Dan Lempa
Dan Lempa

Bio

Dan Lempa
Head Coach
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Hi, my name is Dan Lempa and I am excited to be the new COD Head tennis coach! I grew up in Chicago, IL of parents and 3 sisters who were all high level tennis players. I have a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, MT (masters of teaching) in Math Education from the University of Virginia. I have extensive experience in the last 20 years of playing/ coaching top junior and professional tennis. Here are some of the major points.

• 2002 Ranked #2 Midwest Section (IL, MI, OH, ..) Men’s Open singles
• 2003 Ranked #41 Nation Men’s Open Singles
• Finished College tennis at University of Virginia as the top player in the beginning of the one of the best college programs in the country
• 2005 Ranked #1 Nation in both Singles and Doubles Men’s Open
• Ranked in the top 100 of all players pro’s and college players for over a 10 year period
• Became hitting partner for 4 different top 100 World ranked players in that span, each lasting over a year (Laura Granville, Julie Ditty, Brian Baker, Huntley Montgomery)
• Won 5 National medals including 2007 won silver medal for singles and doubles at Grass Court Nationals
• 2015 Hitting partner for Taylor Fritz for his Easter Bowl Championship win
• 2016 World Team Tennis National Champion
• 2005-2017 Qualified for 5 different $50K-$100K challengers
• 2015- 2023 trained and tutored (ACT/ SAT Prep) many students to help them earn scholarships for tennis to play for MI, Arizona, Stanford, etc..
• 2018 hitting partner for Daria Kasatkina as she made the finals of Masters series Indian Wells and beat 3 former #1 players
• 2018-2023 Filmed for Head Tennis as the body double for Novak Djokovic and hitting partner for Zverev, Cilic, Sinner, Rublev, Krejcikova, Coco Gauff and more.
• Filmed an 8 hour instructional Video with tennis legend Martina Navratilova as her hitting partner
• Before retiring beat a 14 UTR 6-2, 6-3

~ Bio current as of July 2023