Follow usWell-known Italian American tennis coach Nick Bollettieri has died at the age of 91, tenisworldusa.org said on Sunday.
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Bollettieri helped shape the lives of several top-ranked tennis players including Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles, the Williams Sisters, and Maria Sharapova, among others.
Despite his prolific reputation as a tennis coach, Bollettieri’s playing career was limited to him playing the sport in high school.
Bollettieri’s coaching career began at the Dorado Beach Hotel in Puerto Rico in the 60s before he began his own academy a decade later, in 1978.
The Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy was the first of its kind when it was established in Florida (Bradenton) for prior to its start, tennis players didn’t have any such place where they could stay and learn and improve on their game.
