Promising tennis player Trey Mallory broadened his horizons this month during an intense training camp in Florida where he worked under world-renowned coach Gabe Jaramillo.

The son of Bermuda tennis coach Ricky Mallory was put through his paces by Jaramillo at the Club Med Academies in Port St Lucie.

Jaramillo has trained eight No 1 players and 26 top-ten players in the world. Among the many notable players the Colombian coach has worked with are the likes of multiple Grand-Slam winners Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Monica Seles and Jim Courier.

Also during his whirlwind visit Mallory, who will represent Bermuda at next month’s ITF World Junior Team Championships in the Dominican Republic, attended the Florida International Tennis Training Elite (Fittelite) Academy in Boca Raton, where he was coached by the trio of Jhonny Berrido, Maurice Trail and Timothy Neilly.

Berrido is a former professional who helps coach Dominican Republic professional Victor Estrella while Trail has worked with numerous top juniors, including Noah Rubin who won last year’s Junior Boy’s Wimbledon title. Neilly was the first African-American to win the Orange Bowl at the age of 17.

“Trey really enjoyed his time at the academies, especially Fittelite,” sRicky Mallory, who accompanied his son in Florida, said.

“His days would start at 6.30am with breakfast and then to the courts for 8am physical training for an hour.

“From 9am to 11am was intense drilling, 11am to 11.30am stretching and then lunch from 11.30am to 2pm. From 2pm to 5pm was tactics and match play and usually weekends the juniors would play tournaments.

“On the last day we got to visit Saviano Tennis Academy where some of the juniors from Fittelite were participating in a Futures tournament.

“Trey got to watch some of the top up and coming players from around the world participate in the tournament dreaming that some day he will play at that level, if not higher.”

One of the highlights of Mallory’s trip to Florida was observing American women’s player Sloane Stephens training on court.

Stephens is ranked 33rd in the world by the Women’s Tennis Association. She has reached four semi-finals, including the 2013 Australian Open, where she defeated multiple Grand-Slam winner Serena Williams.

“Watching Sloane Stephens train on one of the outer courts was the icing on the cake,” Mallory said.