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Hi, my name is Stefano

and tennis has always been at the centre of my life, I became familiar with it and I immediately realised that it would have represented something important for me.

Just to be clear, it’s not one of those things that you try and then stop all of a sudden without paying attention to it. On the contrary, it’s something that attracts you to the point that it appears to be the solution to slowing down days.

Children must be happy, and I was happy on that tennis court.  That small space brought together all of my emotions.

During my experience as a player, I immediately achieved excellent results.  Already at the age of 10 I started to win over and over again and I constantly participated in national and international tournaments.

It was not unusual to find my name on billboards next to those of future champions who we still see and admire on TV.  I was part of all of that.  People on the edge of the courts used to watch me and say: “If he carries on, this one will become a champion.”

I used to win, I used to lose, I used to fight.  I was a child, a “mini professional” with great dreams.

This period continued until I was 16 years of age more or less, then I moved onto tennis for adults.

Approximately six years at good levels, reaching the summits of Italian rankings and several appearances in the professional circuit, and at the age of 24 I decided to change things.

From that moment onwards, a few more sporadic games and a lot more energy spent in building my career as a teacher.

I wanted to stay on a tennis court and my sixth sense confirmed that that was the right road to follow.  Basically continuation of that road, the road on which I had been a protagonist for years, through different years.

For fifteen years I had lived day by day in an attempt to keep the flame of my ambitions alive, helping me to believe in myself all the time. In my working decisions, in a completely natural way I imagined to preserve this glow and transform it into a completely new dimension, in which others could absorb my own skills.  

In 2014, after two years of intense training, I achieved the Professional Qualification as National Master of the Italian Tennis Federation, presenting the thesis “Technical training of the two-handed backhander during the specialisation phase.”

Right from the beginning I decided that my adventure was to start in the name of undertaking.  I was never backed by large clubs that through gradual introduction could have been able to help me along the way, but only a strong desire and a clear idea of what teaching should be and every relative detail.

After a few years of running in, tests and experiments in the Tennis School that I ran, did I realise that the time had come to give a name to this idea of mine on tennis, that could bring together several situations and professionals through the use of a common method and philosophy.

Therefore at the end of 2017 I created the “Stefano Bracchi Tennis Team”, the activities that represent me and that my members of the Technical Staff belong to.

A synergy, together with an unexpected and careful recruitment of talents, that led me through the years to the development of a sector for youngsters well organised and of broad perspectives.

Other Italian clubs currently turn to us for consultancy or supervision, with the objective of optimising teaching in their Tennis Schools.