TWA - Tennis With Attitude

Hello out there to everyone who loves the game of tennis as much as we do, and to everyone who has the will and drive to perform to the utmost when out on the tennis court. Our team consists of a coaching staff experienced in drawing out a player's potential, and this team loves nothing more than helping future champions do just that: to be their best, on and off the court.

The TEAM:
Jakub Zahlava - Director of Sports
Former German tennis champion, Jakub has participated in all ATP and WTA Grand Slam tournaments, both as a professional tennis player and as a GPTCA Gold License certified tennis coach. Until just recently, he was very successful as head coach in charge of junior professionals at the Schüttler-Waske Tennis Academy, based in Frankfurt.

Steffen Herm - General Manager
Steffen has been very successful in youth tennis for decades, having won numerous awards for excellence. In 2008, his tennis school in Esslingen was awarded the best tennis school in Germany by the German Tennis Federation (VDT/DTB) and two years later, he was elected best tennis coach of the year in Baden Württemberg by the State Tennis Federation (WTB). Steffen is a certified A-License tennis instructor.

Thomas Renz - Head Coach, Tennis
As a former German tennis champion as well as a former National League tennis player for the TEC Waldau, Thomas went on to become successful certified A-License Head Coach at TEC Waldau himself, where he coached the National League tennis players (both men's and women's tennis) and young, talented junior players. Thomas has also accompanied players to Grand Slam and Master tournaments.

Malte Hartmann - Head Coach, Fitness
Malte is an accredited sports scientist who has worked with tennis players and other top German junior athletes for quite some time. Malte is also a Z-Health Performance Solution Trainer, a cutting-edge training method backed by neuroscience. We see the future of athletic training heading in this direction, and are excited to be among the first to implement it at our facility; teaching our athletes that training hard is good, but training "smart" is better.

Dominik Graf - Coach, Fitness
Dominik is also an accredited sports scientist with years of experience working with top athletes. Among other things, he is the athletic coach for the under-17 football players at the SG Sonnenhof Großaspach, a German association football club. Dominik is also a Z-Health Performance Solution Coach and together with Malte, make up a successful athletic coaching duo who both happen to have been former tennis players.

Of course, we also work with doctors, physical therapists and nutritionists. All pulling together in a concerted effort to make our athletes become the best that they can be. We are your Team!