Australian juniors George Diable, Ceressa Jackson, Brooke Komorowski and Novak Palombo are presently coaching in Mallorca.
Mallorca, Spain, 18 September 2024 | Leigh Rogers
4 of Australia’s main junior abilities are presently coaching on the Rafa Nadal Academy in Spain.
George Diable (WA), Ceressa Jackson (Qld), Brooke Komorowski (NSW) and Novak Palombo (Vic) earned this chance by triumphing of their respective age teams on the Rafa Nadal Tour Australian Masters occasion in Melbourne throughout January.
Their prize included flights to Mallorca, in addition to two weeks of free coaching on the Spanish champion’s academy.
“It’s excessive depth, so I’ve been drained on the finish of each day, but it surely’s been good enjoyable,” stated 15-year-old Diable, who named his favorite a part of the expertise as watching Nadal practice.
“The coaches have been very useful,” added Jackson, who lists Nadal as her favorite participant. The 13-year-old’s private spotlight has been a go to to the academy’s museum to see a set of Nadal’s trophies and memorabilia.
The 12-year-old Palombo echoed his friends, describing the expertise as “actually superb”.
Ceressa Jackson, Brooke Komorowski, Novak Palombo and George Diable on the Rafa Nadal Academy.
The Rafa Nadal Tour launched in Australia in 2019 and has grown to incorporate occasions in each state and territory for juniors within the 12/u and 14/u age teams. The champions from every state occasion, in addition to gamers recognised with a Trophy of Values, are invited to compete within the annual Rafa Nadal Tour Australian Masters the next January.
Komorowski has certified for the Rafa Nadal Tour Australian Masters yearly since they had been launched and is a two-time Trophy of Values winner, that are awarded to gamers with a optimistic perspective and exemplary behaviour on and off the courtroom.
After recording top-four finishes on the Rafa Nadal Tour Australian Masters within the previous two years, the 15-year-old from Sydney was thrilled to be topped champion for the primary time in January.
“It’s been an enormous motivation,” Komorowski stated of successful the journey to Spain. “It meant a lot to me.”
Komorowski hopes to “develop into No.1 on the earth and win a Grand Slam” and names Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka as her favorite gamers.
“It’s been nice to see what the opposite gamers listed below are like,” she stated of her largest classes gained from the academy go to.
“It’s been an awesome expertise. All of the coaches are so good and the coaching has been so intense.”
David Boyes, supervisor of the Rafa Nadal Tour Australia, is thrilled all 4 Australian juniors are gaining rather a lot from the expertise. He’s notably happy for Komorowski and hopes her persistence and dedication evokes future contributors.
“She had simply turned 10 years outdated when she was the Trophy of Values winner at her first occasion,” Boyes stated.
“Final yr Brooke received the South Australian occasion to qualify for her fourth Masters after which in January she received the occasion to lastly get her probability to journey to the academy in Spain. It’s an awesome instance of somebody residing the values and making issues occur.”
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