Mahesh Bhupathi Tennis Academy
Bengaluru, India
2 of today's pros grew up on these courts.
- Sumit Nagal #281 ATP, came at 11
- Soha Sadiq #1468 WTA
Mahesh Bhupathi's chain of tennis academies, founded in 2006 and run from Bengaluru, coaching kids and adults at partner schools, clubs and malls across India, with one centre in Dubai. Their website has been offline since 2025 and their Instagram has not posted since March 2023, so what is shown here comes from their last archived site and may be out of date.
Programmes and prices
What they sell and what it costs, as published on Oct 14, 2026.
- Group coaching: beginner, intermediate and advanced: kids and juniors, grouped by age and level. Price on request
- Half-court progressive tennis: young kids starting out. Price on request
- School tennis programme: kids up to Class 5, during class time. Price on request
- One-week high-intensity camps: kids and juniors already training at their centres. Price on request
- Adult groups: adults, at some centres (Ghaziabad, Pune, Vadodara). Price on request
- Corporate tennis programmes: adults, company teams. Price on request
- Dubai centre, Mirdif: kids from tots to juniors 9 to 15, in Dubai. Price on request
The facts
- Founded: 2006 (by Mahesh Bhupathi)
- Venues in India: 24 (schools, clubs and malls on their last published list, plus one in Dubai)
- Children coached: 8,000+
- Coaches: 90+
- School programme: 36 (weeks a school year, for kids up to Class 5)
- Offices: 3 (Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune)
- Boarding: Not mentioned
- School on site: Coaching inside partner schools
- From age: Not stated
- Adults: Groups at some centres
- Visits: Not stated
- Locations: 24 in India, 1 in Dubai
- How to get in: Sign-up form on their old site (name, age, location); no tryout described
Coaches
- Mahesh Bhupathi, Founder and managing director
- Gaurav Natekar, CEO, former India No. 1
- Shekhar Menon, Vice president, ITF Level 1 coach
- Sharad Kumar, Head of coaching operations, ITF Level 1
- Charlotte Whitby-Coles, Head of special projects, LTA Level 2 coach
- Man Singh Thapa, Head coach, high-performance centre in Kochi
- Shelly Poovaiah, Head coach, Mysore
- Sudhir Anand, Head coach, Ghaziabad, AITA Level 1
Tournaments they host
- HCL Tennis Junior Tour and Masters. Aug to Sep 2016, four AITA events in Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow and Pune, run by them
- AITA Talent Series at Doon International School. Dec 10 to 12, 2016, under 14, Dehradun
- Intra-academy tournaments. for their own students, e.g. Megapolis Pune and Axis Mall Kolkata, last shown around 2017
Where it is
Bengaluru, India.
Also in India
- Sol Sports Academy 14 km, Bengaluru. 2 pros raised, best Kriish Tyagi #925 ATP
- Rohan Bopanna Tennis Academy 21 km, Bengaluru. 1 pro raised, best Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar #1007 ATP
- Chennai Tennis Centre 290 km, Chennai. 1 pro raised, best Manish Sureshkumar #698 ATP
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