Meet Our Team
Krishneel Kumar
Experience:
18 years of training and playing competitive tennis including local and international tournaments. Represented Fiji in Oceania and Regional Championships. Coached players from beginner to the Junior World ranking level competitions. Officiated in International Events and tournament coordinator.
National and International Tour Coaching Experience:
2013-2019
Tours
Fiji Junior Team Tour Coach to:
- Regional Junior Tennis Championships- Vanuatu- 2013,2014,2016 and 2018
- West pacific Qualifying Junior Tennis Championships- Fiji and Vanuatu- 2014, 2015, 2016,2017, 2018 and 2019
- Commonwealth Youth Games- Samoa- 2015
- Albury Tour- Margaret Court Cup- Australia- 2015, 2016 and 2018
- Brisbane Junior Tour- Oceania Junior Team- 2018
- New Caledonia Tour- U12 Championships- 2018
- Japan and Fiji Exchange Program Junior Tour- 2018, 2019
Certification and Coach Education Experience
- International Tennis Federation Level 1 Certified Coach
- Olympic Solidarity Certificate
- ITF Play and stay Certificate
- Tennis Australia- Educating the Educator Course Assistant and Participant
- ITF Regional Coaches Conference Participant- Hong Kong
- Child Protection Workshop participant
- OSEP Development Coach and Strength and Conditioning Course participant
Other Experience
Officiating at International Events
Chair Umpire- ITF Junior world ranking
- semi-finals and Finals
Chair Umpire- Pacific Mini- Games 2017
- Team Event Medal play-offs
- Singles- Bronze Medal play-offs
- Ladies- Gold and Silver medal play-offs
Tactical and Technical Speciality – Here to Improve Your Tactical Game and Solution to Your One-Handed Backhand and Volleys
Game Style: All Rounder
Technical Speciality: Single Hand Backhand and Volleys- forehand/backhand
Game Situation- Strength: Return of serves and serve and volley
Krishan Raju
Experience:
12 years of training and playing competitive tennis tournaments including local and international tournaments. My highlights are playing the Commonwealth Youth Games for Fiji in Samoa in the year 2015, and representing Fiji in various tournaments in Australia as an under 18 and reaching a rank of top 200.
Player Experience:
Junior Tennis Championships Titles won locally and in the regional and Oceania tennis
Championships.
National Rep for Fiji at Nations Cup in Suva, Fiji
Played various tournaments in NSW and Victoria.
Semi-Finalist of Under 18 grade at Paramatta Junior Championship Gold Grade
Captain and rep for Fiji for TVL Regional
Championships in Vanuatu
Rep for Fiji for the inaugural tour to Australia for Team Fiji
Coaching Experience
2019 – 2020
Assistant Coach at Futures Tennis Academy located at East Malvern Tennis Club, Melbourne
2021 – current
Coach at Viti Tennis Academy located at Nadi Sports Club, Fiji
My Game – Here to improve Your Tactical Game and Solution to Your Forehand from the
baseline and variation on Your serves
Game Style: Aggressive Baseliner
Technical Speciality: Serves and Forehand Groundstrokes
Game situation: All kinds of Serves, forehand Groundstrokes, drop shot
Vienna Kumar
Experience:
12 years of training and playing competitive tennis including local and international tournaments. Represented Fiji in the 2017 Pacific Mini Games, 2017 Indoor Asian Games, 2017 Junior Commonwealth Games and 2019 Pacific Games. Coached players from beginner to Junior competitive levels.
Coaching and Tour Coaching Experience
2018-2021
Tours
Pacific Oceania Team Tour Assistant Coach to New Caledonia in 2019
Certification and Coach Education Experience
- International Tennis Federation Level 1 Certified Coach
- ITF Play and stay Certificate
- OSEP Development Coach and Strength and Conditioning Coach
Other Experience
Officiating at International Events
- OSEP Gender Based Violence Course participant
- Medical First Aid Responder
Tactical and Technical- Here to help you Improve your tactical Game and Solution to Your
Groundstrokes from the Baseline
Game Style: Aggressive Baseliner
Technical Speciality: Backhand Ground strokes, Flat serves
Game Situation- Strength: Aggressive at the baseline.