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Tessa Shapovalova

Tessa Shapovalova is an Israeli tennis coach and former professional player, and the mother and longtime coach of tennis player Denis Shapovalov.

born 1969Coaching her son Denis ShapovalovFounding the Tessa Tennis academyPlaying for the Soviet national team

Born: 14 March 1969, Lviv
Occupation: tennis player

Tessa Shapovalova was born in 1969 in Lviv

Tessa Shapovalova was born on 14 March 1969 in Lviv, Ukraine, which was then part of the Soviet Union. She is Jewish. She played on the Soviet national tennis team.

As the Soviet Union was collapsing, she moved to Tel Aviv with Viktor Shapovalov, and she became a tennis coach there. Their two sons, Evgeniy and Denis, were born in Israel. The family moved to Canada before Denis turned one.

In Canada she coached at the Richmond Hill Country Club, where Denis began to play. When he could not get enough court time, she left the club and opened the Tessa Tennis academy in Vaughan. She traveled with Denis as his coach for several years, also after Mikhail Youzhny was hired to coach him.

In 2021 she stopped traveling as his full-time coach. In 2025 she handed ownership of the academy to coach Vitaly Gorin, and it was renamed Concord Tennis Academy. She still coaches students there.