Episode Details

Teaching Young Tennis Players

On the 37th episode of the GreatBase Tennis Podcast, Steve Smith and Andy Fitzell discuss teaching young tennis players. The topic is close to their hearts because they both feel strongly that most young tennis players do not receive quality tennis instruction. They do acknowledge the efforts of their fellow tennis-teaching professionals but emphasize the need for improvement.  GreatBase Tennis has assembled information, ideas and insights that truly can help improve the standard of tennis teaching. 

Topics include:

• Concerns
• Terms
• Education
• What's not fun
• Fact's of our time
• The three E's of a tennis lesson
• Rewards
• Rules
• Form, target and skill tournaments
• Contests
• Happy vs successful
• Game-based training
• 7200 square feet
• Cones
• Stand-still shot
• Peer teaching
• Groups
• Selling tennis
• Parent meetings
• Accountability
• Programs
• In the U.S.A.
• +More!