Tenacious Tennis Academy
Tenacious Tennis Academy at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132
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Tenacious Tennis Academy offers tennis camps, clinics, and classes, including Summer Camps, Tennis Camps, Kids Camp, Junior Camp, and High Performance programs. The program also offers private and group instruction, Junior Spring Program sessions, High Performance Clinics, and color ball clinics such as Yellow Ball, Green Ball, Orange Ball, and Red Ball Clinics. Additional options include an Adult Class, a Junior Yellow Ball Class, and games such as Around the World and TTF (Touch The Fence).
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: 2025 Fall Season runs September 8 – December 21, and 2026 Spring Season runs January 5 – June 7; office hours are Monday–Friday, 8AM–7PM.
• Price: Tenacious Tennis Academy offers gift cards in $100, $150, and $200 amounts.
Tenacious Tennis Academy states that it is driven to grow the sport by increasing access to premier tennis opportunities in San Francisco and offers private and group instruction to players of all ages and levels. The academy states that it helps players cultivate a passion and respect for the sport and aims to inspire pupils to confront challenging experiences through competition and achieve growth as people and as tennis players. Tenacious Tennis Academy emphasizes core values of Growth, Integrity, Teamwork, Respect, Tenacity, and Safety.
The leadership and coaching team includes Jesse (Founder, Head Coach), Liuba, Bjoern, Ion, David, and Jordi as coaches. Staff credentials include Jesse Inghelram, a former top-100 U.S. singles player who reached No. 62 nationally in singles and No. 11 in doubles, is a three-time SF All-City High School Singles Champion and four-time finalist, competed for the UC Santa Barbara men’s varsity team, and played on the ITF Futures circuit during his university career. Coach Ion is an NCAA Division I National Champion with the University of Georgia and competed in professional tournaments in Europe and the US. David Halleck (Coach Dave) was the #1 player and Team Captain at Vassar College, won a Bronze Ball at grass court nationals in his senior career, and has 20 years of experience coaching junior players in the Bay Area, including serving as traveling team coach at USTA Zonals. Jordi Dasi Pascual is a tennis player who graduated from Lee University with a major in Business Administration and earned a UTR of 11.3 in Spain playing for Javi Piles Tennis Academy with a ranking of #129 in the nation. Andrea Pascual Blanca is a Spanish tennis player currently playing for Prairie View A&M in Houston, Texas, and in her first year was selected as MVP of her team and the position four in all conference first team. The academy states that coaches are background screened and highly trained in the art of tennis, and that personal attention is a priority with at least one coach for every 6 campers for Tiny Tots and at least one coach for every 8 campers for every other program.
Tenacious Tennis Clinics are for players of all levels ages 5 to 18. The age of campers at Tenacious Tennis Academy ranges from as young as 5 years old to adults. Tenacious Tennis Academy offers gift cards that can be purchased for lessons, clinics, camps, and other tennis programs, including a Custom Birthday Gift Card option. Discount options include Early Bird Discount Phase 1, where families that register before Thanksgiving 2025 for Tenacious 2026 Camps receive 20% off camp reservation fees during the limited time offer; Phase 2, where families that register after Thanksgiving 2025 and before 2025 New Year’s Eve receive 15% off; and Phase 3, where families that register after 2025 New Year’s Eve and before June 2026 receive 10% off. A Family Discount offers 5% off the second and subsequent siblings for families that register more than one sibling, and a Multi-Camp Week Registration Discount offers 5% off for families that register a camper for more than one weekly camp session. If eligible, the family discount and the multi-camp week registration discount can be combined for a maximum of 10% off, and these discounts cannot be combined with the early bird discounts.
Parent testimonials describe the camps and clinics as really well run and note that Jesse is described as great with teens and does a job coaching and encouraging them. One grandparent reports that a 12-year-old grandson attended a week-long half-day tennis camp, asked to stay for full days, and that the camp included tennis practice, different games related and unrelated to tennis, various physical activities, healthy snacks with lots of fruits, games such as Around the World and TTF (Touch The Fence), prizes at the end of the week, and a friendly atmosphere where the child made friends and became a more confident player. Another parent reports that coaches provided personalized attention, individual feedback, and guidance, which they state helped their child improve technique, build confidence, and develop a genuine love for the game.
