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Keeping Houston’s young tennis players healthy and on the court.
HTx Pain Institute is proud to partner with Houston Tennis Academy at Club Westside and its co-founder and program director, Nikolay “Koko” Gantchev. We share a simple goal: helping young players train hard, stay healthy, and keep playing the game they love.
The Partnership
Two kinds of experience, pointed at the same problem.
Our partnership centers on injury prevention and supporting Houston’s tennis community. Koko brings more than three decades of coaching experience, including seven years as a full-time coach on the WTA tour. Dr. Edward Baumgartner brings a physician’s perspective on how repetitive strain affects shoulders, elbows, backs, and knees, and on what to do when pain starts to show up.
Events
What we are running together.
Injury Prevention Talk
Date to be announced · Houston Tennis Academy
An introduction to the strains junior tennis puts on a growing body, and the habits that keep players ahead of them.
Recovery and performance
Recovery and performance talks: warm-ups, mobility, sleep, and recovery between matches.
A parent night on training load
How much is too much for young players, and which aches are worth watching.
About Houston Tennis Academy
A junior program at Club Westside.
Houston Tennis Academy is a junior tennis program at Club Westside in west Houston, co-founded by Nikolay Gantchev and Ivan Ivanov. The academy trains players from age 5 through 18. Programs range from Quick Start for the youngest beginners, to the Challenger and Super Champ programs for older competitive juniors, to a weekly Junior Development program for players 11 and up.
A native of Ruse, Bulgaria, Koko began coaching in Austria in 1992 and went on to direct the tennis program at Tennis Club Hard. From 1995 to 2002, he coached full-time on the WTA tour before co-founding Houston Tennis Academy.
Houston Tennis Academy, houstontennisacademy.com
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