My friend Ivan Ronaldson, who died of a heart attack at the age of 51, was inspiring Real tennis professional. He instructed dozens of future stars in clubs, including Hampton -Kort, Fontainebleau, France and the criminal hall in Essex. Before his coaching career, Ivan was a brilliant youthful player who won a number of names of national age groups.
This tennis is the predecessor of lawn tennis; This was played in medieval times and enjoyed Henry VIII. The game today has changed little when players beat with hard, hand -sewn balls with asymmetric wooden rackets above the lowered mesh and outside the walls of the court.
Ivan was born in Melbourne, Australia. They returned to the UK in 1979, and after the period living in the throne, Scotland, became professionals in the kingdom Tennis Court, Hampton Court.
After the Papplewick school in Askot, Berkshire, Ivan got into the Kanford school in Dorset, where his Uncle Steve was the head of the Real Tennis Professional school. He helped his nephew to develop a powerful strategic game, which became a distinctive feature of young people: Ivan won British three times up to 12 years old, twice until 14 years old and twice until 14 years old.
As a teenager, Ivan also helped his parents manage the club, sweep the court, quit lessons and social games, and absorb their philosophy, that it was a calling, and not just work. Due to the fact that the court usually booked at 16 hours a day, Ivan got used to communicating with people from all sectors of society: employees of the security service on the spot, industry captains, the widow of generals in the apartments thanks to both the bond and the young prince Edward, who regularly played in Humpton and met his future wife, Sophia RiSjons, at a real tennis event in 1993 in 1993 year.
After school, Ivan spent a year since 1992, studying the economy and accounting at the University of Reading before choosing a real tennis career. He spent two years as a professional player player in the Holyport Club club in Berkshire (1993-95), before becoming a professional in Fontainebleau (1995-98) and Hampton Cort (1998-2002).
For four years, creating the new Pressed Hall Club (2002-05), he covered the talents of several gifted young people, including the World Future Women Claire Fahi world champion. He enjoyed similar success in the USA in Princess Cort (2005-22), and then in Westwood Country Club, both in Virginia. In 2019, he trained the junior side of the United States with their first victory of the Van Alain Cup over his British colleagues for 25 years.
A higher character with a sharp razor brain and the gift of friendship, Ivan invariably extracted the maximum fun from any situation. He enjoyed chess matches and played the devil’s lawyer in political debates with friends and family.
In 2005, he married Elf Vudoll, a government servant of the United States. She survived him, like their two children, Liliana and Bruce, his parents and two brothers, Ben and Luke.