Last updated March 7, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: 2025 Fall Season runs September 8 – December 21, and 2026 Spring Season runs January 5 – June 7; office hours are Monday–Friday, 8AM–7PM.
• Price: Tenacious Tennis Academy offers gift cards in $100, $150, and $200 amounts.
Tenacious Tennis Academy states that it is driven to grow the sport by increasing access to premier tennis opportunities in San Francisco and offers private and group instruction to players of all ages and levels. The academy states that it helps players cultivate a passion and respect for the sport and aims to inspire pupils to confront challenging experiences through competition and achieve growth as people and as tennis players. Tenacious Tennis Academy emphasizes core values of Growth, Integrity, Teamwork, Respect, Tenacity, and Safety.
The leadership and coaching team includes Jesse (Founder, Head Coach), Liuba, Bjoern, Ion, David, and Jordi as coaches. Staff credentials include Jesse Inghelram, a former top-100 U.S. singles player who reached No. 62 nationally in singles and No. 11 in doubles, is a three-time SF All-City High School Singles Champion and four-time finalist, competed for the UC Santa Barbara men’s varsity team, and played on the ITF Futures circuit during his university career. Coach Ion is an NCAA Division I National Champion with the University of Georgia and competed in professional tournaments in Europe and the US. David Halleck (Coach Dave) was the #1 player and Team Captain at Vassar College, won a Bronze Ball at grass court nationals in his senior career, and has 20 years of experience coaching junior players in the Bay Area, including serving as traveling team coach at USTA Zonals. Jordi Dasi Pascual is a tennis player who graduated from Lee University with a major in Business Administration and earned a UTR of 11.3 in Spain playing for Javi Piles Tennis Academy with a ranking of #129 in the nation. Andrea Pascual Blanca is a Spanish tennis player currently playing for Prairie View A&M in Houston, Texas, and in her first year was selected as MVP of her team and the position four in all conference first team. The academy states that coaches are background screened and highly trained in the art of tennis, and that personal attention is a priority with at least one coach for every 6 campers for Tiny Tots and at least one coach for every 8 campers for every other program.
Tenacious Tennis Clinics are for players of all levels ages 5 to 18. The age of campers at Tenacious Tennis Academy ranges from as young as 5 years old to adults. Tenacious Tennis Academy offers gift cards that can be purchased for lessons, clinics, camps, and other tennis programs, including a Custom Birthday Gift Card option. Discount options include Early Bird Discount Phase 1, where families that register before Thanksgiving 2025 for Tenacious 2026 Camps receive 20% off camp reservation fees during the limited time offer; Phase 2, where families that register after Thanksgiving 2025 and before 2025 New Year’s Eve receive 15% off; and Phase 3, where families that register after 2025 New Year’s Eve and before June 2026 receive 10% off. A Family Discount offers 5% off the second and subsequent siblings for families that register more than one sibling, and a Multi-Camp Week Registration Discount offers 5% off for families that register a camper for more than one weekly camp session. If eligible, the family discount and the multi-camp week registration discount can be combined for a maximum of 10% off, and these discounts cannot be combined with the early bird discounts.
Parent testimonials describe the camps and clinics as really well run and note that Jesse is described as great with teens and does a job coaching and encouraging them. One grandparent reports that a 12-year-old grandson attended a week-long half-day tennis camp, asked to stay for full days, and that the camp included tennis practice, different games related and unrelated to tennis, various physical activities, healthy snacks with lots of fruits, games such as Around the World and TTF (Touch The Fence), prizes at the end of the week, and a friendly atmosphere where the child made friends and became a more confident player. Another parent reports that coaches provided personalized attention, individual feedback, and guidance, which they state helped their child improve technique, build confidence, and develop a genuine love for the game.
Last updated March 7, 2026.
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