Full Board Tennis Academy in Spain for Elite Juniors
The iTUSA system has built juniors to champion level for three decades. Its flagship full board program — the equivalent of a tennis boarding school in Spain — runs with a small group, in six-week development cycles, under head coach Rafael Font de Mora and a coaching team with WTA and ATP experience.
After more than thirty years shaping champions in Arizona and Florida, with players arriving from all over the world, iTUSA has come to Spain to answer a demand it could no longer meet from the United States alone: junior players who want professional-level development inside the iTUSA system.
Only a small group trains on site. A further selected group runs the same system from their own club, through the close-support remote program.
The Full Board Training Week, Day by Day
The academy runs a development architecture: each type of day has a role in the cycle, and the sequence matters as much as the content. The structure is deliberate because development requires specific doses of intensity, focus, competitive simulation and recovery — in the right order, at the right moment.
Intensive Development Dayfour times a week
Built around the week's correction priorities. Morning: technical and tactical targets. Afternoon: physical preparation. Evening: mental or tactical review where it is relevant. Every element ties back to a documented objective.
Technical & Recovery DayWednesday
Precision and restoration rather than rest. Slower, deliberate stroke work on the current correction targets. Video review with the coach, so the player sees what actually happened instead of what they believe happened. Lighter physical load.
Competition Prep & RegenerationSaturday
The bridge between the week's development work and the tournament cycle. Match review, tournament planning, light movement, mental reset. Players reach Sunday having processed the week rather than simply finished it.
Full RegenerationSunday
Complete rest. No optional sessions, no informal hitting. Sunday is when the week's physical adaptations consolidate, which is why it is planned with the same care as the hardest session.
"The week is not a schedule. It is a sequence. Each day prepares the next. Sunday prepares Monday."
This is the reference week. Assessments, objectives, plans, execution, reports — all is tracked and managed by an ATP/WTA head coach. Players in Remote Elite Junior run the same architecture. See Remote Elite Junior
Places Are Limited On Purpose
The limit is not a promotion. It is the number of players a Head Coach can carry personally — watching the sessions, validating every plan, knowing what each player worked on last week and what has to change this week. Past that point, attention thins and the plans start to look alike.
Players here do not add training to an existing routine. The whole week — court, physical work, competition, recovery, school — is organised around their development. Places go to commitment and readiness, not to ranking.
Daily On-Court Development
Six days a week, on a deliberate sequence: four intensive days, one technical and recovery day mid-week, competition preparation on Saturday, full regeneration on Sunday. Every session is built from the player's correction plan and the objectives of the week, and every drill traces back to a documented priority.
Professional Physical Preparation
One hour or more every training day, planned as a development session in its own right. Designed by a specialist working exclusively with professional players.
Mental Performance
Scheduled, tracked and reviewed alongside every other pillar. Each player builds a personal competition framework: what happens before the match, what happens under pressure, how the match is processed afterwards.
Competition Integration
Players enter tournaments with objectives they can name. Every match produces a report that comes back into the development cycle.
Academic Continuity
Distance learning built into the weekly schedule, with NCAA Division I guidance for players on that pathway.
Family Communication
A structured report at every review cycle, plus the Parent Dashboard. Parents see where the work stands without having to call the coach to find out.
Nutrition & Professional Habits
Preparation, punctuality, recovery management — built into the daily structure until they become the player's own habits.
The coaching team makes the development decisions. Parents bring support, stability and trust. Families who need to control every training decision will not be comfortable here. Families ready to work as partners in a professional process are exactly who this program was built for.
Final admission depends on the assessment, the commitment, the family alignment and the places available. It begins with a profile review, which commits you to nothing.
How Full-Board Admission Works
The selection process exists to establish one thing: that the player entering is ready for what the program demands, and that the program is right for them. A player admitted at the wrong moment does not progress. Five steps, and none of them is skipped.
Application
Player profile, competitive record, current training environment, and what the player is aiming for. The threshold here is commitment, not ranking.
Profile Review
The Head Coach assesses fit against the demands of the program, and gives a direct answer either way.
Assessment
On site at the academy, or through a structured remote video submission. This produces the player profile the whole development plan is built on.
Family Conversation
Head Coach and family together: objectives, expectations, what the program requires, practical logistics, and the full fee structure in writing. Agreement on the requirements is not negotiable.
Development Proposal & Admission
A personalised proposal is presented. Admission is confirmed when the family accepts it, and not before.
“My daughter has grown tremendously from a seven-year-old kid to recently graduating from Harvard as the number one player.”
Father of Maxi DuncanHarvard number one player · first undefeated Ivy League season in 25 years
Places are limited, and each one is decided the same way: an honest look at where your player stands today, and whether this environment is right for them. It starts with a player evaluation — no commitment to enrol.