Showing posts with label USTA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USTA. Show all posts

Sunday, February 6, 2022

Opelka discusses Tennis Media

 It is bad and most tennis coaches and good players know it.  The questions that the journalists ask tennis players are often beyond stupid.

 

 Here is a link to an interview with Reilly Opelka

It's a good interview and on point. Tennis media, in general, is bad news. I see many tennis journos praising their favorites, and they spend their remaining time attacking players that aren't.



Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Do We Need to Police Tennis Coaching?

 I like to think of elite coaches as World Class Chefs while others know how to run a fast food joint and put out the volume with palatable results that fill stomachs on the cheap. You need the spectrum. You even need so-called inferior coaches just as much as you need people with quirky personalities so you have a basis and reference points for judging the norm. If you have a norm in a skill set, then you can judge the superior ones and even the brilliant. Should we only allocate court time for players and teachers above a certain skill level? We need anyone willing to share the game with others, and even volunteers with limited skills and knowledge have a place just like parents coaching kids as volunteers. I had a former college player as a team coach once and I learned little from him while a music teacher volunteer turned out the be the one who got all the kids out to play, including me. I suggest that it's best to help other teachers move forward and not drive them out.

 

Landsorp on American Tennis Coaching

 

 

Friday, July 16, 2021

What has happened to American Men's Professional Tennis

Everything goes in cycles. The USA had its turn for a long time. Australia had a great run. and probably will again. Eastern and Southern Europe is strong right now while Western Europe is about to lose the Swiss footprint after Fed retires and odds are we won't see another top Swiss player for a generation. I'm waiting for Asia to fill the ranks. When it comes to tennis, I dont see flags especially when it comes to favorite players. Right now, I lean Serbian. Coaching, and education here in the USA can only produce top results from committed students. We have too many distractions which is one of the curses of an easy life and wealth.

Monday, February 4, 2019

National Tennis Center - How it has transformed the American Tennis Scene

USTA National Tennis Center - Success

It's good that the USTA has taken the lead for rebuilding Professional Tennis in the USA.