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Leading Pro Tour Coach Pablo Giacopelli Joins iTUSA Team - New Managing Partner for Worldwide Business Development By Kim Shanley This month iTUSA reached an agreement with Pablo Giacopelli to join iTUSA as Managing Partner for Worldwide Business Development.
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"We are extremely excited to have someone with Pablo Giacopelli's coaching and business talents join the iTUSA team," said Rafael Font de Mora, President of iTUSA. "Pablo joins us after an outstanding coaching career. Most recently, he was the personal coach for Shahar Peer, taking her from #45 in the world to #14. Beyond his professional teaching career, Pablo also has extensive business experience, managing a large tennis club in the UK, as well as participating in successful tennis projects at all levels of our sport. Pablo is exactly the right person for this new role, as we move to build on our momentum recently established with our partnership with the Spanish Tennis Federation, which will be utilizing iTUSA's state-of-the-art instructional video technologies to accelerate their player development. This is an exciting time for us and I can't think of a more outstanding person than Pablo to help lead us forward."
• Spain has dominated Davis Cup over the last decade, winning four times in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2009. Its victory in 2009 came after whitewashing Czech Republic 5-0 in the Final in Barcelona.
• Spain has 8 male players in the top 50 in the world! No other country comes close (3 for USA, 2 for Switzerland, 2 for Russia and 3 for Germany).
But since the end of last year Pe’er has gone from strength to strength and has played some of the best tennis of her life in recent months.
Speaking to The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, Giacopelli explained how much work had to be done to get Pe’er’s game back on track.