Iñigo Torre Martin joined Pratt Institute as head men’s and women’s tennis coach in September 2022 after an accomplished collegiate and junior playing career. In addition to his coaching duties, he also serves as Events and Facilities Coordinator.
In his two seasons at the helm of the Cannoneers, the women’s team has assembled a 20-4 overall record while the men compiled a 13-12 mark with both squads making back-to-back trips to the C2C Championships. He helped develop five All-C2C honorees in Pallavi Verghese, Beatrice Crespo, Mikah Liu and two-time selection Mehul Bhargava.
Torre Martin played collegiately for Division I Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) where he helped the Rams to four NCAA tournament appearances, leading the VCU to four Atlantic 10 Conference titles without dropping a set during their four title runs. A four-time All-Atlantic 10 selection landing three times on the first team and named the Most Outstanding Rookie in 2018, he rewrote the VCU record book with a program-best 81 career doubles wins and sitting second all-time with 101 singles victories.
Named team captain, he played his way into the ITA National Singles Rankings reaching as high as No. 98 and the Rams finished in the Top 30 with a No. 29 year-end ranking during his final season. He contributed key victories in upsets over ranked opponents No. 17 Arizona State as a senior and No. 19 Arizona as a graduate student. He also earned a spot twice on the Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team.
Prior to VCU, he was ranked No. 80 in his native country of Spain, rising to as high as No. 3 as a junior and winning the under-18 national championship in doubles. He reached a personal-high UTR rating of 13.35.
Outside of Pratt, Torre Martin has been the assistant tennis professional at the Norfolk Country Club for the last three years coaching players of all ages and levels and mentored by legendary coach Edgar Giffenig – a former national coach for the USA, Germany and Mexico
Torre Martin was certified in 2016 by the Spanish Tennis Federation (RFET) as a national mini tennis instructor and started coaching tennis at the age of 16 in his hometown tennis club, Club de Tenis Fadura.
