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Coaching Tennis Successfully Coaching Tennis Successfully
About the Product
As a coach, your success depends on the success of your players. In
Coaching Tennis Successfully, the United States Tennis Association
(USTA) combines the expertise of winning coaches with the experience of
USTA players to serve up a comprehensive guide that ensures your
success. They offer specific teaching tips and mentoring concepts for
managing a winning tennis program.
An organization known for its teaching prowess, the USTA explains how
to instruct players in strokes, footwork, volleys, overheads, and
serves. In addition to teaching the basics, this book will assist you
in effectively integrating game strategies and tactical concepts into
your lessons to facilitate the development of well-skilled, competitive
players.
Reaching beyond strokes and strategies, this essential handbook covers both on-court and off-court management duties:
- Demonstrating a sound approach to coaching and playing tennis
- Maximizing practices with structured plans and drills
- Communicating with your team
- Training players to withstand the physical and mental challenges of the game
- Developing a mentoring relationship with individual players
As owner and operator of the highest-attended annual sporting event in
the world--the U.S. Open--the USTA knows tennis. And, with access to
some of the top names in tennis coaching, the USTA knows coaching.
Competitive teams, confident players, and thriving tennis programs all
emerge from educated coaches, so get the edge in this one complete
guide--Coaching Tennis Successfully.
About the Author
The United States Tennis Association (USTA)
is the governing body for tennis in the United States. The USTA’s
membership consists of more than 670,000 individuals and thousands of
organizations, including schools, park and recreation departments,
community tennis associations, and tennis clubs.
Encompassing all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands,
American Samoa, and Guam, the USTA is composed of 17 geographical
sections, each of which maintains its own staff to administer USTA
programs, establishes its own tournament schedule, and issues its own
rankings. Thousands of volunteers and full-time personnel implement the
varied USTA programs on the sectional, district, and local levels.
The USTA is known as the owner and operator of the U.S. Open
Championships, one of the four Grand Slam professional tournaments in
worldwide tennis competition. The U.S. Open is the highest annually
attended sporting event in the world. In addition, it owns 96 pro
circuit events throughout the United States and selects the U.S. teams
for the Davis Cup, Fed Cup, Olympic Games, and Paralympic Games.
National coordination and administration of the USTA’s efforts are
facilitated by the full-time staff at the national headquarters in
White Plains, New York, the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing
Meadows, New York, and the USA Tennis High Performance headquarters in
Key Biscayne, Florida. The USTA works closely with the two major
coaching certifying organizations—the U.S. Professional Tennis
Association (USPTA) and the Professional Tennis Registry (PTR). These
alliances emphasize coaching education and development through an
ambitious offering of coaching seminars, workshops, and conferences.
Ron Woods coordinated the development, and wrote selected
chapters, of this new edition of Coaching Tennis Successfully. Ron has
served the USTA for almost 20 years as director of player development
as well as the director of the USTA’s Community Tennis Programs. He was
a college tennis coach for 17 years and has been a member of the United
States Olympic Coaching Committee and the International Tennis
Federation Coaching Commission. Woods has written or contributed to
many coaching books and videos over the past 15 years. He and his wife,
Kathy, live in Westport, Connecticut.
NOTE: This is nonreturnable product and all purchases are final.
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