Hi! Do you guys know who NICOLAS BOLLETTIERI is?

Question

I've been researching and still cant find adequate information about him. All I know is that he is a coach, and that's it. I hope you guys could help me. Thank you in advance and God bless! :)

Answer 1

Nick Bollettieri is involved with tennis. He owns the Bollettieri Tennis Acamedy in Bradenton, Florida.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bollet...

Nicholas James Bollettieri (b. July 31, 1931 in Pelham, New York) is an American tennis coach who is credited with developing many world-class champions, including Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles, and Mary Pierce. Recently, he has worked with 2006 U.S. Open champion Maria Sharapova, Jelena Janković, and Nicole Vaidišová. He has also worked with Tommy Haas, Max Mirnyi, Xavier Malisse, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Martina Hingis, and Marcelo Rios. He also coached Boris Becker for two years.

Nick Bollettieri graduated in 1953 from Spring Hill College (Mobile, Alabama) with a degree in philosophy. After serving with the United States Army, attaining the rank of First Lieutenant, he turned in 1956 to teaching tennis after dropping out of the University of Miami Law School. Bollettieri's first students included Sheryl Smith and Brian Gottfried. His first formal tennis camp was at Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

Bollettieri was the tennis director at Dorado Beach Hotel in Puerto Rico in the early-mid 1970s when it was a Rockefeller resort. His main assistant coach there was Julio Moros, who followed Nick when he set up his academy in Bradenton.

Moving to Longboat Key, Florida in 1977, Bollettieri served as an instructor for the Colony Beach and Tennis Resort. In 1981, Bollettieri opened the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida on 40 acres (769,000 m²) in unincorporated Manatee County on the west coast of Florida, about fifty miles south of Tampa. The Academy was purchased by IMG in 1987, but Bollettieri continues to manage and play a pivotal role in the development of the tennis academy and ancillary programs.

On May 18th, 2008, Nick Bollettieri was honored at the New York College of Health Professions with an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters for his contribution to the world of sports, fitness, and wellness. Nick also served as Commencement Speaker to over one thousand attendees at the College’s Commencement ceremony.

Bollettieri continues with teaching and public speaking engagements throughout the world. He is instruction editor of Tennis Magazine and has written an autobiography, My Aces, My Faults, with d**k Schaap. New York: HarperCollins (1996). Hardcover: ISBN 0-380-97306-5, ISBN 978-0-380-97306-4. New York: Avon Books (1997). Paperback: ISBN 0-380-78723-7, ISBN 978-0-38078-723-4.

In 2004, Nick and his wife, Cindi, founded the non-profit fitness camp, Camp Kaizen. It is a five week summer fitness camp which is run in Vermont for overweight girls between the ages of 9 and 14.

Bollettieri married Cindi (Eaton) Bollettieri on April 22, 2004. Bollettieri has five grown children (one son and four daughters), two granddaughters, and one grandson.[

About the academy:

So the academy now supplements its basic 5-plus-hour-a-day adult camps with an optional "Pro Max Performance" program that addresses every aspect of the game, from technique and tactics to fitness, mental toughness, nutrition, and more. What hasn't changed is the demanding regimen, which makes this one of truly hard-core boot camps on the planet.

"Our program is more stroke technique and drills than playing," says director Chip Brooks, who took over the adult program in 1994 after 17 years of working with the Bollettieri juniors and traveling with pros, Boris Becker among them. "Our philosophy is we want to work within your style. If you look at all the players on the tour out there, they hit the ball in lots of different ways but there are some things everyone does, like preparation and recovery, so that's what we stress in our teaching." That and the "modern game."

"The buzz now with adults is the modern game," Brooks notes, adding that it's what they've been teaching for 15 years. "When adults hear that, they think they have to change their grip; but they don't. It's just stance and preparation." The Bollettieri adult academy also adopts an approach called "System 5," which divides the court into five zones from deep behind the baseline to the net and then looks at how you alter your strokes and game depending on where you are on court.

On my last visit, there were four of us on court with Moroccan-born Mohammed Chaouqi: a Russian, whose daughter is in the junior program and who himself comes for weeks at a time; a New York City dermatologist; an Atlantan; and me. Chaouqi began by feeding a series of forehands to us on the baseline, and it was not long before he began to chastise us for walking rather than running to the end of the line. Throughout the morning he wove no-nonsense critiques of repeated errors with reminders about technique ("Load up on that right leg, Roger," he often told me as we worked on open-stance forehands). The drills were fast-paced, at times to the point of testing our endurance (the Russian, still on a distant time zone, occasionally held up his hand and stopped, having had enough). We took breaks for water and to pick up balls.

The routine was repeated in the afternoon, though we lost the Atlantan, who'd opted for half days, so there were more two-on-one drills and and some playing situations. Although normally you have a different pro each session, we ended up with Chaouqi again. Toward the end of the day, each of us was subjected to a classic "kamikaze drill" as Chaouqi stood just inside the baseline and hand-tossed balls right and left forcing us to hit a forehand, quickly recover and scamper left for a backhand and back the other way, a series that went on for 20 or 30 balls at a time.

At different times, each of us was pulled off the court individually to be videoed, then sent back with a visual image of what we need to be doing. "The people who come down know they are going to get a good workout," Brooks says, "and our staff genuinely cares about helping them improve."

