Elevate your game.

Whether you’re aiming for an intense workout, a focus on technique, or a mix of both, APEX Performance Center offers programs tailored to fit your individual goals.

With 100+ athletes trained, including from beginners to advanced, our philosophy focuses on building life skills through tennis, cross-training, fostering community connections, and ensuring everyone’s journey is as rewarding as it is fun.

APEX provides programs for kids, adults, groups, and any athlete looking to improve their tennis game or elevate their fitness to the next level. Our small group sizes ensure personalized attention, maximizing your development.

From private lessons to group classes, join us and experience the thrill of the game surrounded by a vibrant community.

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Fitness-forward; giving back.

As a small, women-owned business founded in Charlottesville, Virginia, APEX is guided by its core values of accessibility, real-world connection, community-building, and training athletes to become leaders.

APEX has partnered with the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) to pilot Girls Rule the Court™ (GRTC)  in Charlottesville, offered scholarships to underserved communities, and will continue to offer quarterly scholarship opportunities (financial assistance provided by PATA and UNLAD) and other support to get more young people in the game, including through a partnership with Soles Served, which provides shoes to players free of charge.

At APEX, our goal is to expand access to tennis, training, and the community it fosters.

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Our Team

  • Alexandra de Guzman standing on a tennis court holding a tennis racket

    Alexandra de Guzman

    FOUNDER AND HEAD COACH

    Alexandra de Guzman, a Charlottesville-based coach, boasts over two decades of competitive tennis experience. Originally from New Jersey, she excelled as a junior player, ranking top five in sectional singles and securing a national USTA doubles title. Transitioning to collegiate play, she competed in NCAA Division I tennis at The College of William and Mary where her team ranked as high as #8 in the nation. She graduated with a B.S. in Kinesiology and minor in Art and Art History. Following graduation, she served as the Women's Assistant Tennis Coach at William and Mary before joining the esteemed Van Der Meer Tennis Academy in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Certified by the USPTA, PTR, and as a Tennis Performance Specialist, she has coached nationally-ranked juniors, and provided coaching support at the Madrid Open and French Open, working alongside a professional player on tour. She has firsthand experience in high-performance coaching environments, match preparation, and player development at the elite level and formerly worked at the prestigious Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville.

    Alex spent two transformative years abroad in Spain, teaching tennis and English while refining her teaching philosophy centered on self-awareness, immersion, perspective, and empathy. Returning to the U.S., she continued to blend her passions, managing international university programs for an educational travel company. Actively involved in her community, she is a part of the USTA Mid-Atlantic Coaches Commission Task Force.

  • Hannah Hardy celebrating after weightlifting a barbell in a sports arena.

    Dr. Hannah Hardy, DC

    COACH AND PERSONAL TRAINER

    Hannah’s passion is guiding people from injury back to the activities that they love through manual treatment, movement and rehabilitation, and education. Being a two-time CrossFit Games athlete and CrossFit coach of nine years, she understands what it takes for the elite competitor to excel at the top of their sport and the support team that one needs to stay at the top. She has had the opportunity to work with athletes at the collegiate and professional levels in multiple sports such as football, track and field, cross country, and CrossFit. She loves working with active people of all levels and disciplines, getting so many out of pain and back doing what they love quickly and better than before.

    Dr. Hannah received her Bachelor of Science in Education degree in Kinesiology from the University of Virginia in 2018. She then obtained her Doctor of Chiropractic degree from National University of Health Sciences in St. Petersburg, FL in the fall of 2022. In her first year of practice, she worked in Atlanta with athletes and fitness enthusiasts of all levels get out and stay out of pain. She is excited to bring her experience and knowledge back to Charlottesville and be able to pursue her career with the clinician who introduced her to the profession.

    You will see her around Charlottesville enjoying a cup of coffee at one of the local coffee shops, shouting “Wahoowa!” at every sporting event that she can attend at her alma mater, grabbing a Roots bowl for lunch, or at the gym preparing for yet another CrossFit Games season.