The Partners

Always by our side

I Tennis Foundation can boast leading main partners who have decided to embrace the idea and the project “Little Tennis Champions” by putting their experience at the service of I Tennis Foundation.

Sport e Salute

Appointed to support all CONI’s activities, Sport e Salute is involved in the development of sport in Italy, through the promotion of healthy lifestyles among all sectors of the population in order to improve the health and well-being of individuals.

The initiative promoted by the I Tennis Foundation is perfectly in line with Sport e Salute’s projects.

Together we will build initiatives to spread the values of a healthy sporting culture to participants.

Emilio Sanchez Academy

The Academy is a high-performance training centre led by Emilio Sanchez, a champion of the past and one of the greatest coaches of the present, who chairs the technical committee of I Tennis.

It has 4 campuses worldwide and today is one of the most prestigious tennis schools hosting ATP and WTA players.

Ljubicic Tennis Academy

The academy is located in Lošinj, in a perfect environment that allows young talent and established tennis players full immersion in the game, without distractions. 

Founded in 2021 by Ivan Ljubic, Roger Feder’s current coach, it aims to become the best tennis performance centre in the world, whose focus is on tailor-made programmes that push players out of their comfort zone and into the next step, which includes professional coaching, mental preparation and internationally certified instruction.

Top Five

TOP5 is a leading tennis management agency led by Stephane Gurov, which includes among its clients Elina Svitolina (best-ranking WTA n. 3) and 6 other female top 100 players.

The support of management experts is necessary since the age of 11-12 years as the kids start competing in international tournaments and need the guidance of an agency that shall introduce them in the professional circuit and is a point of reference for their future.

Stephane Gurov

Forte Village Resort

The Forte Village Resort, located a few kilometres from Cagliari, within the enchanting Sardinia, in an area full of spotless white beaches and uncontaminated bays, has a very strong sporting vocation. 

The Forte Village Tennis Academy offers 13 tennis courts and throughout the year hosts 30 international ITF men’s and women’s tennis tournaments, which makes the Resort one of the best Italian sports references for tennis.

Forte Village - Sardegna

Laureus Italia Foundation

The Laureus Italia Onlus Foundation has been working in the suburbs of Milan, Naples and Rome since 2005 to support children living in situations of severe socio-economic deprivation. In more than 10 years, Laureus Italia has involved more than 5000 children in over 14 projects offering more than 20 different sports activities. 
Laureus Italia’s work is based on the construction of an important socio-sports network that includes over 30 sports associations and 20 schools, and on the development of a precise intervention model.
 

PTR

PTR is a non-profit association with the aim of providing continuous professional training for tennis teachers worldwide and contributing to the growth and promotion of tennis.

It represents the association of tennis teachers with the largest number of members in the world and is recognised by many Federations, Teachers’ Associations and International Organisations (ITF, Tennis Europe) with which it collaborates.

PTR

PTR is a non-profit association with the aim of providing continuous professional training for tennis teachers worldwide and contributing to the growth and promotion of tennis.

It represents the association of tennis teachers with the largest number of members in the world and is recognised by many Federations, Teachers’ Associations and International Organisations (ITF, Tennis Europe) with which it collaborates.

TS-College Tennis

TS-College Tennis is an official partner of FIT and PTR Italy for the assistance and research of sports and academic scholarships for university in the United States. 

The aim is to create new opportunities and lay the foundations for a successful life after university studies by taking into account various factors including academic profile, tennis level, personal interests and family financial requirements.

As part of the “Little Tennis Champions” project, TS-College Tennis will support athletes who, at the end of their four-year course, decide to continue their tennis activities by also continuing their studies and obtaining a scholarship to an American university.

TicketOne

TicketOne is an Italian company, founded in 1998, operating in the ticketing sector for music, theatre, sport, cinema and culture events. Since 2007, TicketOne has been part of the German international group CTS Eventim.

Tennis Italiano

Tennis Italiano is the oldest tennis magazine in the world, a reference point for all racket sports lovers, which has always covered the accomplishments of great players with authority, passion and the ability to capture their nuances. The objectives of solidarity, social inclusion and training of Little Tennis Champions fit perfectly with the editorial line of the monthly magazine both in its printed version, on social networks, and also on the website

Tennis Talker

The first tennis social network, with the aim of providing all tennis enthusiasts with all information on players and tournaments, acquired through public domain archives, reorganised in a suitable and easily intelligible form.

City of Turin

The City of Turin, which has always been committed to the promotion of sport, is sponsoring the initiative with regard to the selections of Piedmontese children.

