The Speakers
Michael Ebert, Austria
Founder tennis4kids
Michael Ebert has been working with children and young people of all levels in tennis for over 35 years. He regularly gives lectures at international congresses and symposiums, especially in the area of “Kids Tennis”.
He was responsible for the youth division of the Austrian Tennis Association for a long time and is considered one of the leading teachers for children's and youth tennis.
Luigi Bertino, Italy
Italian Tennis and Padel Federation (FITP)
Professional Tennis Registry (PTR)
Luigi Bertino is National Coach FITP and PTR International Master Pro. He is Director of Education for PTR Italy and Professor of Coach Training for the Italian Tennis and Padel Federation.
Since 1992 he has been Director of World Class Training at the Van der Meer Tennis University in Marling and of some of Italy's most important clubs and academies such as Le Pleiadi Tennis, Tennis Club Monviso and Stampa Sporting Torino.
From 2018 to 2022 he was also director of the Piatti Tennis Center in Bordighera. Luigi Bertino's main focus is on player development programs for juniors and research into teaching methods for tennis under 10 years. He has written numerous articles for various tennis magazines and has been a speaker at many international tennis conferences.
Donato Campagnoli, Italy
Italian Tennis and Padel Federation (FITP)
Donato Campagnoli is a freelance consultant for the Italian Tennis Federation (FIT), and is in charge of the international relationships with other federations/governing bodies of tennis since 2014.
Donato is a private consultant providing leadership/education services for coaches and management services for tennis facilities and companies, he owns hellstennis.coach, a website delivering information and educational background for professionals in the Tennis Sector. He is a Coach of pro players at his academy for more than 15 years travelling internationally for Futures, Challengers and ATP tournaments.
He has a college degree as a professional interpreter (speaking 5 languages) at the University of Bologna and a Masters degree in Economics.
Michael Lammer, Switzerland
Swiss Tennis
Michael is 42 years young and is working at Swiss Tennis since September 2015. First in the role of U15 youth manager and since June 2020 as head coach. Previously, he was a professional player on the tour for 13 years and was part of the Swiss winning team of the Davis Cup 2014. He is an A-Trainer Swiss Tennis and federal qualified professional trainer Swiss Olympic. In addition to tennis, Michael has completed his high school diploma and a bachelor's degree in business management.
His main tasks at Swiss Tennis are (not exhaustive):
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Leading the national coaching team
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Responsible for organizing the training operations at the NLZ Biel
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Responsibility for selections national squad A/B/C
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Operational implementation of Swiss Tennis’s youth development concept
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Responsible for awarding wildcards at international tournaments in Switzerland in the U18 and ITF Pro areas
Pablo Andujar, Spain
ATP Tour
Pablo Andujar was a professional tennis player (best ATP 32). At the age of 37 years, he retired from active tennis in 2023.
Pablo Andujar leaves the game with four ATP Tour titles (Casablanca 2011 and 2012, Gstaad 2014 and Marrakech 2018) and a further five finals (Bucharest 2010 and 2011, Stuttgart 2011, Barcelona 2015 and Marrakech 2019). In 2015, in the midst of his strongest period, he peaked at No. 32 at the ATP Rankings.
Pablo works now as Player Representative for the ATP Tour.
Øivind Sorvald, Norway
Northway Tennis Federation
Oivind Sorvald has been the Director of Development for the Norwegian Tennis Association for more than 30 years. He was the Director of Tennis for the Van der Meer Tennis and has been a PTR Coach Developer since 1992. Oivind was awarded PTR Member of the Year in 2014. He is a level 3 Professional and has coached players for more than 40 years.
He is a tennis analyst and a technical and tactical specialist for the past 15 years for top 10 ATP / WTA Teams, among others, he is Casper Ruud's technical coach for past 10 years.
In addition, he is tennis expert for Eurosport.
Dean Hollingworth, Canada
Master Tennis Performance Specialist
With over twenty-five years of experience as a strength and conditioning coach, Dean has established himself as a highly regarded author, speaker, and fitness and performance consultant. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and Master Tennis Performance Specialist by the International Tennis Performance Association. He is also active with Team PTR’s educational board developing course content for tennis certification programs and is on the advisory board of RacquetFit. He has recently published the Baselinepower video series, which addresses all aspects of fitness training for tennis players. Dean is currently the Director of fitness and sports performance at Club Sportif Cote-de-Liesse in Montreal, where he works primarily with high performance tennis players. He has worked with all levels of tennis players including, ATP and WTA players that have included a Grand Slam champion, Olympic gold medalist and a 1# ranked doubles player. In 2022, Dean received the Volunteer of the Year award from PTR for all his outstanding work and selfless dedication.
Tamas Bogyo, Hungary
Head Coach at Nexon Dunakeszi Tennis Club
Tamas has dedicated his life to coaching tennis and runs programs for tennis coaches worldwide.He is an official spokesman for GPTCA, PTR, USTA and BTCA. Over the last 3 years he has been a speaker at conferences in more than 20 different countries.In addition, Tamas was the coach of some top 100 WTA and ATP players such as Zsáfia Gubacsi, Rita Kuti Kis or Attila Sávolt.He was also the Hungarian ITF Elite Team Coach from 2012 to 2015.In 2018 he was part of Denis Shapovalov's team with his Davis Cup player Peter Nagy throughout the clay season.
Simone Bertino, Italy
Italian Tennis and Padel Federation (FITP)
Simone Bertino is National Coach of Italian Tennis Federation (Maestro Nazionale Tennis FITP) and Professional PTR, with ten-years’ experience in video analysis, biomechanics and match analysis.
Since 2016 he works with the Italian Tennis Federation as professor of video and match analysis. In 2021 he started the collaboration with Supertennis TV for live broadcast during Italian tournaments.
Finally, he collaborates with several Academies and Tennis Clubs, especially with Galimberti Tennis Academy, in Cattolica (Italy) and worked also for over a year for Mouratoglou Analytics as match, data and technical analyst for the players of the Academy.
He is also a speaker for PTR Italy for the Tennis Analysis and Performance Analyst Workshops, new Biomec courses and PTR Italian Forum.
Carl Maes, Belgium
WTA Coach, International Tennis Consultant, TV Commentator, Coach Education and Mentoring
Carl Maes is best known for coaching the former world No. 1 Kim Clijsters for over a decade. Carl was also Academy Director of the Kim Clijsters Academy for 6 years. The academy trained international junior and professional players from 62 different countries. Several professional players like Elise Mertens, Sorana Cirstea, Kimmer Coppejans, were under his supervision at the academy and even Kei Nishikori was training there for a few weeks. Carl has extensive experience in both working on and off court for international academies as well as governing bodies. Carl holds a master degree in Sport Science, worked for the LTA as head of women’s but also led the 2006 Belgium Fed Cup team to the final. He is currently living in Spain with his family and works as a self- employed tennis consultant.