Greetings, does anyone know of a stress-free way to teach kids to play tennis?
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Greetings, does anyone know of a stress-free way to teach kids to play tennis?
St Martins Old Boy
I saw this item somewhere . I hope it helps.
Dear Tennis Parent, (That’s when you’re trying to teach your child how to play tennis.)
I remember trying to teach my children how to play tennis. It wasn’t a particularly good experience. Here’s why . . .
First, I was never more than an average tennis player myself. Sure, I could play but I didn’t know the REASONS why some shots went IN and others went OUT. Hey, if I knew how to do all the strokes I wouldn’t have been average, would I!
Second, I was the kids’ father. “What does he know?” is a common response when a father tries to teach his own kids. When my shots hit the net it became a fair question.
Now, I’ve found a better way. I’ve passed the teaching bit on to a professional coach instructor, Tomaz Mencinger.
Now, we watch a short tennis coaching video together at home, then we go on the court where the kids practise what we just saw Tomaz do on the video clip. I’m on the sideline cheering them on.
Tomaz is their coach now. Somehow his body moves, racquet techniques and foot placements all seem more coordinated than I could ever manage. The kids pick up the right moves very quickly. Sometimes we hit REPLAY, but not often.
Here’s the best part. I’m no longer a grouch or critic in my kids’ eyes. Now I’m their enthusiastic encouraging Dad. And the family stress level is now down to zero. I’m now the loving Dad who got a personal tennis coach for my kids. All this for us$37. That’s for all 37 lessons. When two kids learn it’s still only $37.
Click here to read more about how I managed to do all this.
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I hope your kids go on to enjoy their tennis. It’s the game for life. Being taught the right moves when they’re young is the best gift any father can give his children. You can try the coaching package for 8 weeks before you decide to keep it. Not bad, huh!
Brian Morris
PS: The whole package is electronic. So it arrives in your email box within minutes. Quick: ask your kids if they’d like to learn tennis with Tomaz as their personal coach.
I never experienced such a joy as when I taught my daughter tennis.As you two (parent and kid) make progress, I think this joy multiplies.I do not know if there is better feeling than to make professional player (and decent human being ) out of your child.The problem is that very few parents are aware of this fact at the time when is happening so they do not experience it at its fullest at the time of happening.The reason for that is enourmous stress which takes part in bringing a child up the competitive ladder.
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The big dilemma is who should teach your child to play tennis.
If your ambition do not exceed recreational tennis, I would recommend that you teach your child tennis even if you know nothing about teaching tennis because:
- your main goal is to have quality time with your child
- you will be much more attentive to your child needs
- maybe you will learn tennis yourself
Of course, you will have to read simple handbook, "How to teach tennis".During the preparation process (and after) teach your child different coordination exercises during which you two will have fun, and at the same time it will develop your child motor abilities.
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What to do if you as a parent have very high aspirations for your child;in other words if you see him/her one day as professional tennis player.
This is very tough question.Is it better that you teach him or hire professional teacher?Dificulty of decision corresponds with difficulty of a tennis as a sport; not to mention to become professional tennis player.The best illustration to support what I am talking about is that very, very few tennis coaches teach their children tennis, and try to make them professional tennis players.
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There are very few exceptionsThe best examples are mothers/coaches:Maleva and Bondarenko who coached their daughters to formidable professionals heights.
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So what are my recommendations based on my experience as a father/coach.
First of all I must be sincere, and say that I have another daughter, I would never do it again, especially as I did first time totally unprepared in a sense like:how much does it cost, how much energy and time is needed, how everything has to be set up around the player etc.
I was well prepared in tennis sense:techniques and tactics.This is not enough because to bring a child up to professional tennis has to be approached as a complex business project, and even then one is not sure that is going to succeed.
