The European Tennis Federation and the Mouratoglou Academy are offering special training weeks to extraordinary talents (boys or girls aged 12, 14 or 16 & Under) from emerging nations (Tier 1 Development countries). The experience includes transfers, accommodation, daily training and full board.
The famous academy is located in the heart of the French Rivera (20 minutes from airport Nice) and is the first and only academy to be officially endorsed by Tennis Europe. It offers 12-hectares of sport paradise, including 34 tennis courts, 4 padel courts, 4 swimming pools, a 4-star hotel, a spa, a country club, 2 fitness centres and an innovative sports medicine centre. Players like Stefanos Tsitsipas, Coco Gauff, Holger Rune and Brenda & Linda Fruhvirtova train at the Mouratoglou Academy, under the mentorship of founder and owner Patrick Mouratoglou.
Tennis Europe offers 8 training weeks at the Academy per year. Eligible nations are Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Tûrkiye. Further information for national federations can be found here.
The 8 players to benefit from this unique experience in 2022 were Gresi Bajri (ALB), Mikael Avanesyan (ARM), Elvin Hashimov (AZE), Elizara Yaneva (BUL), Unik Ramadani (KOS), Ilie Cazac (MDA), Amar Juseinovikj (MKD) and Kerem Yilmaz (TUR).