Jak Beardsworth
UMass-Dartmouth Team
Clinic with Chris Evert,
Jimmy Connors Tennis Center
Sannibel, FL '86
Clinic host with Billie Jean King
ITA College Coaches Convention
Sanibel Harbor, FL '87
Clinic with Dr. Jim Loehr 1988,
Mental Toughness
Training Founder
Sanibel Harbor, FL '88
Jr. Clinic with Arthur Ashe
Miami, FL, '91
Clinic with Tom Gorman
Davis Cup Captain
Miami, FL '91
Jak graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth with a B.A. in History and a minor in Psychology. He played #1 on a team that was ranked in the top ten nationally of the small college rankings. Individually, he was a three-time New England small college champion. He eventually returned to the University as Head Coach and was ultimately inducted into the UMASS-Dartmouth Hall of Fame.
His 15 minutes of Tour-fame occurred when he was invited as a teenager to play in the Newport Casino Invitational, a leg on the prestigious summer grass court series leading up to the "U.S.Nationals" (precurser to the U.S.Open) at Forest Hills - the Westside Tennis Club.
Paying his dues in the club trenches led to Celebrity Clinics and Exhibitions with Grand Slam champions such as Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors, Virginia Wade, and Maria Bueno, as well as Davis Cup Captains Tom Gullikson and Tom Gorman, and other notable professionals. He was also fortunate to have worked in association with Dr. Jim Loehr, now considered the Father of Mental Toughness Training for sports, at the Jimmy Connors Tennis Center at Sanibel Harbor, Florida in the 1980's.
Speaking Engagements, including clinics, seminars, and workshops, have included USPTA conventions in New England and San Diego, the ITA college coaches convention, internationally at the Austrian Coaches Conference in Innsbruck and in London at the Nirvana Club & Spa.
Jak was the headliner at the opening of the new Napa Valley College Tennis Center, leading a weekend of clinics and activities. He has also hosted a tennis event in conjunction with the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame induction weekend in New York (his Grandfather, Fred Beardsworth, is enshrined in the Hall). At his home winter club, Vivante on Charlotte Harbor, he presented a doubles clinic and exhibition featuring former Davis Cup Captain Tom Gullikson as part of the facilitiy's grand opening celebration. Jak has also been invited to conduct both on and off court seminars at the 2009 NoCal USPTA Convention held at Stanford University, as well as most recently (2011) at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, RI for the USPTA-New England pro convention.
In his career, Jak has both developed and coached hundreds of USTA sectionally/nationally ranked junior and adult players, NTRP club teams, along with successful Division I,II,III college players and aspiring tour players.
He has also had the pleasure of being associated with Coach Peter Eipeldauer and former #1 Austrian Barbara Paulus in her incredible comeback to the WTA top ten after double carpel tunnel surgery in the mid-90's.
Today, Jak Beardsworth continues to make his signature expertise available to players at all levels of play in Punta Gorda, FL during the winter, Lake Placid, NY during the summer.
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