About Thomas Drouet

Thomas Drouet is a distinguished French tennis coach, having served as a professional on-tour coach for top players like Bernard Tomic, Timea Babos, Qiang Wang, Marion Bartoli, and others. Since commencing his coaching career in 2011, Drouet has shared his extensive on-tour knowledge, discipline, and techniques with emerging young players in the WTA. In 2023, Drouet took Petra Marcinko under his wing, a talented 18-year-old who clinched the Australia Open for juniors. Beyond his unparalleled discipline both on and off the court, Drouet is passionate about infusing interactive techniques into coaching. In 2022, he introduced the first-ever Interactive Tennis Card Game, designed to help kids, adults, professionals, and amateurs achieve better goals, enhance techniques, understand on-court mechanisms, and develop the mental toughness required to succeed in tennis.

All of this is accomplished while ensuring a fun and enjoyable experience for players and enthusiasts alike.

Why the card game challenge?

The first international card game created by a tennis professional.

I have spent over a decade coaching on the ATP/WTA pro circuit, giving me the opportunity to interact with the biggest names in tennis. Their dedication and constant pursuit of improvement have been a great inspiration to me. From my early days in a club to my current position on the pro circuit, I have always enjoyed the challenge of helping my athletes progress and achieve their goals. This passion led me to constantly seek new training techniques and exercises tailored to their needs.

In 2019, while in Hungary preparing training sessions, I pondered on how to combine various training techniques into a single exercise that could replicate the stress, physical effort, and intense concentration required in a tennis match, while still being enjoyable for players of all levels and ages. I realized that it's not always easy to maintain an athlete's concentration and motivation, especially if they have been doing the same exercises since childhood. This is how the concept of the Tennis Cards Challenge was born.