CONTACT INFO

Address: Highway City 513,Beirut,Lebanon

Phone/fax: +961 30 34 609

E-mail: dejan@tennisproexpert.com
EDUCATION

BS Sport Management, BK University, Belgrade, 2003.

Advanced School for Sport Coaches, tennis department, University of Sport, Novi Sad, 1994.

CERTIFICATION

Level I, International Tennis Federation, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, 1999.

Level II, International Tennis Federation, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2000.

PTR Professional, 2004.

Leadership and Administration in Tennis, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1994.

Attended many coaching and leadership workshops and meetings around the world, including:

  • ETA Coaches Symposium 2000, Otocec, Slovenia
  • Richard Schonborn Workshops, Belgrade 1997, Skopje 2000
  • ETA AGM: Helsinki 1999, Barcelona 2000
  • ETA Team Championship Comitee meetings: Zurich 2000, 2001; Wimbledon 1999, 2000: Roland Garros 2001
  • PTR Asia Coaches Conference 2007,Shanghai,China
RESULTS

As a player: participant of over 200 national and international junior and professional championships and won 17 titles.

As a coach: coached the Yugoslav national team three times in the final rounds of the European Team Championships, defeated the national teams of Great Britain, Italy, Germany and Spain.

For many years a personal coach of top leve professional tennis players such as:Ana Ivanovic(WTA No.1),Jelena Jankovic(WTA No.1),Novak Djokovic(ATP No.3),Janko Tipsarevic(ATP No.38)etc.

EMPLOYMENT

1990 - 1996: National Team Coach, Yugoslav Tennis Federation

1997 - 2000: National Team Captain, Jr. Dept., Yugoslav Tennis Federation

1998 - 2000: General Secretary, Yugoslav Tennis Federation

1995 - 1999 Lecturer, Advanced School for Sport Coaches, Belgrade

2000 - present: Professor at call, Advanced School for Sport Coaches - Tennis Dept., Belgrade

2001 - present: President of The Association of Yugoslav Tennis Professionals

2006-present: Development Director of Middle East Sports Management

OTHER SKILLS

Languages: English (excellent), German, Italian (fluent)

Computer literate

OTHER INTERESTS

Authored student and reference books about tennis, such as:

  • Teniska Prizma, Gea, Belgrade, 2000
  • From Tennis School to Top Tennis Players, JSD Partizan, Belgrade, 1995
  • Management in Tennis, to be published in 2003

Author of the TV show Teniska Prizma which ran for 20 weeks, twice a week - as a premiere and a rerun, on the national TV station YUInfo, 2001.

PERSONAL

Born: July 25th, 1965

Height: 187cm, Weight: 86kg

Nationality: Serbian

 

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