Alex Sandri completed his second season as the top assistant men’s and women’s tennis coach, working under head coach Derek DiFazio as the program returned to Manhattanville in 2018-19.
Sandri came to Manhattanville after spending a year as the full-time tennis pro at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Prior to that, he had worked as the high performance coach at Spring Tennis Academy in Spring, Texas.
Sandri spent the last four summers as the assistant coach at Millbrook (N.Y.) Golf and Tennis Club, operating summer camps, clinics, USTA league matches, and private/group lessons.
Born and raised in Curitiba, Brazil, Sandri earned a bachelor’s degree in physical health and wellness from Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kan., in 2013. He received his masters degree in recreation administration from Illinois State University in 2016 while working as the graduate assistant for the school’s Division I tennis program. He graduated with another masters from Manhattanville in 2019.
