Johan Kriek Tennis Academy

Johan Kriek featured in USA Today

jvgreene — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:02:47 +0000

Great article about Johan Kriek in the USA Today written by Erik Gudris. Read the article.

Summer Camps with a multiple Grand Slam Champion are almost here!

jvgreene — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:04:32 +0000

Come and train hard at the Johan Kriek Tennis Academy in Charlotte, NC. Supervised housing available. Sign up now! Find out more…

JKTA welcomes Renier Moolman

jvgreene — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:29:54 +0000

Johan Kriek Tennis Academy welcomes former number 95 junior in the world, Renier Moolman, to the academy! Renier, who calls Randburg, South Africa his home, won the doubles title at the 2010 African Championships and finished in third place in singles. In 2009, he won an ITF junior singles championship in Israel and doubles titles in Israel and Botswana. The South African helped his nation reach the finals of the 2008 World Team Tennis Championships in New Zealand. In July of 2011, Renier reached the quarterfinals of a Futures tournament in Saksatoon, Canada. The South African reached an ATP ranking of 1152 in August of 2011 before deciding to play college tennis at Wake Forest. This year Renier decided to go back on the ATP Tour and has chosen our academy to be his training base. Johan Kriek is very impressed with Renier and believes he has a potential to do very well on the tour with proper coaching and guidance. Welcome Renier!!

Footage of Johan Winning his Second Australian Open in 1982

jvgreene — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:44:53 +0000

Big thank you to “fourgrandslams” for uploading this video on YouTube! Here is Johan Kriek winning his second Australian Open in 1982.

An Interview with Johan by Marcin Michalewski

jvgreene — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:39:35 +0000

Another article for Polish speaking tennis fans. This two part Interview with Johan Kriek conducted and written by Marcin Michalewski about Johan’s perspective of the upcoming Australian Open and how he thinks Polish players will do this year.

Read Part 1 In Polish
Read Part 1 translated into English

Read Part 2 In Polish
Read Part 2 translated into English

An Interview with Alicja Sierzputowska

jvgreene — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:28:32 +0000

For our Polish speaking tennis friends, here is an Interview with Poland’s number 1 junior player, Alicja Sierzputowska, about her experience training at our academy. Alicja is scheduled to play a couple of tournaments in Poland and will be returning to train at our academy in February. Her brother, Piotr, will be back as well to coach.

Read the Article In Polish
Read the article translated into English

Parenting Aces Radio Interview with guest Johan Kriek

jvgreene — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:27:34 +0000

Join host Lisa Stone and guest Johan Kriek to discuss various aspects of parenting a junior tennis player from the 10-and-unders through college.

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Welcome Alicja Sierzputowska to JKTA

jvgreene — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 02:17:29 +0000

The Johan Kriek Tennis Academy welcomes Poland’s number 1 14-and-under junior player, Alicja Sierzputowska! “I strongly believe that Alicja will be the next top player coming out of Poland,” says Johan Kriek. Alicja’s brother, Piotr Sierzputowski, was a former top junior player in Poland himself and will now share his knowledge with our junior players as a coach. We are extremely excited to have them both in our academy and are looking forward to see Alicja and our other academy player, Kayla Price, compete in the upcoming WTA events!

Johan Kriek Tennis Academy on News 14 Carolina

jvgreene — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:27:41 +0000

Johan Kriek was featured on News 14 Carolina talking about our tennis academy in Charlotte. You can watch it below:

Johan Kriek on “talk10s with hans”

jvgreene — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:54:36 +0000

For those who missed Johan Kriek live on KRXA540AM-”talk10s with hans”, you can listen to it right here: http://chirb.it/486HLD