Centro Nacional de Alto Rendimiento Deportivo
Buenos Aires, Argentina
What's new at Centro Nacional de Alto Rendimiento Deportivo
3 of today's pros grew up on these courts.
- Julia Riera #141 WTA, came at 14
- Jazmin Ortenzi #150 WTA, came at 15
- Isabel Arabarco #1507 WTA, came at 16
Argentina's national high-performance centre in Núñez, Buenos Aires: a 115,000 m² multi-sport campus with a hotel, a school and five hard tennis courts. Families do not enrol or pay here; the tennis and wheelchair-tennis associations call up selected players to camps, and scholarships go through the national federation.
5 fast (hard) tennis courts inside the Carl Diem complex
How to get in
The paths the federation publishes on Oct 15, 2026.
- National talent camps, under-10 and under-12 (Concentración Nacional de Tecnificación): kids under 10 and under 12, by call-up only: the Argentine Tennis Association picks the best-ranked players
- Sports scholarship with school and residence (Beca de Desarrollo Deportivo en la Escuela Media): boarding + school, teenagers in individual sports such as tennis, nominated by their national federation
- AAT development school at CeNARD (Escuela de desarrollo): juniors 12 to 18, the best in the country by AAT selection (players up to 23 also included)
- Wheelchair tennis school (Escuela de tenis adaptado AATA): kids and adults with a motor disability, open to everyone; no sports wheelchair needed
- Wheelchair tennis national junior camps (Concentración Nacional Junior AATA): juniors in wheelchair tennis, by call-up from the adapted tennis association
- Standing adaptive tennis (Tenis Adaptado de Pie): kids and adults with a disability who play standing: amputees, Down syndrome, short stature, reduced mobility
Deals and codes
- High-performance athlete grant: free to apply, paid monthly, requested by the athlete's federation
- Scholarship covering lodging, meals, training and medical care: federation-signed form by Nov 30
The facts
- Tennis courts: 5 (hard)
- Campus: 115,000 m² (multi-sport campus in Núñez, their own figure)
- Hotel beds: 340 (in the Pedro Quartucci hotel, given on the federation's request)
- Athletes a day: 1,500 (of all sports, their own figure)
- Players at the July 2026 camp: 16 (best under-10 and under-12 players, called up by the AAT)
- Students at the CeNARD school: 133 (in 2020, over half of them athletes, tennis players among them)
- Boarding: Yes, 340-bed hotel, by selection
- School on site: Yes, public secondary school
- From age: Under 10, camps by call-up
- Adults: Wheelchair tennis school only
- Visits: Not stated
- Campus: One campus in Núñez, Buenos Aires
- How to get in: No open enrolment: the Argentine Tennis Association and the adapted tennis association call up selected players; scholarships with school and residence go through your federation by Nov 30
Coaches
- Gonzalo Pressón, AAT technical department coordinator, under-12 captain
- Valeria MacLoughlin, AAT technical department coordinator
- Luciana Sarmenti, Under-12 national team captain
- Eduardo Ojea, Wheelchair tennis coach (AATA)
- Mariano Mennielli, Wheelchair tennis coach (AATA)
- Manuel Manti, Wheelchair tennis juniors coach
- Carlos Berlocq, Guest coach at AAT camps, tactics
- Alejandro Cerúndolo, Guest coach at AAT camps, competition planning
Tournaments they host
- Master AATA Tour. January, the 12 best wheelchair singles players of the year's circuit
Where it is
Padre Canavery, C1429BMC Buenos Aires.
Nearest airport: Aeroparque Jorge Newbery (AEP), 4 km
Also in Argentina
- Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club 3 km, Buenos Aires. 2 pros raised, best Roman Andres Burruchaga #62 ATP
- Círculo Trovador 3 km, Vicente López. 1 pro raised, best Juan Bautista Torres #298 ATP
- Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima de Buenos Aires 4 km, Buenos Aires. 1 pro raised, best Alex Barrena #212 ATP
- Academia Toto Cerúndolo (Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires) 9 km, Buenos Aires. 1 pro raised, best Francisco Cerundolo #21 ATP
- Academia Hood & Monachesi 9 km, Buenos Aires. 1 pro raised, best Facundo Diaz Acosta #71 ATP
- Academia de Fabian Blengino 9 km, Buenos Aires. 1 pro raised, best Camilo Ugo Carabelli #75 ATP
- Club Sportivo Villa Ballester 10 km, Villa Ballester, Buenos Aires. 1 pro raised, best Sebastian Baez #49 ATP
- Academia Jose Luis Clerc 15 km, Villa Soldati, Buenos Aires. 1 pro raised, best Sebastian Baez #49 ATP
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