About the club
S Tennis Academy is based at the Soma Sports Arena in Somabay, a resort development on Egypt’s Red Sea coast south of Hurghada. Founded by former professional Gilbert Schaller, Olympian Mohamed Safwat and sports psychologist Hend Eissa, it is described as the first academy in Egypt and the Middle East to offer hard, clay and grass courts on one site, with four grass, twelve hard and three clay courts, according to the resort’s July 2025 announcement. The academy hosts the Soma Bay Open, an ATP Challenger on hard courts first held in 2025, and ITF World Tennis Tour events. From 8 to 14 June 2026 it staged the W50 Hurghada, recorded by the ITF on outdoor grass and billed as the first ITF W50 grass tournament in Egypt and Africa, a pre-Wimbledon week with about 72 players. The academy runs summer camps for juniors.
