Coaching Tennis Successfully

As a coach, your success depends on the success of your players. Now you can better ensure players’ development and team performance with Coaching Tennis Successfully. The United States Tennis Association (USTA) presents this comprehensive manual with information on planning productive practices, conducting drills, developing physical and mental skills, and teaching match tactics. You’ll find ideas to prepare singles players and doubles teams for competitive matches. Plus, the book offers the best methods and helpful tips for teaching key skills: • Footwork • Serves • Groundstrokes • Overheads and volleys With more than 670,000 members and programs that encompass all 50 states and beyond, the USTA is able to tap into the best minds and mentors in tennis coaching. Coaching Tennis Successfully synthesizes and shares that expertise to give you the winning edge!

'Coaching Tennis Successfully' covers key areas for developing a winning tennis programme, including all key on and off court organization and management duties.

A complete resource for tennis coaches; How to attract tennis players to your team; how to train large numbers of tennis players with minimal resources; how to train all players to reach high levels of skilled play; how to create passionate tennis players; how to build perennial championship teams in any social-economic environment or geographical location.

If you are interested in a tennis career, or want to learn more about the tennis business, this comprehensive book will help you fulfill your dream. A tennis career has been the life's passion of Scott Smith, a 2013 USPTA California District 5 pro of the year. He has coached hundreds of students who have won countless awards. As playing tennis improved their physical and mental abilities, the smiles and joy in the faces of his students has been Scott's most cherished reward. In this helpful, inspirational, detailed book, Scott Smith shares with you the knowledge he has accumulated over 45 years of coaching tennis in Colorado and California. The many enjoyable anecdotes he relates is proof that tennis is much more than the simple act of hitting the ball over the net. Tennis is a game where ladies and gentlemen engage in the process of becoming better citizens, better human beings, no matter if winning or losing.

Chuck Kriese, men's head tennis coach at Clemson University and former U.S. Junior Davis Cup Team coach, is the all-time winningest coach in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and his career victories stand among the top in U.S. collegiate history. His coaching accomplishments include eleven ACC titles, eight national top ten finishes, and six ACC Coach of the Year awards. The Kriese coaching legacy has produced thirty All-Americans, sent twenty-three former players to the professional ranks, and spawned twelve current collegiate level coaches from among his former players and assistants. Coach Kriese is the author of three other books--Total Tennis Training, Winning Tennis, and Youth Tennis. He has lectured on the sport in the United States, England, Japan, Spain, and the Netherlands. Coaching Tennis, formerly published as Total Tennis Training, is a recipe for total player development that gives players and coaches the competitive edge when it comes to understanding the complex sport of tennis. The most comprehensive coaching guide available, it is complete with detailed descriptions of physical training techniques, useful approaches for mental and emotional development, and keys to establishing player strategy and team unity. Updated to discuss every conceivable aspect of the modern game from technical skills to momentum management, practice drills to goal setting, directional guidelines to coaching philosophies--discover Coach Kriese's unique motivational program, a formula proven in competition and proven by champions.

This book combines the sport sciences of biomechanics, motor learning, exercise physiology, and sport psychology into one comprehensive volume.