About this speaker
Dr. Mark Kovacs
CEO, Kovacs Institute (www.kovacsinstitute.com)
Executive Director, International Tennis Performance Association (www.itpa-tennis.org )
@mkovacsphd
Dr. Mark Kovacs is a leading sport scientist and coach for high performance tennis players. He has personally coached and trained over two dozen Top 100 ATP and WTA professionals including John Isner, Frances Tiafoe, Reilly Opelka, Madison Keys and Sloane Stephens. He formerly directed the Sport Science, Strength & Conditioning and Coaching Education departments for the United States Tennis Association (USTA) and was the Director of the Gatorade Sport Science Institute. He has also served as the Senior Director of Sports Science & Health for the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA. He is considered a leading tennis serve expert and also is highly focused on optimizing tennis specific movement. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the International Tennis Performance Association (iTPA) which is the leading sport science and tennis fitness organization in the world with members in over 40 countries (www.itpa-tennis.org ). He was the chair of the ITF Health Benefits of Tennis Taskforce and is currently the Chair of the PTR Sport Science Committee. Dr. Kovacs is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and he was an All-American and NCAA doubles champion in tennis at Auburn University and has been a leading consultant to the ATP and WTA Tours as well as nearly a dozen Top tennis Associations around the world. He is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), Certified Tennis Performance Specialist (CTPS) and Master Tennis Performance Specialist (MTPS) through the iTPA, and in 2012 he was the youngest ever recipient of the International Tennis Hall of Fame Educational Merit Award. He has worked with hundreds of elite athletes in dozens of sports providing high performance sport science services and has worked with the Brazil National Soccer Team, members of the US Women’s National Soccer Team along with over a dozen top American Universities including Harvard, Princeton, University of North Carolina, Georgia Tech, Arizona State University, University of Southern California and Vanderbilt in various areas of sport science. Over the past few years he established the Kovacs Institute in Atlanta, Georgia where he offers exclusive and bespoke services for elite individuals and companies looking to optimize sport, business and lifestyle success through the latest performance sciences in addition to online education (www.kovacsinstitute.com ).