FERRERO TENNIS ACADEMY
The Juan Carlos Ferrero Tennis Academy is located five minutes from the city of Villena and a 30-minute drive from the beach and Alicante airport. The 120,000 m2 estate is perfectly located to allow players to develop and learn freely in a safe environment where they can concentrate on their work. The excellent weather throughout the year is another huge advantage of the academy.
The first highlight of the academy are its gardens, set around the courts and the main building. Once here you will notice the peace from every corner, because our academy is far from the freeway and the noises of the city. Enjoy our maximum quality courts, always ready for you to use thanks to our maintenance team which works to always keep the academy on point.
FERRERO TENNIS ACADEMY
The Juan Carlos Ferrero Tennis Academy is located five minutes from the city of Villena and a 30-minute drive from the beach and Alicante airport. The 120,000 m² estate is perfectly located to allow players to develop and learn freely in a safe environment where they can concentrate on their work. The excellent weather throughout the year is another huge advantage of the academy.
The first highlight of the academy is its gardens, set around the courts and the main building. Upon arrival you will notice the peace from all parts of the facilities thanks to the location, far from the freeway and from the noises of the city. Enjoy our top-quality courts, always ready for you to play on thanks to our maintenance staff who work to always keep the academy on point.
WHY FERRERO?
The Ferrero Tennis Academy is renowned as one of the best tennis academies in the world. It boasts magnificent facilities, complemented by good weather all year round. They are strategically located to help players focus on their tennis.
We also have a large technical staff that works every day at the facilities, a very complete team with experience WTA and ATP experience will cover all the possible needs of a tennis player.
A large number of talented players have passed through the Academy, dominating the national and international rankings in their categories, such as Carlos Alcaraz (1 ATP), Pablo Carreño (10 ATP), Nicolás Almagro (Top 10 ATP) or David Ferrer (Top 3 ATP), among many others. And in padel like Paula Josemaría (Nº1), Agustín Tapia (Nº1), Ariadna Sánchez (Nº1) or Sanyo Gutiérrez (Nº 5) .
While all this is marvelous, and we do consider ourselves the best in the field, it is true that other large academies also count on good facilities and trainers. So, why Ferrero?
Ferrero offers two things that no other academy in the world does and we are proud of it:
The first is the fact that one of the academy's first players managed to reach the top number one. Juan Carlos Ferrero knows the players at the Academy and also supervises training sessions and the schedule. He gets involved on the court to help our players achieve their goals.
The second one is that the academy has been characterized by its family environment for the past 25 years. We feel proud to present the academy as a big family where players and staff live and learn together.
WHY FERRERO?
Ferrero Tennis Academy is characterized for being one of the best tennis academies in the world. It has magnificent facilities, which are accompanied by good weather throughout the year. They are strategically located to facilitate the players' concentration on tennis.
We also have a large technical staff that works every day at the facilities, a complete team with experience. WTA and ATP experience will cover all the possible needs of a tennis player.
A large number of talented players who top the national rankings in their categories and even the international rankings have trained at our academy, such as Carlos Alcaraz (No. 1 ATP), Pablo Carreño (No. 10 ATP), Nicolás Almagro (Top 10 ATP), David Ferrer (Top 3 ATP), Maria Sharapova (Top 1 ATP), and the Safin brothers (Top 1), among many others.
While all this is marvelous, and we do consider ourselves the best in the field, it is true that other large academies also count on good facilities and trainers. So, why Ferrero Tennis Academy?
Ferrero offers two things that no other academy in the world does which makes us proud:
The first is the fact that one of the Academy's first players managed to reach top number one. Juan Carlos Ferrero knows the players on the team and also supervises training sessions and the schedule. He gets involved to help our players achieve their goals.
The second one is that the academy has been characterized by its family environment for the past 25 years. We feel proud to present the academy as a big family where players and staff live and learn together.
About us
History
Services
Why tennis?
Villena
About us
Ferrero Tennis Academy is a world-renowned high performance tennis academy based in Villena, Spain. It was founded in 1990 by Both, and has come a long way since then, now more than 30 years old. When the Academy first opened its doors to the world, it had just two tracks and today we are proud to say that it has become one of the best academies in the world, with 25 courts of all surfaces and a world-class sports complex.
