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Why Would You Want Your Kids to Play Tennis?

By Javier Palenque Tennis parents, look at these facts and make your own calculations: * Odds of becoming a tennis pro 2 in 10000 or 0.0002. That does not seem possible. * Break even for a pro is #150 or approx. $160K year. Dad how much do you make a year? * It takes 4-8 years…
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Go With the Flow

by Damon Valentino Special from Valentino performance In my era of competitive junior tennis, players used a slang phrase to describe when they (or other players) were playing their best. It went something like this: “I was treeing out of my mind today”. Or, “He was treeing out his mind.” Or in a more frustrating moment…
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Building A Game: The Tennis Imagination

by Joel Drucker The boy, call him Antonio, was 15 years old and rapidly improving. Lately he’d even practiced with a man who’d competed extensively on the ATP World Tour. The ex-pro told the mother how good the boy’s groundstrokes were. He also made a comment that left her confused: Antonio will get even better…
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Tennis Level Does Not Equal Tennis Level

by Todd Widom I think there is a misconception in the tennis world that you need to be playing with higher level tennis players, junior or professional, in order to become a higher level tennis player. Level does not equal level. If you want to maximize your potential, you need to put your blue-collar work…
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SKILL ACQUISITION VS. SKILL RETENTION

The Rossetti Brothers “The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without.” ~Leopold Auer The amount of learning versus the duration of your learning is different depending upon the way that…
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Why don’t we treat our coaches like athletes?

The challenges coaches face and the skills required to be a great coach are misunderstood. As is how we best support them and ensure that they are able to perform to the best of their abilities in key moments. The goods news is that the average person understands the pressures a coach experiences – the media…
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