What Brings You to iTUSA?
One system, three ways in. Tell us which one is yours — the form adapts.
Learn Online
Learn the methodology from your own club, applying it to your own players under review by Rafael's team.
Train With Us in Spain
On-site weeks — or the three-month certification internship — inside the academy's real training week, alongside Rafael and the resident players.
Work With iTUSA
The network is growing: the academy in Spain, remote players, clinics, international expansion. Tell us your profile and availability.
The Three-Phase Pathway
iTUSA is not recruiting students. It is recruiting the coaches it intends to build its next markets with.
The academy, Vandellòs · Tarragona. Three months on court, six days a week — dates are confirmed with selected candidates. 35 minutes by train from Barcelona.
Accommodation and meals for the full internship, travel support on arrival, and the iTUSA Coach Certification on successful completion.
Highly limited. Applications are reviewed individually.
20–30 hours a week with real players. Increasing responsibility, ongoing mentoring, the iTUSA methodology applied daily.
A two-year online program with the University of Alicante — within its College of Business. Marketing. Management. Entrepreneurship.
A paid coaching role, according to role, qualification and experience. Enrolment opens the student-visa route for international candidates; iTUSA supports you through the process.
Certified iTUSA Senior Coach: academy management, Director of Tennis roles, international partnerships and franchise opportunities.
Selected Candidate → iTUSA Intern → iTUSA Certified Coach → Professional & Academic Development → iTUSA Senior Coach → Director of Tennis → International iTUSA Partner → iTUSA Franchise Opportunities.
Based on performance, experience and available opportunities.
Who We Are Looking For
Essential
- Ambition and a career intention in tennis
- Strong playing level
- Working English
- Discipline and work ethic
- Full availability, 1 Sep – 28 Nov 2026
- Coachable — feedback applied same session
Valued
- Previous coaching experience
- Work with competitive juniors
- An existing coaching qualification
- Comfort with video and technology
- Spanish or a third language
- Interest in tennis business and management
You do not need to arrive as a finished coach. You need the level and the attitude to become one.
Phase 2 and Phase 3 opportunities follow successful completion of Phase 1 and are subject to performance, availability and applicable conditions. Completion of the internship does not in itself guarantee employment. Visa, residency and work authorisation remain subject to individual eligibility and the decisions of the competent authorities. Director of Tennis, international partnership and franchise opportunities require additional experience, approval and separate agreements. Travel support is reimbursed on arrival and commencement of the internship, up to a stated ceiling and under conditions confirmed before acceptance.
Tennis Coach Certification & Methodologyfor Coaches, Academies and Federations
Three decades of direct player development produced a methodology that can be transmitted: an assessment protocol, a correction logic, a planning structure, a review discipline. Coaches integrate it without giving up the expertise they already have. There are three ways in.
Coach Certification
A practical, on-court program covering the full development cycle, with app access and Head Coach support afterwards.
Hosted Assessment Clinics
iTUSA brings the assessment framework to your facility, with an individual report for every player.
Methodology Integration & App Access
For coaches working inside the Remote program. Academies and federations discuss scope directly with Rafael Font de Mora.
“The methodology does not replace what you already know. It gives what you know a structure that stays consistent from one player to the next.”
A Framework You Can Apply in Your Next Session
The certification seminar is practical: every module ends with the coach applying it on court, on a real player profile. What is taught is the methodology refined across decades of direct player development, not a theory built for a classroom.
Assessment Methodology
How to evaluate every criterion of the iTUSA assessment framework, document what you find, and turn it into ranked correction priorities.
Correction Plan Construction
The logic that connects assessment to correction to drill. Why this drill, for this player, at this moment.
Training Program Design
Weekly and monthly structure built around the correction plan, with measurable objectives and clear review points.
Platform Access and Use
Session logging, report generation, parent communication, Head Coach collaboration.
Reporting & Objective Review
Progress reports a parent can actually read, and that hold the process accountable.
iTUSA Certification
Official recognition, the right to enrol players in Remote Elite, and continuing Head Coach support. A certificate of completion is not a certification: certification is issued by Rafael Font de Mora on real work.
One Full Module, Free
The complete “Correcciones del Servicio” course — the serve-correction module of the iTUSA methodology — is open to every coach on the iTUSA online academy. Theory section, full video section, the same correction logic taught in the internship. ES In Spanish.
Open the free moduleWork through it, apply it in your next session — and you will know exactly what three months inside the system would give you.
“His contribution to the wider coaching community has been invaluable, sharing insight and knowledge that has shaped and continues to shape the thinking of thousands of practitioners around the world.”
“I also had the benefit of using Rafael's match analysis system in my own coaching work. It played a meaningful role in that player reaching the top ten in the yearly rankings.”
Pablo GiacopelliFormer WTA Tour coach
“Rafael and his staff operated an intensive, high-performance tennis academy that consistently hosted approximately 40 advanced junior players, using 14 of the resort's 21 courts six days per week.”
Frank “Lucky” CottenDirector of Tennis at Pebble Beach, The Broadmoor and Registry Resort Scottsdale
Places are highly limited. Applications are reviewed individually — selected candidates are invited to continue through the selection process.
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Coaching capsules, correction work and drill breakdowns — plus continuous updates on the programs built for coaches: intake dates, places left, and what the current interns are working on.