From the outset, the Academy has worked to bring out the best in each player. Antonio Martínez Cascales' intention was to provide the best facilities and conditions for young players to improve their tennis in the area and become professionals. Juan Carlos Ferrero began training under Cascales at the age of 10. His father's daily training sessions at his club led him to pick up a racket and choose this sport, which he would continue throughout his career. The Academy staff also promotes the social and cultural development of its players, caring for them as they grow.
At the academy you can enjoy your stay in our Rural Hotel with tennis, but also with padel activities, eat at the Restaurant, visit our sports store or enjoy our massages and physiotherapy treatments. The Academy is a place where many professional players have come to train with us and where they continue to work with the Competition program today. In addition, we offer and recommend sightseeing throughout the Alicante and Valencia areas during your stay.
The academy's most important program is the Annual Program, designed for players who aspire to improve their playing style. The program has a limited number of places due to the personalized training offered to players. Players are supervised at all times by our highly qualified staff: certified coaches, physical trainers, physiotherapists, nutritionists, doctors, and psychologists. All of them have experience in sports and professional tennis. During their stay in the program, a personalized training and tournament plan is developed that will be tailored to the player's level and age.
Education is also an intrinsic part of the Academy's values, both on and off the court. Players who want to combine training and studies, will have the opportunity to study at the same facilities. To achieve this, we collaborate with the Spanish Government, offering the possibility of distance learning in accordance with the guidelines of the Center for Innovation and Development of Distance Education (CIDEAD). The studies are organized by our teachers, who tailor it to each player according to their tennis program. Tutoring sessions can be held at any time, including evenings and weekends. We also offer the possibility of taking English or Spanish classes with the Academy's own teachers.
Among other things, it is worth highlighting the large number of tournaments that can be played at the Academy for all ages and levels. We are proud to host Spain's most important junior tennis tournament: ITF J300 Villena. In addition to other tournaments such as ATP Alicante Ferrero Challenger, Tennis Europe U14 and U16 or FIP Bronze in padel. In all of them, we help our players obtain Wild Cards.
For those who want to develop their tennis skills at a more social or recreational level, the Academy offers other programs, apart from high-level competition, such as mini-tennis or recreational tennis and padel activities tailored to groups and younger children. During the summer, the Academy offers the Summer Stage (during the months of June, July, and August), where children aged eight and older have the opportunity to train as our professional players do throughout the year.
History
Ferrero Tennis Academy is one of the best high-performance tennis academies in the world. At the age of 22, in 1980 Both, founded the tennis school at the club where he used to train. During the 1980s, the school came to be considered one of the best in Spain, becoming famous among young players as one of the best training grounds for professional players, as in the case of Santiago Ventura (ATP Top 50).
In 1990, Cascales founded the academy. After establishing it, Antonio Martinez Cascales (Head Coach) with Samuel López (Coach) formed a team and continued training players from there. Juan Carlos Ferrero, barely 10 years old, joined the academy as a player that same year.
In 1994, Juan Carlos became the Spanish junior champion. In 1995, Antonio Martínez Cascales decided to buy a small house and build two courts on the same site where the high-performance tennis academy he shares with Ferrero is located today.
The goal of this academy was to get the best facilities as possible for young athletes, where they could practice, improve their tennis skills and get into the professional world such as Juan Carlos Ferrero (Nº 1), Carlos Alcaraz (Nº1), Nicolas Almagro (Top 10), Pablo Carreño (Top 10), Guillermo García López (Top 50) and María Teresa Torro Flor (Top 50).
In addition to these players who have trained with us for many years, many others have passed through the academy. Among these, we can highlight Maria Sharapova who trained at our facilities for several clay court seasons, including Roland Garros, which she won, taking her to number 1, and celebrating that victory at the academy itself. Others include David Ferrer who earned his first ATP points with us, Justine Henin, the brothers Marat and Dianra Safin, Thomaz Bellucci, Maria Jose Martínez, Santiago Ventura, Marta Domachowska, Aravene Rezai, Marius Fyrstenberg, Emilio Nava, Bu Yunchaokete, Darwin Blanch, and Mohamed Safwat.
