The Schüttler Waske Tennis-University is a tennis academy located in

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near Frankfurt, Germany. The academy was founded in 2010 by two German former Davis Cup players,

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and onetime Australian Open finalist

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. The academy is member of the Hessian Tennis Association. Overall about 30 players, professional, young professional as well as junior players are training permanently in the tennis academy. Others use the coaching staff, around tennis head coach

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as well as head athletic coach Christian Rauscher, weekly for tournament preparation. Junior players also get the chance to train like the tennis professionals in the year around tennis camps.

History

After a severe elbow injury in the Davis Cup semi-final in Moscow in 2007, German tennis player Alexander Waske founded the Schüttler Waske Tennis-University in 2010, together with former Davis Cup companion Rainer Schüttler. Initially, starting with a head coach, Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh, the academy today has over 10 coaches working with the professional tennis players as well as the juniors on a permanent basis or in the tennis camps. The notable players

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, and Yen-Hsun Lu used the facilities in 2011 in order to prepare for the clay court season. In 2011,

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began training at the tennis academy before reaching the semifinals in the 2011 US Open and 2012 Wimbledon. The Tennis-University now continuously trains over 30 German and international professional players, among them

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,Reinfeld, Lars
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and the German national junior hopes,

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, Niklas Schell,

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and Max Wiskandt. Internationally, the

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boys junior doubles champion Sumit Nagal as well as Chinese Taipei youngster Richard Lin Liang Yu use the tennis academy as their training base.

Facilities and programs

The academy features indoor

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courts, seven professional outdoor courts, and auxiliary training facilities. In addition to professional training, it offers a ''European Tennis Summer School'' for student athletes as well as summer and fall ''Tennis-Point Junior Camps'' for players aged 6–18.

References

External links

Official website
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