MAR MAINETTI
Founder & CEO
Mar is the founder and CEO of Mental Point, a mental coaching and psychological support service for tennis players who are taking their first steps in their professional careers. Even though her expertise is tennis, also works with other individual sports and clinical psychology.
She is a Psychologist specialized in Sports. Mar obtained a degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. She completed her training with a dual Master’s degree in Sports Psychology and Sports Coaching at the School of Psychology and Psychiatry of Barcelona, the city where she is based.
Her professional view is a holistic one: she claims that before being an athlete, one is a person, and therefore, all the aspects that influence the personal and sports life of the athlete need to be taken into consideration, always prioritizing the person’s mental health and wellbeing above all.
Her passion for this sport has accompanied her throughout her career. Mar competed in tennis from a very young age. She obtained a tennis coach degree from the Argentinian Tennis Association, and worked as a coach also as a sports psychologist of tennis players in Argentina, Spain, Italy, and Australia, cooperating with well-known tennis clubs and organizations such as the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona, Real Club de Polo, the Italian Tennis Federation and Tennis Australia at the Australian Open in 2019.