Services
In addition to training, learn about the extra options offered by the Ferrero Tennis Academy for travel, parents of players, studies, etc.
Programs
Additional Services
- Tennis
Join the school for all ages and levels (beginners, pre-competition, adults; special programs on holidays...) and/or enjoy private lessons to complement your daily activity.
- Padel
Swap your tennis racket for a paddle tennis racket and try out Spain's latest craze: schools for all ages and levels, private lessons, and even a specific competition program!
- Psychology
We all know how important mental strength is in sports, therefore, our sports psychologists are perfectly qualified to work with young athletes. We have individual, group and track classes; both theoretical and practical.
- Fitness coaching
The Academy offers specific programs tailored to your needs: intensive or regular in-person programs, either individually or in groups, to gain or lose weight. We also offer the possibility of specific programs for teams to prepare for their preseason, and even remote programs with monitoring for players who attend seasonally.
- Physhiotherapy
The Ferrero Physiotherapy Center by Fisaude, has accredited professionals with extensive experience in the sector and offers a wide range of relaxing and therapeutic massages for injury prevention and treatment. In addition, we have the latest health technology thanks to Fisaude and Indiba.
- Languages
Take advantage of your stay with us to learn english or spanish with our teachers.
- Visa Management
The academy collaborates with an international company specializing in obtaining visas. If any player requires these services, the academy will put them in contact with the company so that they can obtain the corresponding visa.
Other services:
- Rural Hotel for parents and at the Restaurant
We offer four-star rooms for parents or adults in a more exclusive area of the Academy, as well as a restaurant separate from the players' dining room so that they can feel comfortable while accompanying or visiting their children. - Physhiotherapy
The Academy has a physiotherapy service. - Transportation
We offer a pick-up and transfer service to Valencia or Alicante Airport, as well as to Villena, Alicante, or Valencia train stations. In addition, trips to tournaments are always accompanied by the coach and are made in the academy's official vehicles. - Studies
The players can study during the year with a teacher they are in charge of both Spanish and foreigners. We also offer you the possibility of learning Spanish or English, for those interested in learning the language quickly. - Bank accounts
We facilitate the procedures for opening a bank account at one of the banks in the city of Villena. In addition, players may withdraw cash from reception whenever they wish, with the respective authorization from the Academy and their parents. - Trips
From our Secretary we manage and organize the players’ travels, tournaments, trips or holidays. - Sports shop
The Academy owns a shop with the essentials materials and equipments for the trainings: tennis clothes, trainers, strings, grips, caps, racquets, etc. - Stringing
We have a quick and effective racquet string service, and a consulting and advising service in case of doubt or change of the racquet. - Trips
Sometimes, during the year, we travel to professional tournaments (Madrid Open, Davis Cup, etc.), or to different excursions such as Terra Mitica, Aqualandia, Paintball, Karting, etc. - Internet
We offer local telephone service in the rooms and Wi-Fi in the common areas of the academy. - Laundry
The academy has a cleaning service that ensures efficient use of washing machines, dryers, and irons according to students' needs. It also has self-service washing machines and dryers.
Why tennis?
Sports have been evolving and becoming more and more important in our society, what we practiced as a hobby some years ago, is now a job. There are people pursuing the summit in sports, and there is a single and existing competitiveness, due to sports have been promoted and spread all around the world.
As is common and normal, when an activity evolves, it needs control and greater organisation, hence sport is now institutionalised and has repercussions on economic, social, labour, racial, global, etc. aspects. Sport has acquired an enormous importance, and for all these reasons it is seen from a much more organic and structured organisation.
Adults and children enjoy sporting activities, with some individuals even becoming famous for their sporting prowess. Sport now has legal and social control, whether we are talking about contracts, federations, codes of conduct, services for athletes worldwide, etc. Institutions range from local neighborhoods to supranational organizations. Sport is one of the few events that can unite the masses without restrictions, and due to the great importance it has been given in recent decades, it is now studied by sciences such as anthropology, sociology, law, politics, finance, advertising, etc.