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Don't forget Hingis! (Even though when I was hitting with her at Hopman, all Melanie did was feed a ball in from the side.) Seems like you know some things Bubo. You realize too that most of these girls that make it to the top have a special quality that is obvious. The one thing that I saw with Hingis was her ability to be there early and to have the wrist action of a male player. She could turn the ball at the last second like very few I have hit with. Male or female. Very athletic girl. As for the topic question. If you are going to attept to coach your kids, make sure you use proper technique from the very first day. No forehand grip serves or forehand grip volleys. Once that is ingrained and they have been allowed to have bad technique, it will be hard to get them to change to the correct techniques, especially if they have begun to play competitively. It is better to start them off slowly and correctly than to let them have bad mechanics just because they can win a match with it when they are young. They will eventually hit a wall and be unable to beat players with good techniques. It is called good technique for a reason. And biggest of all, smile a lot and have fun with the kids. Don't push too hard as the drive to be good must come from inside of the player. Not from the parent.
in practice, did you ever play a set against Hingis and what was the score?
[QUOTE=Lawn Tennis;15948]in practice, did you ever play a set against Hingis and what was the score?[/QUOT
I beat her 6-1, 6-1 a number of times. She could get a couple of games. She tended to play some of the better juniors a lot as she could beat them but they would give her a decent match. Sukwha Yung was her favorite whipping post. He was one of the better juniors in the U.S.
I did not forget Hingis.I mentioned mothers Maleva and Bondarenko on purpose because former brought three daughters, and latter two daughters to professional tennis which is hard to comprehend.
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Alright Bubo, I have to ask. Are you from Eastern Europe originally? You know quite a few names from that area that most people don't. The Maleevas were quite phenomenal to say the least. They all made it into the top 15 and stayed there quite a while. Especially Maggie. I used to work with a kid named Dimitri Sitak. Does the name ring a bell? I hit with Goran Prpic a couple of times too. There were really some good players from over there. I coached with a guy named Davor who was from Croatia for a while and he was quite good. There is no doubt that parents can teach there kids correctly as long as they understand technique. That's why I believe parents should take a technique lesson or two or pickup some serious instructional videos before they make the attempt to coach. I hate seeing a frying pan western grip on a serve or a volley though. AAARGH! And if the child has those grips and is already playing tournaments, it is so hard to get them to change as they are so fearful of losing. Tells you something about Sampras going to the one hander on his backhand at 14 huh? Scared him to death for the first couple of months I bet.....
Are you serious or are you just pulling my leg?
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Why am saying this?Because nobody who invested so much work, money, energy, nerves would let anyone to lead a tennis training.
In the process of bringing a child up competitive ladder is like being behind enemy lines in the war;one is surrounded by people who do not mean you well.
Melanie does not look like someone who is so naive, and who would let somebody else take over tennis training.
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Let's call Melanie her manager. She set up training times and had Martina on a schedule and traveled with her. When it came down to actually coaching her, she did not. I am being serious. That is why if I were hitting with her, Jimmy Brown or Alvero would be behind her telling her to stay down on the ball or step up or whatever. Sorry, I don't mean to downplay Melanie's important role, but she is not some great tennis player or coach. She was one heck of a manager though. Or, let me rephrase that. She was a great motivator and manager for Martina. Had it only been Martina and Melanie hitting everyday and Melanie had to be her hitting partner, I doubt you would have heard much about Martina Hingis. Anything that Melanie learned was from being on the court with other coaches while they worked with Martina. Now if Melanie didn't like the way things were going with Martina's practice or she felt like things needed to go a different way, she interjected like a manager would, but the tennis coaching was done by others.......
I agree with you that all these girls who became professional tennis players are talented, and the higher to the top they are more talented.There is not substitute for child¨s talent.
I do not agree with you about Hingis qualities.She had very good anticipation so she was able to read opponent balls, and be there early, variety of shots, and court geometry.I would never say for her that she is athletic girl.Athletic girl for me are Clijsters, sister Wiliams, but not Hingis.As a matter of fact her lack of power was obvious.
One can compare males and females of the same age till about 14 years of age.All the other there is no comparison between female and male players of same status in tennis or in any other sport.
She was able to disguise a ball because she was there early, but it is a little bit overexaggerated to say that she could hold shot to a last moment, and that she could change direction by flick of a wrist.
