Nick Bollettieri, a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, has invested in the sports coaching and operations app Bounx. Bollettieri, 90, is well-known for his tennis coaching career, which included working with Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova, Boris Becker, Monica Seles, Aaron Krickstein, Jimmy Arias, and Tommy Haas, among others.
The Bounx app assists coaches with management tasks such as player bookings, attendance tracking, lesson scheduling, and providing training feedback to players. Bounx also has an in-app point system that rewards players based on their performance and incentivizes them to meet training objectives.
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In 1978, Bollettieri founded the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Fla. He sold it to IMG in 1987, and, in 2012, it was renamed IMG Academy, the multi-sport complex and prep boarding school for elite student athletes.
“After piloting with sports clubs across the globe for the past two years, we are now ready for a full-market release with a truly unique, gamified club management platform that great coaches will naturally understand how to use and clubs can trust to run their business effortlessly,” Bounx founder and CEO Julian R. Ellison said in a statement.