Ex-Mayor Chiara Appendino, the new Vice-President of the Italian Tennis Federation, personally supports Little Tennis Champions as an honorary member of the I Tennis Foundation.

The Nitto ATP FINALS 2021-2025, which she strongly desired and obtained, represent an important event for Italy and for Turin, where the students selected for LTC also participated and will participate.

Piedmont Region

The Piedmont Region has believed in this project since the beginning, granting its endorsement and supporting the initiative in terms of communication.

President Alberto Cirio, who is also very committed to promoting sport in the Piedmont region, personally shares the project’s values of meritocracy and social inclusion.

Unione Industriali Torino

The Unione Industriali di Torino is a voluntary association of companies at territorial level that is a member of Confindustria, for the representation, protection, promotion and development of companies and their interests.

The fundamental objective of the Unione Industriali Torino is to promote and protect the interests of companies and to establish an innovative, internationalised, sustainable entrepreneurial system capable of promoting the economic, social, civil and cultural growth of its territorial area as well as of the country.

The historical and always current trade union vocation has been enriched with qualified services in all strategic areas for the life of enterprises and a continuous and constant growth of its network of relations, in order to provide entrepreneurs with all opportunities to dialogue with each other, with the other components of the confederal system, with representatives and personalities from the institutional, administrative, political, economic and cultural world.

Sardinia Region

The Sardinian Region and its President, Christian Solinas, strongly support events of national and international prestige, investing in events that are an excellent business card for the island, confirming that sport is an excellent promotional tool and a driving force for tourism
For these reasons, the Region has granted its support to the Little Tennis Champions project.
Many sporting events take place in Sardinia, making the region increasingly competitive on the international scenario.

One of the Little Tennis Champions venues is the Forte Village Resort in Santa Margherita di Pula – Cagliari. Among the kids who the kids who took part to the Summer Master 2021, 3 of them will be Sardinians.

City of Cagliari

Sport is an exceptional vehicle for promoting the territory and this is why the Municipality of Cagliari and its Mayor, Paolo Truzzu, support Little Tennis Champions, an initiative that can help the city grow in terms of tourism and the economy.
  
Sardinia is attentive to sport and major events in general, and Cagliari in particular has already hosted the Davis Cup and the Sardegna Open ATP 250 as well as the World Padel Tour.
The links with the municipality of Cagliari and the strong territorial component of the Little Tennis Champions project have led to the granting of the patronage to the I Tennis Foundation.

The City of Cagliari was the venue of the press event for the presentation and launch of the Little Tennis Champions 2021 Summer Master at the Forte Village Resort, one of the excellences of the Region and the territory.

Ferrero Foundation

The Piera, Pietro and Giovanni Ferrero Foundation, established in 1983 by Michele Ferrero, is inspired by the mottoWORK, CREATE, DONATE, a philosophy that inspired the entire life of the late Mr. Michele.

Mrs. Maria Franca Ferrero, President of the Foundation and the first honorary member of the I Tennis Foundation, supports the Little Tennis Champions project and shares the vision of extending access to sport to less fortunate people.

In view of the realization of the Little Tennis Champions project, events are organized in cooperation with the Ferrero Foundation to support the initiative.

Cecilia Gilardi Foundation

For 10 years, the Cecilia Gilardi Foundation has been supporting the most deserving talents during the years of education and training to work with the aim of supporting the careers of young people in difficult economic circumstances.

In the course of its history, the Foundation has awarded around 200 scholarships and supported over 30 special projects.

The partnership with the I Tennis Foundation includes several joint initiatives such as the co-financing of the Torino Tennis Talents project, which, in synergy with Lorenzo Sonego and his coach Gipo Arbinoaims to support five talented Piedmontese players in order to sustain the costs of international tournaments outside the region.

Fondazione Cecilia Gilardi

Compagnia di San Paolo

The Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation is a foundation of banking origin and one of the oldest and largest private foundations in Europe.

It was established with the philanthropic purpose of fostering cultural, civil and economic development, thanks to the benefits of its assets, and acts to pursue three objectives: Culture, People and Planet.

The definition of these three objectives stems from the desire to align with an international and shared definition of goals: that of the United Nations, which in 2015 resolved on the 2030 Agenda.

It currently operates in the territories of Piedmont, Liguria and Valle d’Aosta.

Juventus

Juventus Summer Camp 2019 is an initiative created for boys and girls between the ages of 8 and 17; open to everyone, without any distinction between beginners and athletes. The children will have the opportunity to be followed by a staff composed of highly qualified technical staff from Juventus projects.
All technical staff is selected from FIGC licensed coaches and / or sports science graduates.