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Ever been on the court with Hingis? I have a thousand times as well as Mary Pierce, Jennifer Capriati, Chandra Rubin, and the guys list is endless. I know an athlete when I see one. She can turn the ball at the last second. It's crazy. Her athleticism is what got her to #1 in the world. Not her power. Two different words with two different meanings. Her balance is phenomenal and her speed and eyesight are exceptional. I watched her beat every ITF ranked junior at Saddlebrook that was a boy, regardless of age. We had the #3 ranked male player in the world and she beat him. Sukwa Young used to take a whipping from her and he was one of the best juniors in the world. And yes, she beat numerous college players that came there. A male that is #300 in the world is a great player and would easily beat her, but that #300 male beats most everybody he plays other than the very top players and those close in ranking to him. Hingis' hand-eye coordination is phenomenal. Heck, go down to Saddlebrook Resort and play a match with her. I promise you she will change your mind quickly. She can still play. She was #1 in the world for quite a while for a reason and made many millions of dollars for a reason. Burnout was her biggest issue. Not the "tremendous power" of today's game. The biggest shot I ever saw in men's tennis from the forehand side was not Sampras (who also hit with us at Saddlebrook) or Agassi or Courier. It was Jimmy Arias. That forehand was sick. Absolutely sick. I warmed him up for some of his matches during the Nuveen Masters Tour series and the pace from him was like nothing I had seen before and it was effortless. I spent three years on the tour too, so I saw my fair share of forehands. Jimmy was 40 years old at the time and his highest ranking was was #4 in the world back in 1984 or so. By the way, Capriati hit the ball as hard as any of todays girls and Hingis constantly beat her in practice. Sorry, but the Hingis not being an super athlete does not float in any boat you try and put it in........
Patience and dedication. taught by my dad since 4 :)
You have great dad!These are great qualities.
The problem is that high competitve environment is very stressful, and even the best persons cannot control themselves all the time.
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I remember one case from $110,000 WTA tournament in Vancouver in 2004.
My player and I were in the gym of the tennis club where the tournament was held.Father and daughter Bartoli were in gym too.My player warmed up for coming match.After my player finished match we came back to the gym so that my player could cool down and strech out.Bartoli were still there.At one moment Marion could not take any longer, and started to cry and ran out of the gym.The father stayed in there.They were avoiding each other for the rest of the day, but next day everything was normal like nothing happened.
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I have never been on court with Martina Hingis, but I still think that she is not modele athlete.I can agree that she is better athlete than Mary Pierce, Jennifer Capriati or Chanda Rubin,but not as good as Kim Clijsters or Venus Williams.
There are five basic physical components:coordination, speed ,endurance, flexibility and strength.I am aware that she has had very good balance and hand/eye coordination.These are segments of coordination.She was very good in first four components, but her strength does not match her caliber as a tennis player.
Without sufficient strength she did not have sufficient power .
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For the moment I will step aside from Martina Hingis and suggest in my opinion the most celebrated parent who taught their kid was Richard Williams. Here is a man with limited educational ability and yet was clever enough to emulate what he saw on tv, tennis tapes and books then brought that to the courts in Compton Ca. to give his daughters very elementary basics of how to hit tennis balls.
I taught my kids how to play and they are both very good tennis players although my daughter doesn't enjoy tennis as much as she likes swimming, so swimming it is for her. The one element anyone needs to have to be successful is patience. Far too many believe if something is simple to them, it must be simple.
My son had a hard time controlling the ball because aside from what I was trying to explain to him, he wanted to hit like the pros from day one. According to him, I wasn't getting to the big hitting lessons quick enough.
He wasn't the least bit interested in building from the ground up. That was my biggest challenge. I came up with a plan to deal with that. One day Iask if he wanted to hit the courts. Five minutes later, he was in the car ready to go. But I made him leave his racquet in the car. Puzzled of course, we actually stood on the court with a tennis ball and no racquets.
