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Acclaimed coaches & championship players offer tips & techniques for recruiting, training, conditioning, practicing & playing winning collegiate tennis.
Tennis is the essential book for anyone looking to learn tennis or improve his or her game. Along with basic descriptions of skills and fundamentals, it includes updated information on equipment, tennis organizations, rule changes, and more. Joan D. Johnson is a professor emeritus at UCLA. Paul J. Xanthos is a professor emeritus at Los Angeles Pierce College. Ann Lebedeff is an associate professor at Pomona-Pitzer Colleges.
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.
Coaching Tennis Technical and Tactical Skills is a practical resource that will help you become a better high school, club, or college tennis coach. With the expert guidance of Kirk Anderson, director of recreational coaches and programs for the United States Tennis Association, you will learn coaching and evaluating skills and then focus on technical and tactical skills of tennis, including quick tips on detecting and correcting errors in your athletes, cues athletes need to be aware of in various tactical situations, and key information your athletes need to know to make the appropriate decisions on the court. Skills are cross-referenced so you can see how the skills relate to each other and quickly determine how to use them in practice situations. Whether you are a veteran coach or just a beginner, this book will help you take your coaching to the next level by providing you with the tools you need to teach athletes the game of tennis.
Praise for the previous edition:"This comprehensive updated edition...is a necessary reference book for all interested in a career in sports."-ChoiceWith America's continued quest for health and fitness, sports have become
If you are looking for a training system that prepares tennis players for the pressures of competitive match play, look no further than Pressure Tennis. This instructional book shows you how to raise the level of intensity of your practices, increasing their effectiveness and mentally toughening up your players. Tennis coach Paul Wardlaw has created and refined his extraordinary training program through his 14 successful seasons at the college level. Through his system, you will learn how to design and implement effective practice sessions using pressure drills that simulate match-like conditions. Pressure Tennis will also demonstrate how you can help your players develop - high-percentage t...
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