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From Coach Mauro:
Here at The Tennis Vault, we believe that playing tennis is all about having Major Fun!!
It’s such a very deep passion of ours that we just can’t get enough!!
It’s about an “all-in-one” physical, technical, tactical and mental challenge that will test your mind, body & heart and soul (both cardio and “desire”) in so many ways.
We Believe That:
- Tennis will help you a whole lot with your life’s attitude, in terms of you having a positive one, which will influence your way of living in general.
- Tennis is an activity that can help you stay healthy, plus also help you in many ways you can’t even imagine!!
- The game of tennis is in a category all its own!! It’s about feeling JOY when you hit a great shot, or win a very tough match. It’s about figuring things out!! It’s about figuring yourself out!! It’s about a game you are able to play between ages of 3-4 and 80-90′s years old. It’s about going many different places and meeting lots of new people!! 
- There’s no greater joy for us than when a student of ours learns to hit a tennis stroke with the correct, sound basic fundamentals! It is priceless for us that, from then on, they really understand the correct stroke mechanics that we have so passionately taught them which they are now able to execute!!! We just LOVE IT when they GET IT, and become ABLE TO DO IT!!
- It’s all about learning the correct, efficient, effortless & painless strokes that will IMPROVE FOREVER!! The Students’ Mission now?? Practice!! Our mission – Accomplished!!
- Teaching and coaching tennis for us is all about a very strong commitment to excel as professors of the game, and in the process getting YOU the results you are looking for on the tennis court! It’s about getting positive results consistently with any type of student!!
- It’s about putting a big smile on our students’ face when he or she hits a perfect shot!!
- It’s about helping people reach their true potential, and play better than they thought they could ever play in their wildest dreams!!
For me, it’s big-time about using my Physical Education Bachelor Degree knowledge of the human body when it comes to understanding each and every individuals’ own capability and projected true potential.
It’s about using my own style and methods, with countless helpful analogies, most of them based on our day-to-day normal activities and actions, and many other sports too.
It’s all ABOUT making all the basic stroke fundamentals easy to understand and easy to do, with my own methods, matured and refined in 30 plus years of teaching and coaching experience!! So for me, in a nutshell, Teaching & Coaching Tennis is ABOUT Getting The Job Done!! Always!! No Matter How Challenging it is!!
Cheers! SaluTennis To All!
Coach Mauro Marcos
To learn more about Coach Mauro, click here.
From Coach Kyril:
Over 20 years ago, I went from a broke, skinny high school senior who didn’t even know how to hold a tennis racket to become an NCAA Div. 1 All-Conference college tennis player in under a year.
How did that happen?
Was it an ‘accident’?
A fluke?
It happened because time-tested principals were (unknowingly at the time) embraced and executed, so that even a skinny dork (which I definitely was) could gain some measure of what could be called ‘success’ on the tennis court.
If you’re frustrated with your tennis game, and are ready to unleash the great tennis player that is buried inside of you, then you’ve come to the right place.
What started out as a couple of YouTube videos has grown into something much more – something that Coach Mauro and I eat, sleep and breathe.
That ‘something’ is our passion about making YOU and YOUR tennis game better!
We have a lot of resources for you here at The Tennis Vault, and we have so much still to show you!
So go ahead, check out some of the success stories at the top of the page, and discover how people just like you are taking their game to the ‘next level’.
Then join the family! We always have some type of special offer running on the main page, because we want to prove to YOU that we really can help you play better tennis!
We’ve got over 8 hours of instruction in the Members Area for you (we just uploaded our first and newest 45 minute Hi-Definition video, shot from three different angles) and we are currently editing over 9 more hours of brand new, Hi-Definition, real-life ‘Here’s-how-you-do-it’ videos that we will be uploading to the Vault Members Area as we finish them. So we’ve got you covered.
From two people who really do care about you and your game (yes – we actually DO answer our own emails), get ready…because we’re just getting warmed up!
- Coach Kyril Popoff
{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }
so you’re actually a bowler. we should go sometime. but not on a wall shot. that’s too boring.
Hi Jacob,
Yup, absolutely.
Yes, it was possible – I did it, that’s how I know
What did I do to get so good?
I followed a few rules that were laid out for me by my good friend Mihai (who was actually a table tennis player, of all things!); and I busted my tail.
I lay out the gory details in my ebook “Focus and Win: Why Your Tennis Game Isn’t Where You Want It To Be, And What To Do About It!”
Currently, it is not for sale but is available for download to members in The Tennis Vault Members Area.
Also, I went by my middle name, George, through high school and college (was never too keen on getting everyone I met to try to pronounce my given name of ‘Kyril’, so there’s the story behind that).
But, I will share with you the time line.
I started playing tennis during Labor Day weekend of 1986.
Six months later I went out for the Lakewood High School tennis team in Lakewood, OH.
I made the team, played #2 singles behind Dave Tonidandel, made all-conference team, voted Most Improved Player.
During the 3rd week of August, 1987 I walked on to the Cleveland State University tennis team and played #2 singles and #1 doubles with Tim Muccino. We were in the AMCU-8 Conference (now the Horizon conference), and we both made the all-conference team. Cleveland State is still a good Div. 1 tennis school, and has been to the NCAA National Championships several times over the last few years. Go Vikings!
Hope that helps! – Coach Kyril
Interesting trivia note: My Dad never taught or encouraged me, my brothers or sister how to play tennis (we grew up in bowling alleys); yet he had actually played high school tennis for the Canton-McKinley Bulldogs and was the OHSAA State Doubles Runner-Up in 1957 as a junior. He also played for the CSU Vikings in ’74 and ’75, and is still the oldest varsity athlete in school history, having played his last match in May of 1975 at the age of 35 years, two months old.
Did you really go from not knowing how to play tennis to d1 player in 1 year? I cant imagine that being possible? Can you explain that and what you did to get so good?