Coaches:

Marc Assaraf – Director of Tennis

With over 40 years of international coaching experience, Marc Assaraf is renowned for motivating players to achieve their highest potential. A graduate of traditional and sport sciences, he emphasizes discipline, superior fitness, and teamwork. Marc has coached top 100 ATP, WTA, and ITF players, served as National Coach for Tennis Canada, and received multiple Coaching Excellence Awards. He developed elite Canadian juniors like Carol Zhao, Brandon Schnur, and Peter Polansky and has guided numerous players to tennis scholarships at prestigious universities, including UCLA, Stanford, and Boston College. Marc is also the President of USPTA San Diego (2021–2023).

Polina Goloputova – ROG Program Head Coach

Polina is a former D1 player at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and was a scholar athlete who made the Dean’s List & the A.D. Honor Roll in her senior year.  As a junior, she achieved a No. 6 ranking in Kazakhstan in the U18 division and competed as an ITF/WTA player from Astana, Kazakhstan. 

Coach Polina has worked with junior players from the ROG level to advanced and pro players.  She’s also experienced in conducting adult clinics and lessons.  Polina attained a B.S. degree in Exercise Science and will be leading Player’s edge strength and conditioning training.  Polina is  fluent in English and Russian.

Andrey Volotskov– Tennis Coach

Andrey was nationally ranked as a junior and competed in ITF circuit. He’s USPTA & PPR certified with over 14 years of teaching experience. He specializes in youth tennis with a focus on fundamental part of the sport, developing fine motor skills which are the basics of all athletic endeavors. He has been working as a junior tennis coach for last 7 years in San Diego ( Players edge tennis school, Bay club, Fairbanks Ranch country club, Bobby Riggs tennis club) also worked in Italy, Croatia and Russia. Andrey believes in his proven ability to motivate players to reach their potential.

Daniel Green –Tennis Coach

Born on a kibbutz in ISRAEL. Fluent in both English and Hebrew.

I got my coaching certificate at the WINGATE institute IN Tel Aviv .

15 years of experience on all levels.

I feel very fortunate to do what I love at PLAYERS EDGE.