Yep we played Hand ball with a tennis ball. He loved it, he was able to see how form made the difference in shot production. My Son & I have a very loving relationship. I explained to him that I wanted him to trust me and if he would just give me one month of doing it my way, he would see a vast improvement on how he controlled the ball.
Do you all remember Alexander Stevenson? I believe it was her mother that made tennis miserable for her. Has she just stayed out of the mix, Alex might still be playing today. Aside from recognizing how good your kid is, I think it's more important to recognize how effective you are.
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[QUOTE=tennisking1;15953]wow. i always wondered how a mid-high ranked atp player would do against a top ten wta player. that must be great practice and quite the challenge for her; bet it's probably a big reason she did so well. do you think Hingis would beat the 1500th ranked atp player?
[QUOTE=Lawn Tennis;16228]That would be a close one. The one thing about Hingis is that she was very quick. If she were playing a guy who was just a backboard, I could see her winning. However, the guys who can really hit the ball and have a big serve would be tough for her to beat.
that makes sense
I agree on this with you completely.If parents have competitve ambitions for their child, they have to hire quality coach from the very beginning to teach him/her proper technique.Something learned incorrectly at young age it will be imposiible to change later on.
I will support this by an example.There was one girl by name Jelena Pandzic from my country (my daughter¨s age).At national championship at 12 and under she lost in 5 games in five matches.She won Orange Bawl 14 and under, and had great chances for great tennis career:I did not see anybody that can practice so indoustrously, and concentrated at so young age.
But, she had problem:her coach taught her to use continental grip for forehand groundstroke.She taught her to use grip which he used for forehand what was very wrong.Once, when realized mistake, it was way too late.Even withher unbelievable committment to practice could not change it, and normally she did not reach ranking even close to her capacity (her best ranking was around 140 WTA).
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Yes, there is a lot of poor technique training going on and it seems to have been allowed just so that the child can have fun. However, it is a lot more fun when you are playing high level tennis and you have good technique. I have a friend who has a tremendous continental forehand, and he hits it tremendously hard, but he is a serve and volleyer. He doesn't waste much time on the baseline. If Pandzic was a baseliner, I just have to laugh. I am surprised how she was allowed to play so long with a continental forehand grip. You should see how many semi-western forehand service grips there are over here in America. GEEZ!!!!!!! It's crazy. Same with the volley. I have seen so many backhand volley grips that face the sky when the player turns. It is terrible. No wonder there are so few serve and volleyers out there anymore. I promise you, I always fix those issues first. From the very beginning.
I know from my own experience that good female tennis player can play very fine tennis.I knew times when I gave my daughter 0/30 in each game, and I bit her.Soon after that (few years time) it was the other way around, and after that it was nonsense to play points.This proves my before mentioned hypothesis that first ones who leave the race are the ones who do not have sound technique.I was physically stronger than my daughter, but she was so much better tehnicaly that after some time it was no contest.
I can only imagine how well player was Hingis in her prime time, but still is difficult to believe that she could beat top class world male junior.It is big difference between male and female tennis.
You say that it would be close match between 1500 ATP player and Martina Hingis.The top world class junior is by far better than 1500 ATP player.
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It just depends on the day. I worked out with Christian Ruud a few times when he was the number one junior player and I know he could have beaten her, but there were times when I know she would have beaten him. If he did not get his first serve in, he was toast. Also, you have to think about matchups. Put Hingis up against someone like a Michael Chang, he will beat her soundly, but it would be a much closer match than her playing Sampras. I watched Christian Ruud lose practice matches to a number of guys who were ranked in the 1200 range when he was the number 1 junior in the world. When you get to that level, you better bring your A game. That 1500 ranked player may have been on the tour for three weeks and was about to break through and become a top 100 player. It's too hard to call. I know for sure that men beat women most of the time, but it was Hingis' tenacity and her competitive nature that kept her number one in the world for nearly four years. Her comeback was for her to have fun and see what happened. She was not the same player after 2000. Besides, most of the guys avoided her at practice. They didn't want to chance a loss. I know Dimitri Sitak lost to her at practice one day when he had just turned pro. He was the number one 16 year old in the world and Russia's top junior. Boy was he mad..........
