Ezequiel Gils - Men's Tennis Coach

Ezequiel Gils

Personal Information

Coaching Experience

Playing Experience

2023-24: UAB Head Coach

Served as the head coach of the UAB Blazers for the 2023-24 season
2024-25 recruiting class ranked No. 15 nationally among mid-majors
Coached the doubles pairing of Carlos Gimenez Perez and Juan Pablo Valdez at the ITA Fall National Championships
Concluded the regular season with three-straight wins

Served as a volunteer assistant coach at Alabama for three seasons (2020-23)
Alabama recorded 35 wins during his time as a volunteer assistant coach
Helped coach Filip Planinsek to ITA Rookie of the Year honors in 2022 as Planinsek finished the season as the second-highest ranked freshman in the country at No. 27 and the only freshman from the SEC to hold an end-of-year ranking
Planinsek also earned SEC Freshman of the Year honors, first honoree in program history, as he put together a team-leading 22 singles wins and team-leading 22 doubles wins
Alabama totaled four All-SEC honorees during his first three years with the Tide
Patrick Kaukovalta and Riccardo Roberto advanced to the 2021 NCAA Doubles Tournament, while Edson Ortiz qualified for the singles draw

Began his college coaching career with the Bulldogs
There, he assisted with match coaching, led practices, and recruited players, including an NAIA All-American athlete

Began his collegiate career at Tennessee Tech where he was a member of the 2012 OVC regular season champions before transferring to Tennessee Wesleyan in 2014
Was a two-time NAIA All-American at Tennessee Wesleyan, earning back-to-back All-America honors
Finished senior season with a 17-0 mark in singles and an 18-2 record in doubles, and was named the AAC Men's Tennis Player of the Year in 2015
A two-time team captain, Gils was named to the Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athlete Team as a senior and named Tennessee Wesleyan's Most Representative Male Student.
While in college, he coached at the Hugo Armando Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida where he worked with a number of players, including 2018 Australian Open junior champion Sebastian Korda