1 st Annual Trans-Asia Pacific Tennis Summit

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1 1 st Annual Trans-Asia Pacific Tennis Summit Date: 6 th to 9 th December 2018 Venue: Kep, Cambodia Providing a unique educational environment for tennis coaches and tennis parents towards a greater understanding of the performance tennis journey. Specialized instructional courses, seminars, professional player-parent testimonials and interactive dialogue sessions will be conducted by tennis industry experts and presenters. Speakers Aisam Qureshi Braen Aneiros Christopher Rungkat Dave Miley Danai Udomchoke Doug MacCurdy Jean-Philippe Fleurian Robert Ballard Robert Davis Roger Rasheed Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana Thanakorn Srichaphan Yen-Hsun, Lu Please tennisapac@gmail.com for further enquiries

2 Aisam Qureshi (Pakistan) Career high: ATP Singles no. 125 Doubles no. 8. Founder of Stop War Start Tennis Foundation, Co-author of Aisam Qureshi: Lessons Learnt from the Tennis Tour and recipient of Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award 2002, Braen Aneiros (Cuba) ATP Tour Coach, GPTCA Level A Coach, ATP Tour coach of Yuichi Sugita, Sonchat and Sanchai Ratiwatana. Former Technical Director of Tennis Cambodia. Christopher Rungkat (Indonesia) Career high: ATP singles no. 241 Doubles no. 96, SEA Games Gold Medals 4. Founder of CBR Foundation which hosts 12U tennis tournaments nationwide. Dave Miley (Ireland) For 25 years Dave worked for the ITF, and served as Director of Development. His responsibilities included Junior Tennis, Senior Tennis, Wheelchair Tennis, Technical and Anti-doping. He also oversaw the jointly funded ITF/Grand Slam global development programs which included activities in high performance player development, coach education and participation/ club development. Today, he works as a consultant for the Asian Tennis Federation in developmental activities.

3 Danai Udomchoke (Thailand) Career high: ATP Singles no. 77 3rd RD showing in Grand Slam play at Australian Open, Asian Games Gold medal singles. 5 SEA Games Gold Medals, GPTCA National President-Thailand, ATP Tour coach of Lu Yen-Hsun, and Tatsuma Ito. Air Asia Junior Tour Team Coach, Singha Grandslam Junior Coach. Doug MacCurdy (USA) In 1984, Doug was appointed the first ever ITF Director of Development. For 15 years he manned the helm traveling to an average of countries per year while pioneering projects like the ITF World Wide Coaching Workshop, ITF Pro Travel Team, formation of ITF Development Officers, African Junior Circuits. USA, China, India, Korea, Thailand and Turkey. Jean-Philippe Fleurian (France) Career high: ATP singles no. 37, with wins against Boris Becker, Stephan Edberg, and Andre Agassi. He played Davis Cup for France from 1986 to As a tennis consultant, he has served on the board member of the French Tennis Federation for 6 years, the ITF Tennis Athlete s Commission Coordinator (IOC), ITF Player liaison officer and a certified coach from the French Tennis Federation. He is also a trainer for the USTA, Tennis Canada, Qatar Tennis Federation as well as an international speaker in conferences and symposiums.

4 Robert Ballard (Australia) A former Olympic runner representing Australia at the 1988 Seoul Olympics (4 X 400 Relay) and 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games. On the ATP and WTA Tours, he has worked with Dmitry Tursunov, Aisam Qureshi, Sonia Mirza and Varvara Lepchenko. He has also served as the Supervisor for the Indonesia National Sports Program, and Technical Director for the Malaysian Athletics Federation. He is a Level 3 ASCA Strength and Conditioning Coach. Robert Davis (USA) Robert has spent 29 years on the ATP Tour and served as Technical Director and National Coach for Peru, Panama, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Sport Singapore. He is also the Global Professional Tennis Coaching Tennis Association (GPTCA) National President for Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Singapore. Currently, he is the Editor-in- Chief of ELITE Tennis Journal. Roger Rasheed (Australia) Former coach of Grigor Dimitrov, Gael Monfils, Lleyton Hewitt and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. In addition to his tennis coaching and commentating, he is an elite behavior specialist and corporate leadership consultant. Roger also serves on the ATP Tour Board.

5 Sonchat and Sanchai Ratiwatana (Thailand) Career high: ATP Doubles no. 39, Asian Games Silver medal, SEA Games Gold medals 7. Hold ATP Challenger titles record with a total of 46 Dr. Thanakorn Srichaphan (Thailand) ATP & WTA Tour coach, Davis Cup & Fed Cup captain, Asian Games player & captain. Doctorate degree in Sports Management. As a player, Thanakorn represented Thailand in Davis Cup, ATP Tour, Asian Games and SEA Games. Yen-Hsun Lu (Taiwan) Career high: ATP Singles no. 33, member of ATP Player Council. Defeated 3-time finalist Roddick 9-7 in 5th to reach 2010 Wimbledon QF, becoming 1st Asian quarter-finalist at All England Club since Matsuoka in He is the only player to beat 2-time gold medalist Murray at Olympic Games. All-time winningest champion on ATP Challenger Tour with 29 singles titles in 46 finals.

6 Parent Educational Symposium A unique opportunity to interact with current and former Asian professional tennis players. At the symposium, you will get to hear these players share their testimonies and how they navigated the journey to the ATP Tour. Through one-on-one dialogue and cluster group settings, the symposium offers the parent-coach a great opportunity to ask questions and seek solutions to many of the challenges that face children who dream of reaching the ATP Tour. These are some of the topics that would be covered:- Importance of family roles and support Recognizing the effects of expectations and pressures Climbing the ATP rankings and defending points Breakdowns before breakthroughs Successful habits of high performance champions Creating a career road map Momentum Management Selecting the right coach Scheduling philosophies and ATP case studies Nutritional and Flexibility Routines in the home

7 Teaching and Coaching Symposium Lectures and Courses These are some of the topics that would be covered:- GPTCA Levels B & C Courses TIGA Method Course ISMCA Course Strength and Conditioning for High Performance Nutritional Education for High Performance The Triad: Parent, Player and Coach Incorporating Technology in the weekly and daily coaching program Structural Planning and Micro-Training Blocks Creating Weapons The How and When of dealing with technical strengths and weaknesses of players Understanding Player Personality Types for Effective Communication Techniques Momentum Management Match Case Studies