ATP/WTA Players

Svetlana Kuznetsova, US OPEN and ROLAND GARROS Champion, spent a decade in Emilio Sánchez Academy (AS-C), under the direction of Emilio Sanchez Vicario.

While training at the Academy, she focused in gaining rhythm during court trainings, physical aspects, support and mobility.

Came to Barcelona when he was 15 years old, beginning in ITF tournaments and four years later, when he 18 years old, he got into the 400 of the ATP.

Grigor Dimitrov spent the 2007/2008 season at the Emilio Sánchez Academy, before his jump from Junior to the ATP Circuit.

19 WTA. The list of important victories on her tennis resume with names like Steffi Graf, Jana Novotna, Mary Pierce and Patty Schnyder.

Ramkumar Ramanathan, the Indian Davis Cup player has a “Spanish accent” thanks to his formative years at the Emilio Sánchez Academy. In the year 2011, Ramkumar arrived at the Emilio Sánchez Academy where he joined the Young Promises team, with the objective of making the most of his forehand and good serve while also acquiring experience in competition.

He operated within the Emilio Sánchez Academy System for five years (as had Andy Murray, Grigor Dimitrov and Sveta Kuznetsova before him) with a clear focus on four main pillars: technical, tactical, mental and physical.

The young Ramkumar, bestowed with the affectionate name of “Ram” by colleagues and staff, worked to improve his potential. He gained experience in competition while becoming stronger on the clay courts and strengthening his body, in order to meet the requirements of high performance competition.

A calendar was planned with special focus on the Spanish national circuit, and he played ITFs and Futures, as well as fulfilling his international commitments with the Indian Tennis Federation.

As a Junior he achieved excellent results, becoming a Junior national champion in India. A few years later he took a spot as part of the Davis Cup Team, where he had Mahesh Bhupathi as a senior figure to follow. In 2016, with the Davis Cup Team, he played one tie (two singles points) in the victory over South Korea.

After that he enrolled the Travelling Team of the Emilio Sánchez Academy in Florida, United States.

In an interview for the Hindu Newspaper in 2013, Emilio Sánchez Vicario affirmed that Ramkumar, by then 18 years old, was "a young talent with clear potential and one day he will do something important in tennis".

Argentine tennis player Juan Mónaco grew as a player at the Emilio Sánchez Academy (as-c) which managed to be finalist at the Orange Bowl in 2001.

2007 was his best season to break into top 50. Solid clay court results.

Officially announced his retirement in Barcelona on 22 July 2011.

Luxembourgian Gilles Muller, worked during two seasons, from 2003 to 2005 when he made it into the Top 100 ATP, with the Emilio Sánchez Academy (AS-C) training system.

She was at the Academy for three seasons (2004-2007).
WTA SINGLES TITLES:
Winner. 2004 - New Haven; 2002 - Warsaw, Québec City.

During the first time she was training at the Academy in 2007-2008, with Head Coach Angel Gimenez, managed to be among the top ten of the WTA and qualify for the Madrid Masters.

Nuria Llagostera reached her best singles ranking of world number 35.
She spent 5 years at the Academy (1999-2004).
WTA SINGLES Winner: 2008 - Bogotá; 2005 - Rabat.
Spanish Fed Cup Team, 2005, 2007-13; Spanish Olympic Team, 2008, 2012.

Johana Konta joined Emilio Sánchez Academy and ES American School when she was 13 years old. The decision to come to Spain was really important and brave, because she was young and had a dream. She worked to achieve that dream.
She enjoyed the practice and love tennis because her smile was always on her face at Emilio Sánchez Academy. She worked on coordination, footwork and be solid, consistency in competition.
She had a good technique, but in those time, she needed improve the fitness condition for the competition, because she deal properly the practice but in a match you need as a player another things. She wanted to learn, and she has a determination to become a top player.