Cannon Campbell - Tennis Director/Owner

Cannon Campbell is a USPTA P1 certified professional, an owner of Windward Lake Club and Director of Windward Tennis Academy. With more than twenty-six years of tennis experience as both a player and a coach, Cannon has excelled as a nationally ranked junior and a nationally recognized junior tennis instructor. Working with more than 150 state,southern,nationally, and internationally ranked players Cannon specializes in the development of elite junior players.
As a junior player, Cannon was a four time member of the Georgia Junior Davis Cup and a twenty-eight time Georgia Junior state champion in singles and doubles. He consistently ranked in the top five in the south in singles and doubles and was the #1 singles player for the 1990 State Champion Walton High school tennis team in Atlanta, Georgia. Cannon trained under Rick Macci at the renowned Rick Macci International Tennis Academy for one year where he learned many drills that he has personalized and implemented into his own tennis program today.

In college, Cannon played at the University of Mississippi and Valdosta State University. He played #1 singles and doubles at VSU and received the honor of freshman of the year for the Gulf Coast Conference. His sophomore year he also received all conference honors. During his junior and senior years he established his own junior tennis program and served as Tennis Director for the city of Valdosta. Cannon graduated from VSU with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Public Relations. Cannon is a USTA High Performance certified coach as well as the Southern team coach for 2006 Nike Junior Team National Championships. Some of his current players include: Bradley Cox(145 in the world ITF) University of Kentucky Tennis Team, Henry Darko(250 in the world ATP), Kate Fuller(2007 #5 Girls 16 USTA National Ranking and ITF world ranked junior), Rachael Hart (top 30 Girls 16 USTA National ranking), Allie Robbins and Aryn Greene.

Cannon is a National advisory staff Wilson and Fila sponsored coach. He has also developed a very successful doubles coaching philosophy that he has instituted at Windward Tennis Academy called the “Windward Way." In July 2007 Cannon coached the Boys and Girls 16 Southern Intersectional Team to a National Championship win over Southern California in Shreveport La. In September 2007 Cannon coached the Georgia Junior Davis Cup team to victory for the Boys and Girls 14-18's. He has also has been chosen to coach the Georgia Junior Davis Cup team for 2008.

Lastly, Cannon has been married to his wife Kristin for 13 years and is the proud father of two girls Lawton 7and Ella 4.

 

Great tennis players are always prepared for anything. ARE YOU?

Essential items for your tennis bag - The following items should be in each
player's tennis bag during drills and at tournaments: inhaler (if on medication), at least two racquets, towel, water jug, jump rope, hat/visor, practice balls, wristbands, bandaids, advil etc., extra grips, sunscreen, extra socks, extra T-shirt, chapstick, flexall/icy hot, energy bar, Gatorade packets, spare contact lenses and saline solution, hair barretts/hair ties, and sweatshirt. Winter months add stocking hat, hand warmers, gloves and earmuffs.