Mike Manzella
Fabio Vasconcellos, who has been the tennis director at Naples Grande Beach Resort, will be leaving at the end of the month to return to his native Brazil. Mike Manzella succeeds him, moving over from the nearby Windstar Club.
Jonathan Sarosiek has been promoted to Director of Tennis at Wintergreen Resort, a 22-court facility in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Charlottesville, VA. He also continues to direct the Wintergreen Tennis Academy, a year-round program and bundles groups clinics with private lessons and sports psychology sessions.
Christian Warnholtz, a former Top 40 player in his native Mexico, has replaced Alex Korch as tennis director at Punta Mita on Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit.
George Cobia has joined the staff of Hidden Dunes Beach & Tennis Resort as its head professional. A USPTA-certified pro, he brings 25 years of teaching experience to the position, most recently as director of the Pensacola Athletic Club
Dave Sivertson has been named tennis director at the Mission Hills Country Club.
Peter Burwash International’s Pat Dennehy has taken over a director at the Westin Mission Hills Resort, also in Rancho Mirage. Jeff Banwer, who had been there, left to join Sivertson at Mission Hills County Club.
Yaz Tavatli has left The Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona to pursue other ventures and as of now a new tennis director has yet to be named.
Dara SOK, who previously helped run the PBI programs at the Four Seasons Resort Nevis, has joined another management company, Team Advantage, and oversees the six-court tennis complex shared by Sugar Beach Resort and La Pirogue on the west coast of the island of Mauritius east of Madagascar.