This is in two parts:
While living in Huntington Beach, Ca. I met a very lovely young lady hitting against the wall one day and of course without hesitation, asked if she wanted to hit. She did and we did ... So immediately I discovered she had very good technique in ball control with reasonable pace and shot select. We weren't playing a match but during a moment when we sat for some water, I told her of my assessment of her game off the ground. We played this game called 21.
It's merely a ground stroke game where you don't serve. Someone starts the point off with an underhand delivery that has to be beyond the service line. From there, game on. your objective is to win the point in anyway you can. We were toe to toe, I'd win a point, she'd win a point. Ok here's my point, based upon ground strokes only, she was equal to what I gave her. I have a fairly big first & second serve and placement has always been a weapon for me. If we were playing a match, I doubt she would have faired well against my serve but taking that out of the mix, she had a good chance of winning.
If you look at some of the biggest hitters on the WTA and matched them up against an ATP player, you would still need to drop down pretty far in the rankings before it would be an equal match because men have the upper body strength that even the best hitters can't match.
Would Serena do well against say James Blake? No I doubt it. But would you need to grab someone below 1000 for her to do well? I doubt that as well. Why would a guy be in the 500's or below 100 in the World if you contend there's very little between the top and bottom?
Next question: There are many celebrated Coaches out there who have helped many of the top players in the world but all things are not equal. What a coach achieves with one player does not mean he will achieve with another. It's what that player brings to the table. Not everyone is destined to be a Nadal or Federer no matter how hard they work. There's an unknown factor in all players that cap their overall results. Some guys will never win a major no matter how hard they try. They can even have an occasional win over say Federer or Nadal but when it comes to the majors, the Champions rise to another level that most players just can't do.
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I agree with you, but if there is not competent leadership it will all be useless.
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"Tennis In 2 Hours" by Oscar Wegner (in any majoar bookstore) and his DVDs (available online) teaches how easy it is to learn tennis with proper basics, instinct and feel. Kids take to it like fish to water, and you will be able to rally with your child in minutes while demonstrating the techniques used by the pros right from the start.
Oscar also offers a certification program for parents to insure proper application of his methodology, whether the child is being coached by the parent or someone else.
Try it - Richard Williams did and got pretty good results...
You can go to www.moderntenniscoaches.com to read about getting certified in the method mentioned above or just to read some interesting tennis articles.
To be a quality tennis coach, one has to know the essence of tennis.It is very difficult to grasp everything concerning tennis, and put it in few sentences.Draw clear line between priorities and make up.So, to take few tennis lessons or picup serious instructional video will not do it.Why?Because most of the parents do not understand the basics (any athletic activity, tennis) so they will get distorted picture because of lack of knowledge.They would not be able to see what to look for and what is going on.
Then, they will apply this distorted picture to teach their children which will result in failure.
To become quality tennis coach needs experience, knowledge, passion, talent, committment.All this takes a lot of time, and it is actually never ending process which just very few live, the others just can talk about it.
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You make some very excellent points the correct technique must be started from day 1 or you have to undo a lot of muscle memory. Which technique has been proven to be the most successful? After all, tennis is plagued by the disease of contradictory data, one coach teaches closed stance forehands despite the fact every pro prefers hitting with an open stance forehand. One coach teaches step forward into the ball when I teach tennis is so filled with myths and perceptions such as this. As an example, I think this whole idea of stepping forward into the ball is hogwash. Here is how I teach it. This is one of the many myths that inhibits playing your best tennis. Please let me give a summary. The game is filled with too many teaching myths. By the way, I grew up with Jimmy Connors as a neighbor about six years older than me and followed him closely. Here is a great summary of what I mean.