UNESCO (1989) has declared that sport is a specific competitive activity in which the practice of physical exercise is highly valued with a view to the individual achieving the perfection of their morphological, functional, and psychological potential, connected with a record in surpassing themselves or their opponent. But not only with a view to perfecting the human body, but also the spirit and certain qualities such as loyalty, energy, perseverance, and determination. For Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the international Olympic movement, sport is "the voluntary and habitual cult of intensive muscular effort, supported by the desire for progress, which can go as far as risk."
That said, Ferrero Tennis Academy adds what it considers the basic pillars of sport in general and tennis in particular in the 21st century: quality of life, fun and education; which it tries to transmit to all those who visit our facilities.
Villena
Villena is a city located in la Comunidad Valenciana, Spain, at the northwest of the province of Alicante, bordering at west on Castilla-La Mancha and Murcia, and at north on Valencia.
It is the judicial district capital and capital of the Alto Vinalopó region. It is located at an altitude of 504 meters above sea level and its municipal area covers an area of 345.6 km² (making it the second largest in the province). It has 35,222 inhabitants (INE 2009), making it the tenth largest municipality in Alicante and the 22nd largest in the Valencian Community.
It is an old town crowned by its most characteristic symbol: an ancient castle of Arab origin. At the foot of this fortress was the primitive centre of the town and the population has grown around it, surrounded by extensive fields of crops. After the Reconquest, the Manuel, Aragón and Pacheco families were its lords of illustrious lineage, and for many years it was the capital of an extensive marquisate that influenced national history.
Legal information
The Academy has taken out collective accident insurance and unlimited medical assistance at FIATC centres. For more information, please contact us.
STUDENTS and their tutors are aware that the sporting and social activities to be undertaken may involve travel outside the Academy.
The following is our financial policy with regard to tournament travel:
TOURNAMENTS WITH OVERNIGHT STAYS:
- BUDGET The player's parents/guardians will receive an estimate of the approximate cost per player per tournament.
- PAYMENT: Once the estimate has been received, the player's parents/guardians will transfer the amount to the Equelite account ES79 2100 2291 7302 0002 7142 48 hours after receiving it, otherwise the player will not be able to take part in the tournament.
- END OF THE TOURNAMENT Ferrero Academy will send an invoice to the email address of the player's parents/guardians indicating the player's actual expenses for the tournament.
If there is any money left over, the player's parents/guardians may choose to leave this amount for other smaller trips or to recover the amount left over.
REQUIREMENT TO PLAY TOURNAMENTS WITH OVERNIGHT STAYS:
- To have paid the tournament budget as indicated in point 2.
- To be up to date with the monthly payments of the Academy.
TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT OVERNIGHT STAYS
- INVOICING: The player's parents/guardians will receive a monthly invoice dated the last day of the month. The invoice includes, among other expenses, those generated in tournaments without overnight stays in which the player has been, indicating the tournament, date and coach who accompanied the player.
- PAYMENT: The Academy's payment rules must be complied with, which state that the invoice must be paid before the 20th of each month.
REQUIREMENT TO PLAY TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT OVERNIGHT STAYS:
- To be up to date with the costs of previous tournaments.
- To be up to date with the monthly payments of the Academy.
FAILURE
The result of any failure of these rules will be that the player will not be allowed to go to tournaments.
The student and his/her guardians consent and authorise that the minor may be photographed and videotaped, either at or outside the Academy, while participating in daily activities. They also consent and authorise the Academy and collaborating companies to use, in the manner and for the time they deem appropriate, these images without any consideration and without the need for consent.
The application for enrolment in the indicated programme will be considered formalised once the enrolment form has been signed and 25% of the course fee has been paid. The rest of the programme fee must be paid in full, 15 days before the start of the course. The following refund policies will apply to cancellations, where applicable:
- If cancellation is made 4 weeks before the start of the programme, 100% of the amount paid will be refunded.
- If cancellation is made at least 15 days in advance and less than 4 weeks in advance, 75% of the amount paid will be refunded.
- If cancellation is made less than 15 days before the start of the programme, no refund will be made, and the same applies if the applicant leaves the programme once it has started (for whatever reason, including illness).
- Any amounts not refunded may be used towards payment of a future course during the following calendar year.