THE METHOD
A method built on experience, science, and continuous experimentation
My method stems from the integration of three experiences that rarely come together in the same professional figure: direct experience as a player, as a tennis coach, and as a personal trainer specialized in tennis performance.
This practical experience is complemented by a solid scientific education obtained at ISEF in Rome — today the University of Rome “Foro Italico,” one of the leading international institutions in Motor Sciences.
This combination has allowed me to approach tennis not only from a technical and tactical perspective but as an integrated system in which movement, biomechanics, physical preparation, cognitive abilities, psychological aspects, and performance all interact.
Two great methodological traditions, a personal synthesis
A significant part of my training and research has been dedicated to studying the Spanish methodology, through direct experience and collaborations with some of the most important Spanish tennis institutions, particularly the Bruguera Tennis Academy, along with other leading academies.
Studying the Spanish method led me to explore fundamental concepts such as movement automatization, footwork, balance, acceleration, defense and attack, technical-tactical development, and game situation management. The Bruguera methodology, in particular, integrates technical, physical, strategic, and mental aspects into a single training system.
At the same time, I have continued to value the Italian methodological tradition, developed through the Italian Tennis Federation school — today FITP — and through training at the Higher Institute of Training.
The Italian system has built over the years a structured methodology that guides players from basic training through refinement, specialization, and elite levels. Today, it represents one of the international reference systems for tennis training and development (FITP).
My method is born precisely from the meeting of these experiences.
It is therefore not a matter of simply applying the "Spanish method" or the "Italian method," but of selecting, analyzing, and integrating what I consider most effective from each approach, adapting it to the individual characteristics of the player and the demands of modern tennis.
From child development to professional tennis
In over 25 years of activity, I have had the opportunity to observe, coach, and experiment with the method on players of all ages and levels: from children as young as 3 years old — more than 10,000 children trained over about 20 years — to top juniors, to professional players and tennis players reaching the world Top 20.
This huge variety of experience is one of the method’s distinctive features.
Working with a child who still needs to learn how to organize their movement and, on the same professional path, with a world-class player allows understanding how the same principle must be continuously adapted to the athlete’s age, level, physical, cognitive, and technical characteristics.
From junior to professional
A particularly significant experience was collaborating with the ITF’s Grand Slam Development Fund project, which involved me in designing a specific testing and training protocol to support the transition from junior to professional tennis, with particular attention to injury prevention and adaptation to the increasing physical demands of professional tennis.
It is precisely in this career phase that players often face the greatest change: increased volume, intensity, competition frequency, and physical demands, while their body must still complete its adaptation process.
Even when the body faces extreme conditions
The method’s experimentation also extended to wheelchair tennis, where biomechanics must be rethought according to the athlete’s motor limitations.
Working in these conditions meant studying how to adapt and transform movement, seeking effective biomechanical solutions even when some motor chains are unavailable, identifying strategies capable of bypassing paralyzed areas and maximizing the athlete’s residual capacities.
These experiences have strengthened a fundamental belief:
There is no single model player valid for all. There is a system of principles that must be adapted to the person, their body, level, and tennis demands.
A method in continuous evolution
The method is therefore not a rigid protocol.
It is a continuously evolving system, nourished by field experience, observation, analysis, study, and experimentation.
Initial studies developed through training courses, professional updates, personal deepening, international collaborations, and above all through continuous field verification.
Each athlete represents a new source of information. Each problem requires a new question. Each solution can be further improved.
For this reason, the method is reworked and updated daily, integrating tennis, physical preparation, biomechanics, movement, injury prevention, perception, decision-making skills, and adaptation.
Passion as the engine of research
At the foundation lies a passion for tennis lasting over twenty-five years and a curiosity that never stopped.
The method is not something I have simply studied. It is something I have built, tested, modified, and continue to build every day through tennis and players.
From player experience to scientific training, from the Italian tradition to the Spanish school study, from children to the Top 20, from traditional tennis to wheelchair tennis: every experience has added an element to building a personal, integrated, and continuously evolving method.
Because in tennis there is no definitive endpoint.
There is always something to observe, understand, and improve.