Ojo Thompson

Ojo Thompson is a former semi-professional tennis player, NCAA Division I athlete, Hall of Fame inductee, and respected tennis coach with over 30 years of teaching, coaching, and player-development experience.

His tennis journey reflects a powerful combination of elite playing experience, competitive achievement, coaching leadership, and long-standing commitment to community tennis development. As a collegiate athlete at Southern University, Ojo helped lead the university's tennis team to three Southwestern Athletic Conference championship titles from 1991 to 1993. In 1994, he became the Number 1 Individual Singles Champion, further establishing himself as one of the standout players of his era.

A former top-10 ranked tennis player in Nigeria, Ojo also gained international exposure through ATP qualifying appearances and Junior ITF involvement in Casablanca, Morocco. His experience across national, collegiate, semi-professional, and international tennis environments gives him a rare depth of knowledge that he now brings into player training and development.

Ojo's coaching career includes serving as Assistant Tennis Coach and Interim Head Coach at Southern University. He later expanded his impact through community and youth tennis development, serving as Tennis Instructor at Southern Oaks Tennis Club, Tennis Outreach Director at the Paula Manship YMCA, and Tennis Development Manager with BREC from 2009 to 2026.

In recognition of his outstanding contributions to tennis and athletics, Ojo Thompson was inducted into the Southern University Sports Hall of Fame in June 2011.

Through Ojo Thompson Tennis Academy, he continues his lifelong mission of developing confident, disciplined, technically sound, and competitive tennis players. His academy is built on excellence, mentorship, discipline, and the belief that the next generation of tennis talent can be shaped through world-class instruction, strong character, and consistent development.