Team
Trainers
The highly qualified trainers of tennis club MAX PRO share their long-term experience with all tennis professionals and amateurs. The team is made up of coaches with a license from the Bulgarian Tennis Federation and registered in the Register of Coaches of the Ministry of youth and sport or with an international license after completing a coaching course. Periodically, our coaches participate in coaching seminars and conferences in order to improve their qualifications. This leads to the provision of professional training with already recognised and tested methods.
We offer opportunities to develop and strengthen qualities such as general physical fitness, coordination, concentration, mental resilience and personality formation.
Serafim Grozev
Champion of Bulgaria for men in singles (2021).
Champion of Bulgaria in pairs up to 14, 16, 18 years and men.
Vice-champion of Bulgaria under 16 and 18 in singles.
Club champion of Bulgaria under 14, 16 and 18 years.
Multiple participant in European championships (team and individual) up to 14, 16 and 18 years old.
Licensed and registered coach in the Coaching Staff Register at the MMC. With over 10 years of experience in this field.
Part of the coaching council of the Bulgarian Tennis Federation and head coach of the national junior team up to 18 years old.
International license from GPTCA - a coaching association certified by the ATP.
Assistant coach and sparring partner of the women's national team (Billie Jean King Cup) in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Sparring partner of Tsvetana Pironkova (former number 32 in the international ranking for women - WTA) in the period 2008-2014.
Grozev worked with Kaloyan Dimitrov - multiple champion of Bulgaria under 12, 14 and 16 years old and with Daria Radulova – multiple champion of Bulgaria under 14, 16, 18 and women, semi-finalist of the Orange Bowl (unofficial world championship) under 14.
In the last 4 years, he has been the personal trainer of Adriano Dzhenev, Elizara Yaneva and Petya Arshinkova.
Adriano Dzhenev is the champion of Bulgaria under 12, 14 and 16; fifth place at the Under-14 World Team Championship, where he represented the team as the first racket; reached number 7 in the under-14 international rankings; reached number 15 in the under-18 world rankings; an integral part of the national teams of the respective age group; part of the extended squad of the men's national team (Daviscup).
Elizara Yaneva is the champion of Bulgaria under 16 in outdoor and indoor; runner-up for women in 2022 at the age of 15; part of the national side dishes in the relevant age group; reached number 79 in the world ranking for under 18s.
Petya Arshinkova is a multiple champion for women of Bulgaria; part of the national women's team (Billie Jean King Cup) in 2018, 2019 and 2020; third place at the European Under-18 Individual Singles Championship
Plamen Avuski
Licensed and registered coach in the MMS Coaching Staff Register. Assistant coach of the national tennis team for girls and boys up to 12 years old.
He was in the top 5 in the rankings of Bulgaria under 12, 14, 16 and 18 years old.
Two-time champion of Bulgaria in doubles and two-time semi-finalist in singles for juniors.
He won the world famous international tournaments for children in Spain – Nike Junior Tour and Jordy Tour Circuito de Tenis.
He was ranked 63rd in the international ranking under 14.
Avuski continues his development in the USA. There, he became the all-time Saint Francis University record holder for 4-season wins. He is a two-time finalist and two-time semi-finalist in the Northeast Conference of the US College Championship, which brings together all the best university players.
His coaching experience includes stints at Silver Spring County Club (2017); TC Karatancheva (2022) and TC Dema (2022).
Avuski worked in California with Mikael Fernandez – currently with ATP ranking points; with Denislava Glushkova - multiple champion of Bulgaria under 12, 14, 16, 18 years and women, reached number 38 in the world ranking under 18 years and up to 485 for women (WTA).
He is fluent in English, Spanish and Russian.
Gabriel Zissis
Graduated from the National Sports Academy with a major in "Tennis" in 2024.
Coach at New Rochelle Tennis Club New York State, USA 2021.
Coach "Greenwich Racquet Club" State of Connecticut, USA 2021.
Was in the "Top 3" under 18 years in Bulgaria.
2019 Under 18 State Doubles Champion
2019 Under 18 State Singles Champion
2021 New York Men's Club Champion
Sparring partner of Margaryta Bilokin DUKE University, 2021 ITA All-America (Doubles) Champion, 21 ITF Girls, 2017 Orange Bowl Finalist and 2018 Van der Valk hotel Gladbeck junior Cup Champion.
Georgi Dimenchev
Licensed trainer of the Bulgarian tennis federation category "C".
Registered in the register of coaching personnel of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
Graduated from VIF "Georgi Dimitrov" in 1983 with majors in athletics and tennis.
From 1983 to 1985, he was part of the Center for Scientific and Applied Research in Sports.
From 1985 to 1986, he was the head teacher of the "Vasil Levski" Sports School, Plovdiv.
From 1986 until now, he has been a sports teacher at the Medical University of Plovdiv.
He has many years of experience in the organisation and management of professional sports.
