Celebrated coach Nick Bollettieri embraced 'craziness' and revolutionised tennis 🟢PaulN54 for iPaperSport
Leaving law school after a year, Bollettieri threw himself into tennis coaching. While running summer camps he developed the idea of establishing a tennis academy, where students would immerse themselves in the sport.
The academy established a reputation as a boot camp, where students were pushed hard. Bollettieri himself had a great work ethic: for decades he would get up at 5am and be on court coaching by 6am. Spending so many hours in the Florida sun, it was no wonder that his wraparound sunglasses and leather-like skin became his trademarks.
Agassi always had a love-hate relationship with tennis. He was a difficult teenager with a mind of his own, but Bollettieri knew how to handle him. After Agassi was thrashed by Henri Leconte on his Wimbledon debut in 1987 he refused to go back there for the next three years.
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