Biographies

Guillermo Canas, Co Founder-Director Player Development

willy-foto Guillermo, a professional player since 1995, is one of the most recognizable tennis figures in the world. A product of Argentina, Guillermo reached an ATP World Ranking of eighth in 2005 and 2007. He won seven ATP singles championships, including wins over Roger Federer, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Marat Safin, Tommy Haas, and Andy Roddick .

“Creating a tennis academy is the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. As a boy growing up in Argentina, I had to create my own path to an established career. Now, through the Cañas Tennis Academy players from around the world will come to Miami to fulfill their dreams. Opening CTA is on par with representing my home country of Argentina in the 2008 Olympics.”

Plays: Right-handed; two-handed backhand

Singles

SINGLES

Career Titles: 7
Carrer Finals: 9
Highest ranking: No. 8 (June 6, 2005)
Career record: 250–190

Doubles

DOUBLES:

Career Titles: 2
Highest ranking: No. 47 (July 15, 2002)
Career record: 61–82

Grand Slam Results

GRAND SLAM RESULTS

Australian Open: 4R (2004, 2005)
French Open: QF (2002, 2005, 2007)
Wimbledon: 4R (2001)
US Open: 3R (2004)

Davis Cup

DAVIS CUP

Appearances:  11 Play off´s
Summary:  Singles 5-2   Doubles 4-3
Best result:  Semifinal (2008)

Olympic Games

OLYMPICS GAMES

Competed in BEIJING 2008

 

Martin Garcia, Co Founder - Director Player Development

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Professional player since 1996

Martin dedicated his life to tennis excellence. Ranked as high as 21 in the world in doubles, Martin won 8 ATP titles, also, former Argentina Davis Cup team member. Wins over Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal , Novak Djokovic, Andy Roddick, J.C Ferrero and Fernando Gonzales in doubles among others. Martin was elected to the ATP Players Council ;  a testament to his character and understanding of the game. Joining ten players, including Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, Martin served on the council for four years.

 

Doubles

DOUBLES

Career Titles: 8
Carrer Finals: 14
Highest ranking: No. 21 (May 25, 2000)
Career record: 188-188

Singles

SINGLES

Highest ranking: No. 342 (February 2, 1998)

Grand Slam Results

GRAND SLAM RESULTS

Australian Open: R16 (2001)
French Open: SF (2001); R16 (2005)
Wimbledon: R16, (2006); R32 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2007);
US Open: R32 (2001, 2003)

Davis Cup

DAVIS CUP

Appearances:  3 Play off´s
Summary:    Doubles 2-1  Singles 0-1

 

Gustavo Oribe, Co Founder- Academy Director

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Gustavo, a graduate of Florida International University and a resident of Miami, combines international business experience with coaching and playing tennis in world championship level tournaments. As the Academy Director, Gustavo brings the needed business knowledge, and managerial skills to the CTA.

 

Nicolas Maidana

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Nicolas has a vast experirience in the ITF, ATP and WTA tour as a professional coach for more than 7 years. He's been training and traveling players such as Estefania Craciun (220 WTA), Soledad Esperon (280 WTA), Salut Aranza (300 WTA), Auroux Milen (320 WTA), Diego Veronelli (171 ATP), Gaston Grimolizi (440 ATP), Joaquin Cohen (World Number 1 Junior Boys 16's) and Maria Fernanda Alvarez Teran (200 WTA)Maria Fernanda Alvarez Teran (200 WTA) among others.

 

Juan Manuel Galarza, Staff Coach

Juan Manuel Galarza

The only I.T.F. coach Level III in Argentina. Received in Valencia, Spain the Master on High Performance during the course of three months. (Scholarship awarded by the I.T.F.)
Juan was responsible for the technical and methodological areas of the Argentine Institute of Tennis (www.institutoargentinodetenis.com.ar). Coordinator of tennis in Country Club Golfers (www.golferscc.com.ar).
He spoke in the technical field and methodology courses in the International Federation Tennis (ITF) and the Argentina Tennis Association (AAT)
Worked with junior players ranked nationally (AAT) and Top 3 to South American level (COSAT) such as Juan Ignacio Galarza. Top 20 I.T.F. and top 516 A.T.P. such as Daniel Taro. He travelled with juniors and professionals to European and South American I.T.F. and A.T.P. circuits

 

Carlos "Caco" Aranda, Strength & Conditioning Coach

Carlos Caco Aranda

Carlos Aranda has physically trained players for over 24 years. He started coaching junior tennis players of international level, while studying Physical Education at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso in Chile. In his beginnings as a coach, he trained many junior players and some of them were later worldwide known: Nicolas Massu and Paul Capdeville.
Since 1994, he trains professional players such as Paula Cabezas, Sergio Cortes, Hermes Gamonal, Marcelo Rebolledo among others. During 1996-2004 a new stage begins, when he develops large projects internationally working with Fernando Gonzalez (1996-2001), Nicolas Lapentti (1998-2004), Ramon Delgado (2000) and Mariano Zabaleta (2000) among others.
Fernando Gonzalez had virtually no ranking when they begin and at the end of the process Fernando was a player who was within 100 of the ATP. Nicolas Lapentti began when he was ranked 96 (ATP) 1998, and managed to become Top 10 and located at position 6 of the ATP ranking and was recognized by the ATP as the best performance players in 1999.
After spending many years on the ATP circuit and being in most major tournaments in the world, in 2002 he became a member of this organization, in the Division 1 coaches joining a select group that does not exceed 70 members worldwide.

 

Paul Jaure

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Paul Jaure was born in New York City and moved to Mendoza, Argentina at an early age.
He then returned to the United States as an adolescent to pursue a career as a professional golfer.
The result was attending F.I.U on a full scholarship where he concluded with a psychology degree.
The professional circuit was no longer appealing to Paul, but the study of the human mind and how competition inhibits performance became his passion.
He successfully accomplished the development of a psychological routine which eliminates fear during competition and can be effectively applied to tennis and all other sports. Paul’s work is celebrated by several ITF, ATP and WTA players as well as PGA Tour and European PGA golfers, he has appeared in numerous guest spots on the Golf Channel.