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Are doubles really that important anymore?

Posted on June 25, 2015 by in Tennis Specific Training

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

Is the game of doubles really that important anymore?

If tennis is known as the sport of a life -time, the most popular form of tennis has to be doubles!

In Southern California, doubles can be found in the 10 and under events, all the way up to the 90 and over division. Our children will be enjoying the game of doubles way after their competitive career is over. A common thread found in senior tennis, recreational tennis, junior club teams, high school ball or even college tennis are doubles.

FUN FACT: A top woman’s college coach said this about recruiting players. “In college tennis, doubles is so important, I’d much rather have a top 40 ranked player in singles with a top 30 doubles ranking any day than a top 10 singles player who has avoided playing doubles throughout their junior career.”

The USTA made a critical decision a few years back- combining the singles and doubles rankings into the national ranking system. This means that here in the U.S., a player’s doubles results are an important addition to their overall National Ranking. (The rankings formula includes doubles ranking as a percentage in the overall ranking calculation- singles and doubles are not weighted equally. For more information:http://www.usta.com/YouthTennis/JuniorCompetition/Ranking/#Calculating%20Standings%20&%20Rankings )

On a monthly basis, 20 percent of the questions I now receive are doubles related questions. Below, I have 4 common questions along with answers and solutions:

 

Question: What do we look for when picking a partner?

Answer: There are a few essential elements that make a winning combination: Chemistry! Can they laugh and have fun winning or losing.

  • Seek a partner that compliments their style. It is often called: The Hammer & Wedge System. If you are a hammer…seek a wedge.
  • Possess a common understanding of the nuances of doubles.
  • Pick someone better than you.

I recommend going out to lunch and “talk shop”. See if the basic personalities of all parties “gel.” Some parent/coaches will only allow their child to play one style on all points regardless of the situation. This could prove disastrous. (The pro’s on tour rotate their formations.) Next, play at least 2 practice matches together before committing to an event.

 

Question: My son is shy. He knows he should communicate to his partner during the match, but does not know what to say. What’s your advice?

Answer: Doubles communication is critical in avoiding let downs and dissecting opponents. It is also important that team is synchronized; working as one. Here are some very important strategic issues that your son can use to communicate with his partner:

  • The opponent’s technical strokes, strengths and weaknesses.
  • The opponent’s favorite tactics and patterns that he has spotted.
  • Identify the opponent’s system of play and their likes and dislikes.
  • Investigate the opponent’s focus, intensity or lack of intensity.
  • How to expose your team’s strengths and hide your weaknesses.
  • Nonverbal communication is also very important. Facial expressions, body language or even tone of voice is detectable.

SPECIAL NOTE: Between points and during change-over is when constant communication occurs. On the Pro tour, doubles partners communicate an average of 80 times a match.

 

Question: My 12 year old daughter is scared of doubles. She says it’s confusing. Can you point her in the right direction?

Answer: Promote that doubles is a blast! Its team tennis, so she’s not out there all alone. Take her to watch high school tennis matches or better yet, college ball. As you watch doubles, begin explaining the role of each position in doubles. There are unique job descriptions, patterns, positions, and tactical options in each one.

She will need to develop the tactical options for all four of these positions:

1.)  The Server

2.)  The Server’s Partner

3.)  The Return of Server

4.) The Returner’s Partner

 

Question: My daughter will not go to the net because she says she just gets lobbed. What is she doing wrong?

Answer: Often in juniors, we see players attack the net and place their volley’s back deep, right to the baseline opponent. This gives the baseline opponent plenty of time to lob.

Here’s a question. Which opponent doesn’t have reaction time? Is it the opposing net player or the opposing baseliner? The opposing net player is vulnerable and they can’t lob effectively from that court position.

FUN FACT: The basic rule is hit long to long and short to short. That means if your daughter is back, hit to the opposing back court opponent. If your daughter is at the net, juice the opposing net girl!

 

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Goal Setting

Posted on May 18, 2015 by in Blunders and Cures

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BLUNDER: Overlooking Goal Setting

Goal setting and organizational plans should be used as soon as you enter into the competitive phase. After an event, plan on setting some goals as you schedule your upcoming lessons. Sit down with your entourage to review your performance at an appropriate time. This analysis will provide your “Blue Print” for the upcoming weeks’ worth of lessons and clinics.

