Mike Rogers

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Mike Rogers

USPTA Elite Pro 1 Mike Rogers is on staff as a tennis professional at the Balboa Tennis Club in San Diego. The club is located at the famous Morley Field, considered to be one of the best Park and Recreation Tennis facilities in the nation. He also is the founder and president of the San Diego Junior Tennis Association, designed to introduce children to the sport of tennis. He recently received the 2012 USPTA San Diego Division  Community Service Award.  His cooperative coaching style has been honed over twenty years of developing, teaching and promoting tennis for adults and juniors. He was the coach for the USDHS (University of San Diego High School)  Boy’s Varsity tennis team, and holds the CIF title for 2000.

Mike attended the Tennis Technology Program at Nationally Ranked Tyler Junior College, where he earned a diploma in Recreational Leadership and Teaching with Steve Smith as his instructor and coordinator. In 1985 he taught for Harry Hopman at Saddle Brook Resort in Florida.

Mike believes in emphasizing a player’s strenghts to instill confidence and poise both on and off the court.

‘I believe players learn more, feel better and, most importantly, have more fun when they focus on what they do best’  says Mike. ‘If you have a killer backhand, that’s where we’ll begin and how we’ll build your best game together’.

He was the longtime Director of Tennis at the Handlery Swim and Tennis Club in Mission Valley, and the Tennis Teaching Professional at the Borrego Ranch Resort and Spa.

‘Mike doen’t just bark orders. His teaching success comes from his ability to effectively collaborate with his students’

says Shaun McGachan, General Manager

Mike has worked with Vic Braden in Sylt, Germany coordinating adult tennis programs, and is still collaborating with him at some special events. Vic in his last book dedicated to Mike: