Motivation is the key to success. Motivation is the key to success. And, in sport, the coach is the main motivator, and together with his/her personality, conviction, goals and motivational techniques are essential for the development of success and behaviors of the players. Motivation plays a fundamental role in the learning of skills in sports practice, and therefore, it is necessary for a good coach to develop a philosophy that allows him to grow in his profession. The decision of a coach is very important since one of the main objectives is to help and make others grow. Therefore, the ..read more

By Tatiana Batalla, Marketing department of ES Academy, Florida  On National coaches day, coaches from around the world are appreciated by all their athletes, institutions, and countries. But what do you think about it? Go back in time, when you were a young player, wearing oversized tennis shirts a backward hat grinding on the court every day. You were playing intense and long matches, traveling away from home, and staying at random hotels. When do you think about these situations, who was next to you? Your coach. At that moment you just saw him/her as your coach. A ..read more

By Tatiana Batalla and Ivette Nieto, Marketing department of ASC Florida  What makes someone a great coach? What characteristics does a great coach need to have? During the ICI courses provided at ASC, these are the questions we typically get from the participants. I believe that a better question someone can ask is: how far am I from becoming the greatest coach? In Sanchez-Casal, a coach is not only the one who feeds drills, and corrects the player’s game. The coach is the tutor, the one with the power in his/her hands to develop the game of the player. A coach is a person who is re ..read more

By Emilio Sánchez Vicario, Founder and CEO of Academia Sánchez-Casal 2020 is proving to be a strange, very strange year. What started as a new disease in a city in a small part of the world, ended up being a global pandemic. Little by little, we saw how countries were closing their borders, how citizens were staying at home. We also closed: first the academy in China, then one in Barcelona, and finally both in the USA. Yes, that was all, and still is, very strange… but not everything has been negative. We have been living new situations since January, facing uncertainty, fighting against our f ..read more

By Emilio Sanchez, CEO and Founder of the Academia Sanchez-Casal This year is our 20th year anniversary, looking back it’s amazing how fast it went, I could write pages and pages of our success and relationships with amazing people. It brings a smile to my face when I hear testimonials from past players and they talk about hard work, effort, discipline, and respect. Our mission of creating opportunities in tennis, education and life is stronger than ever and it makes me proud to look back and see that base of our success and values are still intact. Today I want to share how I start ..read more

By Emilio Sanchez, CEO and Founder of the Academia Sanchez-Casal COACHING SERIES: INTERVIEW WITH ASC BARCELONA HIGH PERFORMANCE TRAVELING COACH, VOVA NIKOLENKO I want to take this opportunity to introduce you to Vovodymyr “Vova” Nikolenko, another great traveling coach who has been on the Sanchez Casal team for many years. He started playing tennis early on at the age of 7 in his home country, Ukraine and arrived in Barcelona as a student-athlete in 2003. After high school, he decided he wanted to continue being a part of ASC and started coaching in 2006. Vova recently reached the t ..read more

By Victor Hugo Camargo, Director, Traveling Coach and Mentor at Academia Sanchez-Casal Florida The week in Mobile, Alabama went by fast and was solely concentrated on the tournament. It hit me at the trophy presentation when the announcer asked Jerry which places he liked most during his stay in Mobile, and Jerry answered, “the club was very nice”. We spent eight days in Mobile with very little time to go around and explore the town, but Jerry was cooperative and willing to sacrifice his free time because he knew he was there to win. This is the type of sacrifice a tennis player must make ..read more

Motivation is the key to success. Motivation is the key to success. And, in sport, the coach is the main motivator, and together with his personality, conviction, goals and motivational techniques are essential for the development of success and behaviors of the players. Motivation plays a fundamental role in the learning of skills in sports practice, and therefore, it is necessary for a good coach to develop a philosophy that allows him to grow in his profession. The decision of a coach is very important since one of the main objectives is to help and make others grow. Therefore, the coa ..read more

By Ritwik Chatterjee, ESIS/ASC Florida Alumnus, class of 2016 and ASC Coach It was 2014 when I first came across Academia Sanchez-Casal. I had just finished 10th grade and was frustrated with my daily life in India. I always felt like there was something holding me back and that I could perform better, both as an athlete and as a student. So, when I decided to join ASC, I came prepared to work hard and take my tennis to a new level, but what I got was truly something extraordinary. The two years I spent here was the most enriching years of my life. The quality of the tennis and fitness tr ..read more

By Emilio Sánchez Vicario, Founder and CEO of Academia Sánchez-Casal 2020 is proving to be a strange, very strange year. What started as a new disease in a city in a small part of the world, ended up being a global pandemic. Little by little, we saw how countries were closing their borders, how citizens were staying at home. We also closed: first the academy in China, then one in Barcelona, and finally both in the USA. Yes, that was all, and still is, very strange… but not everything has been negative. We have been living new situations since January, facing uncertainty, fighting against our f ..read more