"A few of the myths in the game are approach up the line, can’t spin the ball with an eastern grip, can’t hit the ball with a western grip, and there are several others. But there’s no more damning myth than to tell somebody to move their feet more. This became clear to me at the US Open a few years ago. It was hot and Lleyton Hewit and Gustavo Kuerten came on the court.....Both of them are great players and were at this time. I was most amazed that they took no more than two movements for any ball after the split step, and I just couldn’t believe that. It called into question so many things I had learned. I grew up watching Jimmy Connors with happy feet, literally machine gun feet, and here I was watching two of the best players on the tour, doing one tenth the amount of work that Jimmy Connors did, and probably half the work that I tried to do for each ball, and they did so without ever losing balance, they were always well loaded for their shots, and they were never late, never late at all. What I’ve come to know is that all those steps that I took because I was so concerned about being in the right position took time away from me, there just wasn’t enough time for me to get into the right position because the ball was coming back and forth too quickly, and now efficiency of movement is much more important than the quickness of the movements.
This brings me to loading, which I would say is at least misinterpreted or misunderstood often. I can’t stand hearing the statement “hit off the front foot.” I think the back foot lays the ground work for every groundstroke. If that back foot is not in position and not fully loaded, we are incapable of hitting quality consistent ground strokes. Indeed, sometimes we fire from out back foot to our front foot, and that's understandable, but more times than not, at least at the professional level, the loading and the firing continues the player in another direction other than forward."
I hope you would consider that tennis instruction is most effective if it is simplified. I am a tennis historian publishing a book on The Real History of Tennis instruction, excerpts which can be read at
http://www.moderntenniscoaches.com/f....php?f=20&t=13
I am an MTM coach, I teach per the tenets of Oscar Wegner's Modern Tennis Methodology, which though 40 years old and adopted by Spain in the early 1970s when Oscar was one of three National Coaches, was laid out in 1989 in his revolutionary book "Tennis in 2 Hours." Oscar claims tennis is simple using a few simple instructions, and the proof is that vindicated by evidence and history that MTM is the quickest way to learn to play tennis.
A few quotes, or do you disagree with these?
Oscar is a great coach. He makes the most advanced concepts of the game simple and clear. In a few days he helped me regain my strokes and my feel for the ball. Bjorn Borg, winner of eleven Grand Slam Tennis Titles. If you doubt the effect Oscar had on Bjorn Borg's game, read the History of Tennis Instruction 1992 entry.
Bud Collins, NBC Commentator/Historian: I know people that couldn’t learn tennis in two lifetimes, but they never met Oscar Wegner. This is a short course of you hitting balls, lots of them, soon. You will find it worthwhile to dump the past and join Oscar in your tennis future.”
"I took Oscar and John up on their invitation to bring two total beginners and let Oscar teach them using EZ Tennis. I stood alongside Oscar as two personal friends of mine, a mother and her son, played tennis for the first time ever. I was amazed as within 45 minutes, they were rallying from just beyond the service line, not only keeping balls in play, without putting very many balls in the net, but hitting off both sides with topspin. They had no idea what they had accomplished, as it was so easy, but they were having a great deal of fun. The husband watching, knew he had just watched his wife and son become two new tennis players!" ~Myra Rowan; Executive Director, St. Louis District Tennis Association
Hi John, I really enjoyed our session. I got much more out of it than I believed possible. I believe my game will improve as much as 30-40% because of your coaching methods...that's a lot. I thought I had it down when it came to tennis technique...I've read countless tennis books, taken countless lessons and I have taught some tennis working as an assistant to some very well known teaching professionals...Oscar's method may be coined modern but to me it's more "organic" than anything else. Feel free to quote me. How about next Sunday if you have an opening? Dan Doroux,RCI Racquet Club, Irvine CA
“After sensing something wasn’t right watching our children take lessons from different pros, I did some research and bought Oscar Wegner’s DVDs. They made perfect sense so I called Oscar whereupon he sent me to an MTM certified coach, John Carpenter. My 4 year old Noah and 8 year old Leah have been taking lessons from John for a couple weeks. The improvement has been incredible. I could not even anticipate my daughter looking like a pro in such a short time, achieving a 144 ball rally in three weeks of lessons. Further research and watching my 4 year old son rally like a little pro makes me feel both are getting world class coaching. But the biggest gift John and MTM has given them is a love to play tennis that did not exist before. Now they always want to play. ” Yury Gampel Calabasas, CA
There is more than enough evidence that there is one best way to start all tennis players and if you don't think this is why the Russians dominate the women's rankings, read the Spartak Article on www.moderntenniscoaches.com in the MTM forum. Or is this coach wrong?
