BEYOND THE BASELINE
BEYOND THE BASELINE BEYOND THE BASELINE
BEYOND THE BASELINE BEYOND
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Parsa Samii By Brian Coleman
ennis and the real estate business; on the surface, these two things don’t have anything in common. But if you look closely, the ways to be successful in both of these fields often overlap. It takes dedication, discipline and confidence, and at their cores, they both require focusing on the process rather than results. A great example of these parallels is Parsa Samii. A native of Long Island, Samii was a top junior player growing up, playing at local clubs such as Glen Head Racquet Club, Port Washington
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Tennis Academy and Robbie Wagner Tournament Training Center before going on to have a successful college career at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Samii would go on to compete on the pro tour in the years following college, but he began to get bit by the injury bug, which halted the professional tennis dream. “I started to get injured quite a bit, but I was very determined to make the impossible, so to speak, happen,” he said. “I pushed myself to the limit, but my body started to fail, and continued to fail.
Long Island Tennis Magazine • July/August 2022 • LITennisMag.com
After a couple of shoulder injuries and a surgery, I stopped playing pro tennis when I was about 25-years-old.” That’s when Samii made the transition into coaching here on Long Island, something he would do for nearly two decades, coaching some of the top junior players including multiple national and international titlists. But in what was becoming all-too commonplace for Samii, he was injured again, this time hurting his elbow, leading him to make a difficult decision. “This theme kept happening, and I felt like I needed to make a transition in my life.
