Watch your kids grow in tennis

Jen Azevedo

General Manager, Instructor

USPTA and IPTPA certified, Jen has been at the Paseo Club in both tennis and fitness for over a decade.  A graduate and 4-year player at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Jen has translated her love of all things tennis and fitness into a long list of on and off court fun.  She is an Ironman and ultra marathoner who will be running her first Boston Marathon in 2020. 

Jen has been a part of the coaching staff at Valencia High School for over ten years, helping to lead the teams to numerous league championships and one CIF Championship in 2014.  She enjoys teaching at all levels and ages, but her three year old daughter is her favorite student athlete.

Jackson Boxall

Tennis Instructor

Jackson Boxall, a Santa Clarita native, grew up training at The Paseo Club. Jackson played for the Valencia Vikings in high school and was a very successful player for the program. Jackson helped lead the team to a CIF Playoff Quarterfinal birth. Jackson also won back to back league individual doubles titles as a junior and senior, and he was apart of the first male doubles team in the Santa Clarita Valley to get past the qualifying rounds of the CIF individual tournament in 10 years. 

After high school, Jackson had to step back in his playing career and started coaching in the Santa Clarita Valley. Jackson was recognized as the youngest Head High School Coach at Valencia High School at age 19. During his time as Head Coach, Jackson developed his players and won the girls league title, ending the drought of titles at the school and making him the youngest Head Coach to win a league title. Along with the league title, Jackson also coached his team to the CIF D1 Quarterfinals. Jackson has experience working with high level juniors that have gone on to play college tennis. 

Jackson then played at Glendale College where he started in singles and doubles and had a winning record in both. In his second year of the program at Glendale he was named Team Captain. Due to Jackson’s performance in community college tennis he then received 34 college offers to various schools ranging from D1, D2, D3, and NAIA. This past fall Jackson has been attending the University of Puget Sound where he played the #1 singles and doubles positions on the team. 

Jackson is currently studying for his degree in Psychology with an emphasis on Sports Psychology. Jackson also has experience with reaching out and speaking with college coaches and he loves passing on what he has learned to the juniors of the club on what it takes to play at the collegiate level and what college coaches are looking for in a potential student-athlete. 

Jackson is currently revisiting offers and has scholarship offers on the table and will be coaching at the club until the Fall of 2022. 

Jackson is excited to pass on the lessons he has learned from his playing and coaching career to the members of The Paseo Club and continue the tradition of the love for tennis at the Club.

Gabe Harmat

USPTA Pro

Gabe was born and raised in Tel Aviv Israel. In 1963 he was introduced to tennis for the first time his was 13 years old.

In two years he won already the juniors and adult championships at his club and a year later he made the national junior team and represented Israel in Germany.

After completing his three year military duty he settled down in the US and continued pursuing his tennis ambitions by coaching and simultaneously  competing on the US and European tour.

His best win came in 1983 in doubles over Shlomo Glickstein who was the French open doubles finalist a year later, and also was 22 on the ATP in singles.

Lack of sponsors and after running out of funds, just like many other pros coaching was the inevitable alternative.

Working in Several clubs in the valley and  LA Gabe has established himself as a prominent pro by winning the USPTA pro of the year twice and producing many college players, he also got to work with ATP  and WTA players such as Dan Dan- China fed. Cup, Nir Welgreen – ATP 160.

At age of 35 Gabe has returned to competition on the senior tour. Staying fit was quite handy leading to high So Cal ranking, US national ranking and number 5 I.T.F  ranking.  Winning the Macabia gold medal (1986), the sectionals in So.Cal, and reaching semi finals twice in I.T.F  world championships were some of his best accomplishments.

Gabe is looking forward to share with you a life span of coaching and playing experience and ready to assist you with your tennis aspirations.

René Heger

USPTA Pro

Dustin Kua

Tennis Instructor

Hello! I’m Dustin Kua, a former division 1 men’s tennis player from Cal Poly and the University of Portland. I grew up playing at the Paseo summer tennis clinics when I was 8 years old and have gained the foundation, enthusiasm, and grit to go onto the collegiate level. I helped coach several of my college teammates as well as kids of all levels to find their inner drive, confidence, and ability to perform on the tennis court.

Gaining the wisdom from many coaches ranging from Paseo pros all the way to former NCAA division 1 champion from USC and UCLA, they have helped me gain experience and knowledge on how to improve not only my game but those around me. I’m super excited to be a part of the staff at the Paseo Club and I’m looking forward to working with all kids, adults, and people of all ages!

Proyfon Lohaphaisan

Tennis Instructor

Proyfon Lohaphaisan is a native of the Santa Clarita Valley and began competing in USTA tournaments when she was 11 years old. She played varsity tennis at Hart High School for 4 years. In her junior year, she and Jackie Resler took the team to their first CIF Southern California Sectionals. In her senior year, she and her doubles partner, Natalia Muñoz, reached the CIF Southern California Sectionals' doubles quarterfinals. After she graduated from Hart High School in 2015, Proyfon played for Quinnipiac University, a Division I tennis team, in Hamden, Connecticut. At Quinnipiac University, she played both singles and doubles for all 4 years. In 2016, she had 46 Division I Single-Season Wins, which placed her #3 in Quinnipiac's single-season record book. For her All-Time Career Wins, she had 120 wins, which placed her #18 in Quinnipiac’s tennis record book. During her 4 years at Quinnipiac, Proyfon and her team won 3 consecutive conference championship tournaments and played in the college tennis NCAA tournament 3 times. 

Proyfon earned a Bachelor’s in Health Science Studies with a minor in Biomedical Sciences. She is CPR/AED/First Aid certified and is in the process of becoming USPTA certified. Recently, she accepted the assistant tennis coach position at Valencia High School. She hopes to share her knowledge and experiences, coach players, and mentor young player's values and skills to use on and off the court. See you on the courts!

KP Puvogel

USPTA Pro

Jackie Resler

USPTA Pro

Darren Woodford

USPTA Pro

Aleksey Zharinov

USPTA Pro

A native of Siberia, Russia, Aleksey was a top-ten junior in the country. He came to the US to go pro but decided to attend college instead. He played #1 singles for the University of Minnesota, helping the team to climb to the #8 spot in the country. Between school, Aleksey traveled all over the US to play professional tournaments, eventually achieving ATP ranking in the summer of 2004. He participated in two exhibition doubles matches (St. Paul, MN 2003, and Grand Forks, ND 2004) against the former #1 doubles team in the world the Jensen brothers. The first match also feared Monica Seles and Anna Kournikova, and the second match was between Andy Roddick and Andre Agassi.

Since 2005, Aleksey has been coaching in numerous country clubs as well as full-time at Lifetime club in Minneapolis. In 2006, he received the “USPTA Northern Section Junior Development Coach of the Year” award. Aleksey has been working at the Paseo club since 2012 raising half a dozen Division 1 and 3 college players during that time. Aleksey’s specialty is technique, and along with helping juniors establish proper fundamental, has been helping many adults to do the same. He has drills almost every day for different levels of players, who want to tap into their full potential.