Nathan started playing tennis at the age of 9 and was among the top players in his native country, the Netherlands, throughout his junior years. After finishing high school he opted to play NCAA I college tennis for Temple University in Philadelphia, where he graduated cum laude with a B.A. in photojournalism.
He started teaching tennis once he moved back to the Netherlands and worked on a freelance basis for several academies, both recreational as well as professional. For the last few years he combined his work as a photojournalist with coaching top junior players during ITF tournaments, which brought him to countries such as China, Israel, Finland, Algeria among others