“Milos showed everybody, ‘Hey guys we can do this, we can do it right here,’ because we trained in Canada,” Curtis explained. “Believe it or not, at Blackmore (a tennis club in Ontario) the guy who owned it would let Milos and I come in at 6 a.m. But he said, ‘You guys can use the court, we’ll turn on the lights, but I’m not turning the heat on until 7 a.m.’
“And, I’m not kidding, we were in there, I’ve got gloves on sometimes, and Milos is in there hitting serves. But he showed that it could done.”
Curtis continues to work with the next generation of Canadian tennis hopefuls, who have joined him in migrating to Florida for what he describes as optimal tennis training conditions. He’s optimistic that the next generation can have success in the pro game, but acknowledges that they have a tough act to follow in the men and women that currently make up Canada’s greatest tennis generation.
Murray leads an insightful conversation on training methods, attracting the best athletes to the sport itself, and how they see the future of player development changing in the years to come. So pull up a chair and listen to the California man who journeyed north and made a sizable impact in the global growth of tennis.