By Brian Coleman
Coaching Spotlight
Rohan Goetzke with Richard Krajicek and his son, Alec, and Nick Bollettieri
Rohan Goetzke CourtSense
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t the beginning of 2020, Rohan Goetzke began the newest chapter of his tennis career when he accepted a position as Director of Tennis at Bogota Racquet Club and joined the CourtSense team. It was the latest, and possibly final, stop on a remarkable tennis journey that began on the other side of the world, and has led him here to the Tri-State area. “I remember flying up to New Jersey to meet with Gordon [Uehling], Ogi [Nikolovski] and the rest of the team there, and I liked what they were doing,” recalls Goetzke. “I trusted them and what they were doing. I had some other offers elsewhere, but I knew this was the place for me. After meeting everyone and seeing what they were about, my gut told me this was where I should be.” Goetzke took the position at CourtSense after spending eight years as the Director of Tennis at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. It was while there that he first heard about Uehling and the CourtSense program up in New Jersey CourtSense. There was a player in the IMG Academy program from New York, and his father mentioned what Uehling had established with CourtSense. When Goetzke was finished at IMG Academy, he connected with Uehling and Nikolovski. “He knew Gordon, and said he is a great guy who wants to always improve his program, and there could be something there,” Goetzke recalls. “At the time, I was taking some time off to figure out what I wanted my next step to be. So I began having some conversations with Gordon, Ogi and the team, and I loved what they were doing. It had to work for everybody, and this was the best move for my family and I.” At the time, Goetzke had offers to go back onto the professional tours as a travelling coach, something he had done for decades prior. But at this point in his life, spending nearly all of his time throughout the year on the road was not something that he wanted to do; as a husband and father of three kids, Goetzke was looking for something stable and that didn’t require him to travel the globe for much of the year.
