The Tennisgate Team

MANAGING DIRECTOR

• TENNISGATE project manager and executive owner of TennisGate LTD
• DTB A-certificate coach
• Many years of experience as head of a youth talent promotion group and freelance coach for the Baden Tennis Association (BTV)
• Media designer, specializing in visual coaching since 2001

ROLE AT TENNISGATE 

• Providing video analysis of the pros
• Developing and producing TennisGate products
• Producing digital tennis media, streaming videos, flash animations
• Head administrator within the Community

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS

• Owner of the sponsoring and events agency MCD-Sportmarketing since 2000
• Events organiser of ITF tournaments in Überlingenand Fällanden (CH)
• 1996-2000 Employee at World Sports Marketing where his work included supporting the organizational team at the ATP World Championships (Hannover) and Eurocard Open (Stuttgart)

ROLE AT TENNISGATE 

• Marketing and communications
• Supporting the acquisition of sponsorship and media partners
• Establishing international contacts and networks
• Organizing TennisGate workshops
• Admin in the Community

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

• Training and development
• DTB A-certificate coach
• Many years of experience as a coach for the BTV
• Speaker and teacher in B-certificate coaching training at the BTV
• Author of many coaching articles in the Deutsche Tennis Zeitung (DTZ)
• Owner of theVillinger Tennis School

ROLE AT TENNISGATE 

• Developing training tips
• Managing the training center
• Quality control and network
• Admin in the Community

international consultant

• Fluent in German, English and Spanish
• Speaker in several coaches workshops throughout the world. ITF, PTR, DTB, ITA, USTA.
• 1988 - 1990 University of Texas in Austin Austin, TX. Assistant Coach Men’s Tennis Team Helped with all areas of college coaching
• 1990 - 1995 United States Tennis Association Key Biscayne, FL National Coach Trained and traveled with the USTA’s Boys National Team.
• Director of Player Development at Palmer Tennis Academy Coached and helped structure program at the academy
• 1995 - 1998 German Tennis Association Hanover, Germany National Coach Directed the Junior program for the Girls National Team.
• Centro Mextenis Morelos, Mexico Founder and Director of Centro Mextenis de Alto Rendimiento
• Read more about Edgar GiffenigGiffenig Tennis Website

ROLE AT TENNISGATE 

• Speaker and lector at the international TennisGate Coaches Workshop
• Proofreading translations in English and Spanish
• Quality control and international coaches network
• Training and development
• Admin in the Community

VIDEO PRODUCTION

• University degree in media and information studies
• TV and video productions
• Owner ofMP Design

ROLE AT TENNISGATE 

• Concept, shoot planning and filming image films
• Video shoots at tennis events and TennisGate workshops

IT consulting

• Completed a degree in business IT at Furtwangen University, before going on to study application architectures.
• Graduated as Master of Science

ROLE AT TENNISGATE 

• Server hardware
• Server-Administration
• Controlling Administrator of the data base

IT consulting

• University degree in business IT
• Years of experience in web development (HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL)
• Co-Author of several ITG training books
• Owner of thomasschultis.de

ROLE AT TENNISGATE 

• Server and hardware installation and configuration
• Website interactivity and Community
• Data base administration

PRESS, PR, PRESENTER

• Years of presenting major tennis events such as the ATP Masters, Zürich Open, Heilbronn Open
• Tennis commentator for tennislive.tv
• Reporter for the ARD Sportschau at WDR Reporter and TV presenter for Deutsche Welle TV
• Freelance writer for the specialist magazine "Golf Punk"

ROLE AT TENNISGATE 

• Press and PR
• Presenter for TennisGate products
• Commentator on the DVD Tennis Workout with the Thera Band