The Washington Kastles, a professional tennis team based in Washington, D.C., are the newest franchise of the World TeamTennis Pro League and the 2009 WTT Champions. The Kastles entered the World TeamTennis League in 2008 and are owned by Mark Ein. The team is named for Kastle Systems, a security company. The Kastles captured the 2009 King Trophy by defeating Springfield in the WTT Championship on Sunday, July 26, 2009 in Washington, DC.

The best things in life for me have been the moments where it seemed as though time stood still and for a second...it became magic. It happened once before for me in 1993 when my brother Luke and I won the French Open Doubles Championship. The experience I had Coaching the 2009 Washington Kastles will be something I will never forget. At the beginning of the season we started off as a group of almost strangers and individuals. By the end of the season we had found ourselves pulling together like a family lifting each other up for one goal and one dream.

It all started for me in 2008 when I met Mark Ein, Team Owner of the Washington Kastles in Washington D.C. during a Tennis Channel Shoot and an interview with Anna Kournikova. A year later I was Coaching the best WTT Team in the World! I remember telling Mark, all I wanted was to have an experience that I would never forget. I got that and much more. I learned that its better to win with a city behind you than on your own, with players that care more about the Team and the City than themselves. Tennis is a selfish sport and to succeed you need to take care of yourself and its up to you how successful you become. In WTT you have to be unselfish to succeed. I found myself with an organization that wants to win, but it also wants to provide the team and the fans with the greatest atmosphere in Tennis that is "made to order" a Championship Team.

My first year with the Washington Kastles was a dream come true. I was part of something that I will remember for the rest of my life. Its not an easy task to win in World Team Tennis. I played 11 seasons and never hoisted the coveted Billy Jean King Trophy! Never! Yet in my first season with the Washington Kastles we won it all. And for a moment it seemed like time stood still with Olga PUCHI Puchkova, coming back to win in the final set after being down match points while our fans and home crowd and team went bananas. It was NUTS! Like I said, it was unforgettable. I’m the lucky one on the Team because I get the privilege to Coach some of the BEST tennis players in the history of the game including Serena and Venus Williams, Leander Paes, Rennae Stubbs and Vika Azarenka, Nadia Petrova and Bobby the "hit man" Reynolds which gives my team a tally of 69 Grand Slam Titles...WOAH!!! It’s not an easy job but somebody has to do it. I have a philosophy...and I didn’t get it from John Wooden..."if we Win its because of the Coach and if we lose it’s because of the players." Just kidding! Seriously, the truth is that it’s my goal as a Coach to get the Team to love each other and to care about the city of D.C. and it’s fans. If I accomplish that then the winning takes care of itself. I believe that if your not going to try and be the best what’s the point. In Washington DC we strive to be the best. And win or lose I have found that the Kastles are the best. Here in DC we have the BEST STADIUM, the BEST PLAYERS, OWNER, and TEAM, the BEST ORGANIZATION and FRONT OFFICE, the BEST FANS, and of course...
THE BEST CITY in World Team Tennis!