Tatiana Matokhnyuk, top international Russian coach to World #3 Nadia Petrova and Marcus Baghdatis said about an MTM Coaching Clinic held by MTI (in Cyprus, home to Baghdatis): "You won't find beginners improve this quickly with any other method. Modern Tennis is the only way to teach at all levels, it's how we do it Russia...surely everyone teaches this way."
Maybe tennisking1 knows her. I would like to know what he thinks of Oscar Wegner of www.tennisteacher.com. I have taught tennis for 30 years and every USPTA and PTR method down the pike I've tested personally. Though I am a PTR Pro, I teach MTM, Modern Tennis Methodology because it gets instant results. I don't follow Oscar, I follow his results. If you were overseas during the 1990s teaching tennis, you must have seen his famous TV tennis tips that appeared in 150 plus countries on ESPN International but never to this day appeared on USA TV. He was also the Spanish Commentator for tennis as well as is responsible for developing Guga Kuerten, who he coached for eight years. Are you familiar with him?
We are about to go public with our MTM certification at www.moderntenniscoaches.com. Evidence and history say MTM works best. Do you know of any tennis methodology that works better? I will promote it if you do. I know tennis theory like very few do. If you don't think so, check out the History of Tennis link above which just contains excerpts. I have five years of research and 30 years of tennis study and teaching behind me.
As I said before, first one who leave the race are the ones who do not have sound technique.
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300 ATP can easily beat Martina Hingis or any female professional player.On the other hand he is 300 ATP because this is his value, and he cannot beat almost everybody he plays other than very top players.It is good when he beats players close to his ranking, and when he beats somebody 50-100 places better it is called upset.
Looking stricly tennis wise to be 300 ATP is great achievement, but if ones looks at it using cost/benefit analysis 300 ATP player is a person who wasted someone¨s money and his time.
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In Depth Description of Bringing a Child Up a Competitive Ladder with Advices and Recommendations
Let me say how exactly correct you are! It sounds like your daughter was ranked somewhere in the same range as I was on the men's tour. (300-400 range). It felt good to have the respect of people who knew how good you were at tennis, but I made hardly any money compared to the expenses I had coming out. The companies can't sponsor everyone and the food and travel expenses are crazy. Luckily I had great gear and clothing sponsorships with Head and Adidas, but they didn't give me money. After awhile, stressing out about whether you were going to have the money to continue can really put pressure on you mentally. I was a claycourter who lived in the United States, so guess what, I had to go to South America and Europe to play claycourt tournaments. It was very expensive. Maybe I should have learned to chip and charge, huh? There is no argument in me about anything you say Bubo. I can tell you know your stuff. It's nice to see how another coach thinks.
If one does not have good technique, it is almost impossible to play high level tennis.
It is no fun at all.On the contrary, it is very frustrating.
I will give an example.
I learned tennis by myself.I started rather late (12 year old), and except going few month in tennis school, the rest of it I did it by myself.I watched better players play, I played against recreational players on the way up, I had one tennis book which I reread hundred times, and played against wall (sometimes 5 yours in one day).
I was number 3 junior in my country, but because I did by myself I had a lot of shortcomings:my serve was weak, I could not play volleys and overhead smash.
I was known that I was consistent (always played very close to my capabilities).
In my playing career I would never loose of somebody objectively weaker player.There is one exception.Twice I played one recretional player, and I lost both times.
I was counterpuncher, I fed off another player¨s ball speed.I did not feel comfortable when I had to lead the game.That player just did that, and called me to the net many times where I was helpless.
Very frustrating.
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In Depth Description of Bringing a Child Up a Competitive Ladder with Advices and Recommendations