Iconic tennis coach, academy founder dead at 91

Nick Bollettieri founded the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy — now IMG Academy — in 1978.

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Legendary tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, the founder of what's today IMG Academy, one of the most prominent youth sports training facilities in the world and a major economic driver of west Bradenton for decades, has died. He was 91.

IMG announced Bollettieri's death in a statement released the morning of Dec. 5.

 

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