
Bill Riddle
About this speaker
- Bill is recognized as a High-Performance Tennis Specialist by the PTR, USPTA, and USTA, with over 35 years of diverse coaching and management experience, including significant coaching roles at The University of Tennessee Southern and Belmont, Fisk, and Cumberland Universities.
- He is among a very small group of less than 20 tennis coaches in the world to receive the distinction of both PTR International Master Tennis Professional and USPTA Master Tennis Professional
- He has contributed to the development of 6 All-American players and numerous nationally ranked singles and doubles players, receiving accolades such as the USPTA Southern Division College Coach of the Year and both the USPTA Southern Professional and Pride of the South awards.
- Beyond coaching, Bill has made substantial contributions to tennis media, including co-hosting “Tennis Talk” on WLAC, serving as a TV announcer for WTA Tour events, and creating content for “Around the Court Around the World” and “Serve It Up.”
- As the Director of Tennis at Bluegrass Yacht & Country Club for 21 years and Temple Hills Country Club for 7 years, he led facilities to receive numerous honors.
- Bill has been a featured speaker and presenter at numerous coaching conferences around the world to include the Australian Open, the US Open, the Wimbledon Coaches Conference as well as featured events in New Zealand, China, Sweden, Norway, Canada, France, Spain and throughout the USA and the Caribbean.