching team, we have decided to show how our coaches work on spec ..read more

The beginning of January marks the start of a preseason at our tennis academy. The preseason normally lasts about 4 weeks, which precede the onset of a series of tournaments for our players. It is time dedicated to intense work on physical conditioning to prepare the players for their oncoming matches. Some of our players will be travelling to tournaments in Mallorca, Tunisia and Turkey. Others will be playing local Federation tournaments. We want them all to start the new year with intensity and ready to perform at their optimal level. In preseason fitness training our coaches continue to wor ..read more

Happy Holidays from our BTA Team! Our brand new Newsletter with the Season’s Greetings is out!!! https://www.btatennis.com/campaigns/view-campaign/gqKLZvBSW3hO4YUM-Ls6woUXSM8WoWoKqxaZAsLjARh3kL4JgDa3joIAQ8TjkIKPkgevMdEtroVk_W7MC9RwK4ToAnUjsuba ..read more

One of the greatest assets we add to our everyday training is coached practice match play. Our daily programme consists of 2 hours of match play in the afternoon. This provides plenty of opportunities to learn from matches every single day as our coaches offer feedback and guidelines to our players both in-between points and immediately after matches. The approach ties in neatly with the idea of inattention blindness and the famous experiment of Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons called ‘the Invisible Gorilla Test’. In the experiment the subjects were asked to count various passes of a bas ..read more

Once per week our players have a fitness training session on the beach, which is one of the greatest benefits our amazing location has to offer. Training on sand is a great form resistance training vastly improving players’ endurance. One study found out a positive influence of sand on players’ plyometric training (Hammmami et al. 2020, BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation), the main findings being the improvement of sprint speeds, change of direction scores  as well as players’ dynamic and static balance. Getting ready for the agility training on the Playa Castelldefels The f ..read more

“I was born on November 2nd, 1998 in Barcelona, Spain. Coming from a sportive family, my dad was a waterpolo coach, reaching the Olympics on 1992 as a coach.  I’ve decided to play tennis at 6 years old, since then, never stopped.  When I was 12 years old, I started to compite on important competitions, such as, Catalunya Championships, and Spain Championships, where I played singles, dobles, and teams, representing Club Tennis Barcino, one of the best well known tennis clubs from Spain.  Also, I was able to travel around Europe, and play some Tennis Europes on singles.  On ..read more