Dimas Mendez

Tennis Coach

Dimas was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and came to the United States in 2009. As a junior, he was ranked #10 in the 16s division in Puerto Rico, and later went on to attend the University of Puerto Rico, graduating with a B.S. in Biology in 2005. Dimas began coaching tennis during his college years, including the opportunity to train the inaugural Puerto Rican Junior Tennis Team at the 2009 ISF Championships in Belgium. He also has over ten years of experience as a Pro-Tour stringer, stringing and customizing racquets for world-ranked tennis players, including Dominic Thiem, Maria Sakkari and Marin Cilic, among others, and is a member of the US Open, Indian Wells and Cincinnati Open stringing teams. Dimas has experience coaching players of all ages and levels, and joined the SPORTIME/JMTA team in 2022, as a tennis coach and racquet stringer.