{"id":394666,"date":"2022-11-20T10:40:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T15:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394666"},"modified":"2022-11-20T10:43:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T15:43:33","slug":"famous-tennis-coach-nick-bollettieri-passes-away-at-91","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/famous-tennis-coach-nick-bollettieri-passes-away-at-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous tennis coach Nick Bollettieri passes away at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well-known Italian American tennis coach Nick Bollettieri has died at the age of 91, tenisworldusa.org said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Legendary coach Nick Bollettieri passes away! <br \/>Check on&gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/468xdSSVME\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/468xdSSVME<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/41eaDuhMAP\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/41eaDuhMAP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sport News Central (@Central2News) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Central2News\/status\/1594353059878277120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his prolific reputation as a tennis coach, Bollettieri\u2019s playing career was limited to him playing the sport in high school.<\/p>\n<p>Bollettieri&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t have any such place where they could stay and learn and improve on their game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well-known Italian American tennis coach Nick Bollettieri has died at the age of 91, tenisworldusa.org said on Sunday. Legendary coach Nick Bollettieri passes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394667,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He coaches many top players, including Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles, the Williams Sisters, and Maria Sharapova","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394666"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394666"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}