Alejandro Bragado

ALEJANDRO BRAGADO

Professional Tennis Teacher

 

Personal Information:

  • Nationality: Spanish
  • Birthday: February 1st, 1974
  • Birthplace: Barcelona, Spain.
  • Email: pamshotennis@gmail.com

Professional Experience:

  • September 2014 – currently:

Co- Founder and coach at PAM SHOT Tennis Academy.

  • 1998- July 2014:

Tennis Coach at Catalonia Tennis Federation.  During that period I have hold several positions: coach at the ITF center, coach in charge of the under-16 and under-18 male players’ sponsored groups, Spanish captain of the European under-16 team in Moscow 2007 .

I have worked with: Jose María Arenas (Second Davis Captain on 2012-13), Eduard Osta (Arancha Sanchez Vicario’s Coach), Jordi Arrese (Olympic medallist in Barcelona-92) and Albert Costa (Roland Garros Winner).

In different periods, I have coached players who follow the Top 100 such as:  David Ferrer, Albert Montañes, Marcel Granollers, David Nalbandian, Kevin Anderson, Dusan Lajovic, Marc Lopez- David Marrero (Master Cup winners in London 2013), Albert Ramos, Ricardas Beranquis, Joao Sousa, Steven Diez (winner the same year Catalonia, Spain and Europe Junior Championships),  Rui Machado, Pere Riba, Sergi Duran (main draw Wimbledon 1997) and a lot of players Top 200 and Top 300 (Gorka Fraile, Iñigo Cervantes, Gerard Granollers, Javier Genaro, etc).

Oriol Roca’s coach in Grand Slams Junior, reaching quarterfinals in Roland Garros.

  • 1992-96:

Coach in PRO- AB Academy.

Player Experience:

  • Trained during my player career by: Manolo Orantes (Master and US Open Champion in the 1960’s and 1970’s), Javier Duarte (Captain of the first Spanish Team to win the Davis Cup against Lleyton Hewitt’s and Patrick Rafter’s Australian Team, coach of Alex Corretja and Alberto Berasategui both Top 10)
  • During six years, I was training partner of  Alex Corretja and Alberto Berasategui,
  • Member of Bimbo Team (Pre-Olympic Team in Barcelona-92).
  • Until I was nineteen years old, I was representative player of the Spanish Tennis Federation with players such as Alex Corretja and Alberto Berasategui.
  • 1993-1997: Winner of different Price Money tournaments in Spain.
  • 1992: Winner of Spain and Europe Double Championships, playing with Jairo Velasco (top 100 doubles).
  • 1991: Semi-finalist at Apple Bowl, International Junior Championship.
  • 1990: Second team with Spain in the European Teams Championship, playing with Alex Corretja, J.Gisbert, Jairo Velasco and Juanse Martinez.
  • 1989: Third Team with Spain in the European Teams Championship, playing with Alberto Berasategui, Alex Corretja, Juanse Martinez and Jairo Velasco.
  • 1986-1989: Champion of Spain in different categories.
  • 1988:
    • Champion of Spain singles and doubles with Alex Corretja.
    • Runner up of Europe Team: Alex Corretja, Juanse Martinez, Jairo Velasco and Joan Gisbert.
    • Quarterfinalist in Tarbes, France (“Les Petite As”) and Champion of doubles with Alex Corretja.
  • 1987: Champion of Spain, singles and doubles.
  • 1986: Sub-Champion of Spain, singles.
  • 1985: Champion Spain, singles.
  • 1983: Champion of the International Trophy Nancy and Dunkerke (France).

Key Skills:

With over 20 years experience in training tennis players from base to professionalism. I consider my best virtue as a coach is to give every player a clear pattern of play, as well as a tactic to tackling matches intelligence.

References:

  • Javier Duarte
  • Jordi Arrese
  • Albert Costa
  • Manuel Orantes
  • Alex Corretja
  • Alberto Berasategui

Languages:

  • Spanish
  • English
  • Catalan

 

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