• Introduction
• Training method
• Diplomas
• Contact

Michel du Buy (r) and Dennis van der Meer, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, U.S.A., 1980

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Diplomas

• tennis instructor A diploma of the KNLTB on 10 June 1980
• diploma from the Tennis University of Dennis van der Meer, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, U.S.A. on 2 November 1980

• the internationally-recognised RPT diploma of the European Registry of Tennis Professionals at the Academia Sánchez Casal in Barcelona on 16 December 2004

Applications [ = supplementary courses]

• 21 November 1995 “mental toughness” and “development of young talents” by Dr Jim Loehr (U.S.A.)
• 13 December 2002 “youth tennis” by the KNLTB

Career

• from 1980 to 1990, as tennis instructor on the municipal tennis courts in the Alkmaarder Hout in Alkmaar
• from 1990 to 2000 (summer and winter), as trainer on the artificial-grass courts in the De Bedriegertjes tennis park in Bergen, North Holland
• from 2001 to the present, as club trainer at the Joy Jaagpad tennis club in Amsterdam

Further experience

• during the winters of 1986, 87, 88, 89 and 90, in the Overdie tennis hall in Alkmaar
• December 1980, January and February 1981, as assistant instructor to Harry Hopman, the “Godfather” of modern tennis training, in his training camp in Bardmoor, Largo, Florida, U.S.A.
• during the winter of 1983/84, for a period of 5 months, as tennis trainer on the “municipal tennis courts” in Whyalla, South Australia, Australia.
• during the summer holidays of 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999, tennis clinics for German tourists/tennis players on the courts of the De Bedriegertjes tennis park in Bergen, North Holland.
• in November 2004, four-week apprenticeship at the Academia Sánchez Casal in Barcelona, Spain