About Francisco Montana

Mar/24/08 08:08 PM
kiko
Francisco Montana, a South Florida resident, has been involved with Florida tennis for the past 20 years. Montana was a 10-time USTA National junior gold ball champion (6 silver balls). He also won the 18’s singles Easter Bowl Championship at the age of fifteen. Montana played two years of varsity tennis at the University of Georgia (1988-89) and was an all-American in 1989. He competed on the pro tour from 1990-2000, winning 10 doubles titles, including two Tennis Masters Series events (1997 Monte Carlo; 1998 Hamburg).  He earned a career-high ranking of #98 in singles and #5 in doubles.

Montana joined the USTA Player Development staff as National Coach for Men's tennis in January 2003.  Prior to his role as a National Coach, Montana was the private coach of Alex Bogomolov for two years.  During this time the young American won the 2001 USTA Boys’ 18s Super National singles title and was the highest mover in the 2002 ATP Entry System, jumping more than 800 spots to finishing the year at #168. Bogomolov achieved his career high ATP ranking of #97 in singles under Montana’s tutelage.  Montana worked with Taylor Dent from March of 2004 where he was ranked #37 ATP until March 2005 where Dent was ranked #22 in the world. Montana then began working with Robby Ginepri in January of 2005 when Ginepri was ranked #72 ATP singles and helped Ginepri attain his highest singles ranking of world #15. Montana became a widely respected tennis ‘turnaround’ specialist on the ATP tour.

The guiding principles of Francisco Montana Tennis emanate from his personal and educational/coaching philosophies which he has developed during his 20 years of playing, coaching and educating. Working with young people is very important to him and he uses tennis as a method to not only develop winners on the court, but to also instill moral values, high character, and a commitment to personal excellence that will make them winners in life as well. These philosophies are the foundation and guiding principles behind every decision made.  

“The real measure of success is not only made on the court, but off the court. The development of not only a great player, but a respectable person is what I strive to do with every player I mentor.”
Francisco Montana

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