Rick Kerpsack

President Tennis Warehouse

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Rick Kerpsack is President of Tennis Warehouse, the online tennis retailer that began as a small shop in San Luis Obispo, California in 1992 and now serves players worldwide from locations in the United States, Europe and Australia. He works alongside founder and CEO Drew Munster in a business that sits within the Sports Warehouse family of specialty retailers, and in 2023 he announced its acquisition of Swetka’s Tennis Shop, a long-established specialty store in Mountain View.

Career Highlights

• President of Tennis Warehouse, the San Luis Obispo tennis retailer founded in 1992 by Drew Munster and Mark Sczbecki.
• Announced the October 2023 acquisition of Swetka’s Tennis Shop, a Mountain View specialty store opened in 1969 and once named Specialty Retailer of the Year by RSI magazine.
• Kept Swetka’s existing staff and widened its range to include pickleball and other emerging categories.

Professional Journey

Tennis Warehouse was founded in 1992 by Drew Munster and Mark Sczbecki as a store in San Luis Obispo. It moved online in 1995, added full online ordering in 1998, and built its reputation on product knowledge: a playtesting crew from 1999, a mail-order racquet demo programme, the Talk Tennis message board and Tennis Warehouse University. It opened Tennis Warehouse Europe in Schutterwald, Germany in 2009 and expanded into Australia through Tennis Only in 2014. Its website is operated by Sports Warehouse, whose other businesses include Pickleball Warehouse, Running Warehouse, Tackle Warehouse and Riding Warehouse.

Kerpsack is the company’s president. The clearest public record of the role is the October 2023 acquisition of Swetka’s Tennis Shop, a family-run Mountain View store founded by Alex and Sally Swetka during the tennis boom of the late 1960s and run for decades by their son John. Announcing the deal, Kerpsack said that “our operational strength paired with Swetka’s customer service is a winning combination.” The 3,000-square-foot shop kept its staff, and Tennis Warehouse added pickleball gear and other new categories to its range.

Education

No education record was found in any first-party or press source.