Former tennis champ coaches Grand Masters
Todd Rubinstein, a former twotime state tennis champion at Cooper City High School, has enjoyed success in the sport on many levels, but a recent experience dwarfs them all.
The current head tennis professional at the Lauderdale Tennis Club recently coached the USA Grand Masters team at the 20th annual World Maccabiah Games, and that is one highlight in his career that he will never forget.
After his outstanding high school career on the courts with the Cooper City Cowboys, the 47-year-old Pembroke Pines resident went on to excel at Barry University in both the number one singles and doubles positions. There, he became a three-time All Sunshine State Conference player.
Rubenstein has won numerous United States Tennis Association (USTA) titles and is the head coach at Alonzo & Tracy Mourning Senior High School in North Miami Beach, where he won the 2017 Florida High School Tennis Coach of the Year.
Going to Israel with a team of 20 Grand Masters members of ages 65-80, Rubinstein saw his players medal in six of seven events. Three of those six medals were gold.
If not for two injuries, the medal count could have been much higher.
“This was all about the players, and for me to give them the best experience possible,” Rubinstein said. “Coming to Israel for the first time was an amazing and unbelievable experience and I would absolutely do it again.”
Lazar Lowinger, who traveled all the way down from Kissimmee to be a part of Rubenstein’s talented squad, made it very worthwhile as he won the gold medal in the Men's 80s Doubles Division.