Tennis Programs. Although the Academy offers half-day and single-day options, it makes sense to set aside at least three days in order to work on all aspects of your game. If you do, you'll have two options: the "Mini Week" and the "Pro Max Performance"

Mini Week: This program begins each morning with half an hour of dynamic stretching following by 2½ hours of intensive work primarily on technical skills and footwork, focusing on a different cluster of shots each day. Then after lunch, the sessions address offense and defense, specialty shots, and tactics. At 4 p.m. when the sessions end, the courts are available for free play and matches.

Pro Max Performance: Available in 3-day and 5-day modules, the Pro Max program includes the same on-court work as the regular adult program but adds daily ½-hour private lessons; an in-depth assessment of your speed, strength and agility and a workout program to improve weaknesses conducted by the professional staff of the academy's International Performance Institute; a sports psychology session using a videotaped match to assess your mental strengths and weaknesses; sports massages; and three meals daily in the clubhouse.Courts & Fees. There are 56 courts at the Academy (35 hard, 17 clay courts and 4 indoor courts). Court fees: None.

Caveat: Don't underestimate the demands of a 5-hour-a-day program. (When's the last time you played for five hours let alone drilled?) Anything and everything you can do to get in shape before coming down will help. Make sure the shoes you bring are well broken in and comfortable.

The once spartan lodging at the Academy has been replaced by a series of brand-new 2- and 3-bedroom condominiums with kitchens. The second or third bedrooms can be rented separately, and every bedroom has its own flat-screen plasma television, coffee maker, in-room safe, and free high-speed Internet access. All are a short distance from the main clubhouse, which has a small swimming pool and outdoor Jacuzzi.

Alternatively, you you have a broad choice of places to bed down locally, including several near the Bradenton airport. IMG Academies also has special rates for participants at the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota.

Answer 2

World famous coach, he's coached andre agassi, maria sharapova, kei nishikori, jim courier, monica seles and many others. His program is now run by IMG. The Bradenton location specifically is run in conjunction with the University of Miami's High school online. He's probably one of the most notable coaches in tennis.

Answer 3

You can find all sorts of info on google. Nick Bollettieri tennis academy. His tennis academy is one of the best in the world. Sampras, Agassi, Courier, Tommy Haas, Sharapova, Nicole Vaidisova, a buch of the top players attended his academy. It's in Bradenton, FL.

Answer 4

Sure, he's a famous tennis coach, who gets a lot of credit for turning already extremely talented tennis players into good, professional players.  In a way, he's sort of like the Phil Jackson (if you follow the NBA) of tennis.  Phil Jackson has won lots of NBA Championships, which greatly inflates his record.  But, how hard is it to win Championships when you're coaching a team that has Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, and Toni Kukoc?  Or, coaching another team that has Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant?

How hard was it to turn already great junior tennis players like Agassi, Courier, and Seles into successful professionals?

Answer 5

Nicholas James Bollettieri (b. July 31, 1931 in Pelham, New York) is an American tennis coach who is credited with developing many world-class champions, including Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles, and Mary Pierce. Recently, he has worked with 2006 U.S. Open champion Maria Sharapova, Jelena Janković, and Nicole Vaidišová. He has also worked with Tommy Haas, Max Mirnyi, Xavier Malisse, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Martina Hingis, and Marcelo Rios. He also coached Boris Becker for two years.

Nick Bollettieri graduated in 1953 from Spring Hill College (Mobile, Alabama) with a degree in philosophy. After serving with the United States Army, attaining the rank of First Lieutenant, he turned in 1956 to teaching tennis after dropping out of the University of Miami Law School. Bollettieri's first students included Sheryl Smith and Brian Gottfried. His first formal tennis camp was at Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

Bollettieri was the tennis director at Dorado Beach Hotel in Puerto Rico in the early-mid 1970s when it was a Rockefeller resort. His main assistant coach there was Julio Moros, who followed Nick when he set up his academy in Bradenton.

Moving to Longboat Key, Florida in 1977, Bollettieri served as an instructor for the Colony Beach and Tennis Resort. In 1981, Bollettieri opened the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida on 40 acres (769,000 m²) in unincorporated Manatee County on the west coast of Florida, about fifty miles south of Tampa. The Academy was purchased by IMG in 1987, but Bollettieri continues to manage and play a pivotal role in the development of the tennis academy and ancillary programs.

On May 18th, 2008, Nick Bollettieri was honored at the New York College of Health Professions with an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters for his contribution to the world of sports, fitness, and wellness. Nick also served as Commencement Speaker to over one thousand attendees at the College’s Commencement ceremony.

Bollettieri continues with teaching and public speaking engagements throughout the world. He is instruction editor of Tennis Magazine and has written an autobiography, My Aces, My Faults, with d**k Schaap. New York: HarperCollins (1996). Hardcover: ISBN 0-380-97306-5, ISBN 978-0-380-97306-4. New York: Avon Books (1997). Paperback: ISBN 0-380-78723-7, ISBN 978-0-38078-723-4.

In 2004, Nick and his wife, Cindi, founded the non-profit fitness camp, Camp Kaizen. It is a five week summer fitness camp which is run in Vermont for overweight girls between the ages of 9 and 14.

Bollettieri married Cindi (Eaton) Bollettieri on April 22, 2004. Bollettieri has five grown children (one son and four daughters), two granddaughters, and one grandson

Answer 6

he charges $500 to $800 per hour.

Answer 7

Yes....I live in Fl and am very aware of who he is....his academy is 20min from where I live....I work in the restaurant business and have waited on him and his family several times.....you can read about him at his website, just google IMG nick bollettieri bradenton fl....Hope this helps