GPTCA President since August 2010
National President of the GPTCA Italy and Morocco
2010-2025
Led more than 100 GPTCA courses, certified by ATP, everywhere on the world, especially in China, Brazil, USA, Italy, Germany, Greece, Romania, Mexico, South Korea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Israel, India, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Ecuador
2000-2012
He directs, as a technical director, the training courses for tennis teacher and Coach of the UISP, Tennis League (Unione Italiana Sport per Tutti)
- For over 15 years he’s been teaching at the Faculty of Physical Education, University of Perugia, “Technical theory and teaching for individual sports” and for four years in the specialized Degree Course for Sciences and Techniques of the Sporting Activity, “Individual sports”.
- He’s an international Coach ATP. He graduated as a tennis-Teacher at the National School for Teachers (Rome) of the Italian Tennis Federation
- Today he’s a member, as an International Coach of the Coach Association of the ATP (Professional Tennis Association), the most important international organization in the world of professional tennis coaching
- He was director of the private group “Il Perugino: the art of tennis” which was and is composed by a team of elite coaches. The group had and still has top 100 and top 50 ATP players
Occupation and position held
1991-1998
Director of the SAT, the Federal Training School of Junior Tennis Perugia, with about 200 tennis students per year
1983-1991
Director of the Federal Training School of Tennis in Cianciano Terme (Siena)
He was registered in the Official List of technicians, specialized in sport psychology. The Register is managed by the AIPS. For several years he held the Optional Courses of Tennis I and Tennis II, at the Isef of Perugia. Those courses were for Isef students and both of them had the relating final exam to be taken
President of the Association of world high level tennis coaches GPTCA, founded in New York in 2010, during the US Open
Main activities and responsibilities
- He directed, as national technical director, for over 20 years, the training courses for tennis teacher and coach of the tennis league of UISP (Unione Italiana Sport per tutti)
- He was a director of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the same tennis league of UISP
- He is University teacher of Perugia University (Italy)
- He is a professor of two Exams (Practical Sport Coaching 1 and 2) since 2022 of Newport Research University of Florida (USA) www.nru-edu.com
- He is the GPTCA International President and National President of Italy and Morocco
- He was a Director for more than 12 years of the Sport Psychology courses of ISMCA (International Sport Mental Coach Association)
- He is since 2023 Director of the Mental Courses of the “Tennis Emotional Coaching Association“
GPTCA A* Level International Coach
2000
Title of Professional of the PTR (Professional Tennis Registry), the biggest international association of tennis teachers with headquarter in the USA
1991
Diploma of "International Coach" and “Tennis-Teacher” UISP (Italian Union Sport for everyone)
Took part in the training courses in Sport Psychology organized by the Italian Association of Sport Psychology and he got the highest degree for a technician-trainer
Graduated “honoris causa” from Newport Research University (USA) in “Coaching in sport”. Got the Doctoral University degree the 29th of September 2012 with lectio magistralis “Coaching and Beauty” (www.nru-edu.org )
Passed 27 exams for the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Rome and Perugia to get the second University degree. He did “Galeazzo Alessi” scientific high school in Perugia and he got the high school degree
Tennis Teacher of the Italian Tennis Federation (FIT) diploma
GPTCA (Global Professional Tennis Coach Association) International Coach of the highest level (A with a star)
- Organised several scientific conferences at the ISEF in Perugia; at the Fitness Festival in Rimini, at the Junior tennis in Perugia
- Took part, as a speaker, in several scientific conventions, among them: the world congress of sporting Psychology in Paris in 2000 and the international conventions of Pro Patria Milan, continuously each year, starting from 1998 to 2011
Alberto Castellani
Email: castellania@libero.it
Website: www.albertocastellani.com / www.artoftennis.com
Mobile: 0039 (0) 3482618923
