Hi everyone!
As you know I started the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy School + Tennis program last September 2019. We’re now in January 2020 and so I’d like to present to you my class/tennis mates. What I like most is that everyone is very friendly and we all get along great. We all come from different countries and usually communicate in English. We have 3 coaches for 10 kids and we are split into sub groups of 2 or 3 or 4 players according to what the coaches want us to learn. On Fridays we usually play lots of matches between the groups, including the boys and older boys and girls.
Below you can see everyone’s names and the countries they come from and their current tennis UTR ratings as of today January 26, 2020. I’ll check in about 6 months to see how we all progressed.
On the photo, from left to right:
Sim Sipahioglu (Turkey)
Tippi Dalle-Grave (Mauritius)
Anicia Hammoud (Netherlands + Finland)
Francesca Saroli (Switzerland + USA + Russia)
Anelle Tait (Canada + Kazakhstan)
Hanako Kasai (Japan)
Zarina Tait (Canada + Kazakhstan)
Simone Ostergaard (Denmark)
Olga Danilova (Cyprus + Russia)
Lila Bachour (Lebanon)
(technically it’s in Sophia Antipolis, very close to Biot)
UPDATE July 11, 2020: The rankings of the group as of today
Update April 11, 2024, 4 years and 3 months after the initial posted ratings. Only 3 players have been able to pass 8 UTR and only 2 passed 9 UTR. It’s by no means easy. Some players are still at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy (Lila, Sim and I), some moved to individual training (Olga), some moved to other tennis academies in France or in the USA. Congratulations to my friend Lila Bachour for the top rating increase in these 4 years. We wish everyone a successful continued tennis career, or to get accepted to the college of their choice, if they want to play tennis in college in the USA.
