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The following post is an excerpt from The Tennis Parent’s Bible.  Thanks for visiting, Frank Giampaolo

Accelerate your Tennis Game at a Faster Rate

Nature versus nurture is one of the oldest debates in sports: Are great athletes born or made? Are innate physical qualities—size, speed, and coordination—more important than learned behaviors? It would be foolish to boil it down to an either–or conclusion.

Plenty of evidence supports the belief that both factors play an integral part in an athlete’s development. The influence of either factor generally depends on the athlete. From this perspective, every player’s profile is unique. To maximize the player’s potential, the player and coach must understand the player’s genetic predisposition along with personal life experiences. Once players are fully attuned to their personality, body type, and athletic foundation, they can more effectively adapt their playing style. Having an innate stylistic preference leads to numerous advantages.

Benefits of Knowing Your Playing Styles:

• The knowledge to hire coaches and trainers who possess personalities best suited to accelerate her learning curve;
• The confidence that comes with knowing exactly how your athlete performs best;
• The skill to lure opponents out of their preferred style and force them to play out of their comfort zones;
• The ability of your athlete to impose their  best style, strategies, and tactics on the most important points;
• Improves you athlete’s ability to reach the goal of mastering a minimum of three playing styles—called A, B, and C game plans—which adds depth and variation to the their game; and
• The competence to select a stylistically complementary doubles partner to help form a winning team.

Though there are subtle variations, six basic playing styles are seen in tennis. It is important to know which style is most effective for your player and how your player can best compete against each styles.

• Net-Rusher
• All-Court Player
• Baseline Counter-puncher
• Aggressive Baseliner
• Retriever
• Finesse Player

Accelerate your child’s tennis game by identifying their playing style (which is based on their preferred learning preference.) For more information of player see CHAMPIONSHIP TENNIS and/or The Tennis Parent’s Bible.

Thank you for visiting, Frank

Contact: Frank Giampaolo
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