Nicholas James Bollettieri was a tennis coach from the United States. Nick Bollettieri was born in Pelham, New York, to immigrant Italian parents.

He attended Pelham Memorial High School. He earned a philosophy degree from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, in 1953.

After dropping out of the University of Miami Law School in 1956, he began teaching tennis.

He pioneered the concept of a tennis boarding school. Brian Gottfried was one of Bollettieri’s first students. Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, hosted his first formal tennis camp.

He aided in the development of many top tennis players over the years, including Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles, and Mary Pierce.

He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2014. Bollettieri was the first white man to be inducted into the Black Tennis Hall of Fame the following year.

Nick Bollettieri died on November 20, 2022. The Italian-American coach was 91 years old when he died.