Meet our Coaches
Bill Glaves is and ATP coach who has developed numerous professional and student athletes in his 40+ years of coaching. Bill has coached touring pros to Wimbledon and Olympic titles. He has trained nationally ranked college teams at the University of Houston and Vanderbilt University. Bill achieved top-100 ranking in the world during his pro career and continues to play in tournaments today. He teaches his famous Wall theory.
Donald Stein puts a strong emphasis on mastering proper fundamentals, discipline, and work ethic. He provides his students with support, motivation, understanding, guidance, and goal-setting. He believes in using tennis and education as a vehicle for personal development. Donald is a USPTA and Wall-certified tennis professional and a member of the USTA. He attended and played tennis at St. Thomas High School and Houston Baptist University, and competes in USTA tournaments. Besides teaching and coaching tennis, he has directed programs and leagues in the Cypress/CyFair area since 2007. He considers it an honor to have been trained under coach Bill Glaves. Donald is a native Houstonian and off the court, he is a die-hard Houston sports fan and loves to play fantasy football. He is passionate about fitness and in 2014, auditioned for the "American Ninja Warrior" challenge. Donald is also a guitarist, bassist, and music composer.
Michael Nguyen was top ten in 12s and top five in 16s in southern California in the mid-1980s. He played collegiate tennis in southern California, training at camps like Nick Bollettieri's IMG Academy. Michael is a PTR certified instructor and believes that playing tennis develops the important life lessons of having a strong work ethic, taking responsibility for your actions and attitudes, and respecting others. To create successful tennis athletes, it is essential to have long-term athletic development: setting goals for technical, psychological, and proper bio-mechanics are key to being a tennis athlete vs. a tennis player. Aside from sharing his passion for tennis, he enjoys travel, fishing and camping with his family.
