THE COACHES

 🎾DAVID PANTOVIC - Owner and Founder of Pantovic Tennis Academy, Professional ATP & WTA & PTR tennis coach

David grew up in Cacak, Serbia where he started playing tennis when he was six years old. In junior tennis, he was always top 5 in Serbia. At 14, he was ranked 13 in the world; at 16, 70 in the world; at 18, 140 in the world. He was ranked 860 in the world as a professional tennis player (ATP).  David has played in hundreds of tournaments including Orange Bowl, Eddie Herr, and won the European Team Championship. He played college for Auburn University at Montgomery winning two National Titles. Since coming to the United States, David has coached players of all ages and levels including several Nationally and Internationally ranked Juniors, including the top ranked (# 1 in the world) Junior Tennis player from Serbia, Ivana Jorovic. He later coached Ivana on the pro tour as well. David was also the practice hitting coach to Ilija Bozoljac (# 101 in the world), Anderson Reed (# 300 in doubles in the world) and Novak Djokovic (# 1 in the world). David has traveled to Rome, Italy for the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour Convention where he met and attended presentations of the best doctors, professors, and coaches in tennis. He received his ATP Coaching Diploma signed and approved by Toni Nadal (coach of Rafa Nadal), Dirk Hordoff and Alberto Castellani. All 3 of these amazing coaches are good friends with David today and helping him run first class program in Alabama, USA. David also has Professional PTR(Professional Tennis Registry) Diploma for coaching as well. In 2011, David moved to Daphne, Alabama and started Point Clear Tennis Academy which later became Pantovic Tennis Academy. This Academy is the first of its kind and features some of the state’s , national’s and world's top junior and senior tennis players, as well as, high school and college team players. David is married to Victoria and they have 4 beautiful kids. 

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🎾PETAR MILCANOVIC  - Strength and Conditioning Coach

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Education

• Faculty of sport and physical Education - University Belgrade

• High school for sports coaches –department for football (soccer)

• UEFA license A level

• Curently - doctoral student

• Foreign language: English (intermediate)

• Course for massage therapist,

• participant of many educational conferences in sport.

Work experience

• FC "RAD" Belgrade 2009 -2010 - Strength and conditioning coach

• FC "BANANTS" Yerevan 2011 - Strength and conditioning coach

•  National football (soccer) team of Serbia U20  from 08.2012  until june 2015 strength and conditioning coach

• National tennis team of Serbia (Davis cup tim)  from  2013-2015 strength and conditioning coach

• Conditioning coach for individual phisyical preparation for professional athletes

• personal conditioning coach of a profesional tennis player: Jelena Jankovic,  Ilija Bozoljac  and  Filip Krajinovic

·       Additional engagement – Center for Education FSS – UEFA license – lecturer…

·       founder of  sport's union ''SPORT'S LIFE'' Belgrade

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🎾ALBERTO CASTELLANI  -  Board President, Academy Adviser and Coach

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Coach of a number of ATP Top 100 players over a period of 30 years including: Marc Rosset #9, Janko Tipsarevic #8, Ivo Karlovic #14, Hicham Arazi #22, Karim Almi #25, Adrian Voinea #36, Rainer Schuettler

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