7/25/2023 0 Comments Gigi fernandez and jane geddes![]() “The Gigi method gives players a clear understanding of how to play high percentage winning doubles.” I started writing about what I knew about doubles and came up with a plan. “I believed that if a guy with college level tennis experience can have a successful online business teaching tennis, then a hall of famer could do the same. “I was on court 15-20 hours per weeks, and how the pros were teaching doubles was by not to my liking,” Fernandez said in an interview near her home outside of Tampa, Florida. ![]() Then the director of tennis at Chelsea Piers in Stamford, Connecticut, in 2018, Fernandez began her second season as the head coach of the New York Empire - the city’s World Team Tennis franchise - and decided to go further, starting the Gigi Method (TGM), an online and in-person doubles instructional program and portal for beginners and advanced players alike. Her post-professional career as a coach took off almost simultaneously. She is the first woman to hold the office. Congress, known as Resident Commissioner. Yes, we hold US Passports but, beyond that, our privileges in Puerto Rico are much different than the vast majority of those that hold the same passport.”įernandez (left) with Jenniffer González-Colón, Puerto Rico’s sole Representative to the U.S. “All my life, I have felt that Puerto Ricans are second class citizens. “More than any other time in my life, the events in Puerto Rico have definitely given me pause and caused me to ponder what I want to do with my future,” Fernandez wrote in 2017. territory in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which devastated her home country September 2017, the government wanted the her as the name and face behind the effort for Puerto Rico. Having raised and donated thousands of dollars and supplies to the U.S. The 17-time Grand Slam winner in doubles and Olympic Gold Medalist had been called by the governor of her country, Puerto Rico, to serve as a shadow representative of Puerto Rico at the U.S. There is a point in which Gigi Fernandez almost switched careers. The 17-time Grand Slam Doubles champion launched the Gigi Method in 2018. ![]() Gigi Fernandez playing an exhibition match at the U.S.
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