There are four basic sides to your game that need to be developed religiously. Examples include:

  1. Technical: (Example: Slice backhand)
  2. Tactical: (Example: How to beat a moonball/pusher)
  3. Movement/Fitness: (Example: Develop core strength and stability)
  4. Emotional/Focus: (Example: Practicing closing out 5-2 leads)

At all levels of competition, matches should be viewed as an information gathering session. The overall objective is to maximize your potential at the quickest rate. Winning comes from experience and experience comes from both winning and losing.

CURE: Identify an area in your game that can be improved upon in each of the four sides of development.

  1. Technical:
  2. Tactical:
  3. Movement/Fitness:
  4. Emotional/Focus:

Define a plan of attack for each of the 4 skills identified. Evaluate the plan after its implementation and determine if the plan is working? Adjust as necessary but continue to train on the skills you need most.

Ask Yourself?

Did you find one flaw per category you wish to improve? Did you set aside time to review your list with your coach and devise a plan on working to improve your identified weaknesses? Do you have a style of opponent that you hate to play? Have you ever taken a month and focused on developing the tools to actually beat that particular style of opponent? Or do you do the same drills week after week and hope for different results?

 

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Mental and Emotional Tennis Tournament Tips

Posted on March 16, 2015 by in Primary and Secondary Strokes, The Tennis Parent's Bible

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Ten Tennis Tournament Tips

As tournament play approaches, common stumbling blocks sabotage even the most talented athletes. Often the difference between winning and losing is simply applying the following mental and emotional tips:

1. Warm up your primary and secondary strokes and patterns  Before a match, warm up the stroke and patterns needed to beat the style of opponent you are about to face. Have the appropriate game plan ready. If you do not know anything about your opponent’s style of play, warm up all your strokes.

2. In the match, keep your intensity and focus up until the match is complete. Often you have a comfortable 4-1 lead and tend to relax and lose focus, now thanks to you, it’s a 5-5 dog fight! Changing from “Playing to win” to “Playing not to lose” is changing a winning style of play.

3. Worthy opponents change their losing game plans. Your opponent switches to their plan “B” and you fail to spot the tactical change and fail to adapt and problem solve.

4. Spot and control the Mega and Mini Mega Points. Remember, you have to take the match from a champion. Expecting them to fall apart and quit when it gets tough won’t happen against the top players. Controlling the “big” points is a critical factor.

5. Perform your Between Point Rituals. Controlling the tempo of the match, your heart rate, mistake & anger management and problem solving takes place in between points. Often against weaker players you don’t bother doing your between point and changeover rituals. Later when you come up against a real competitor, you’re not comfortable with the feelings of problem solving and rituals which makes you uncomfortable applying it.

6. Apply the laws of offensive, neutral and defensive shot selection. Some players tend to go for glamorous offensive shots when they are in a neutral “building” situation. Others tend to get scared and fall back to simply hitting neutral shots when they have an offensive situation. Selecting the appropriate shot at the right time is high performance tennis.

7. Control the energy flow. Your opponent wins 3 games in a row and you just wander aimlessly to the next point. Your head is slumped, like a “poor me”…with a “deer in the headlights” look on your face. You are the only one who can stop this energy flow.

8. Second match warm up routines. Before the second match of the day you don’t bother to re-start your pre match rituals. You don’t bother with a short warm up or visualization with your next opponent’s game in mind. Heck, you don’t even go for a run before checking in. You’re sluggish, unfocused, and go down in flames.

9. If you’re being overplayed and can’t find an answer to get into the match. READ YOUR NOTES. You should have your patterns and plans listed. If you’re losing to a moonball pusher…pull out those notes! Try other options.

10. Gratitude. Your family is behind you 100%. They are always trying to assist you in your life’s quest. They pack your bags, string and grip your racquets, put thousands of miles on the family car to lessons, hitting sessions, off-court workouts, practice matches and tournaments every week! They sacrifice the hundreds of things they could be doing for themselves… They spend their time and thousands of dollars on ….you. Yet, you’re all too often mad at them. You don’t have a chance without the support of your parents. Instead of the “attitude” try gratitude. They are the best allies you’ll ever have.

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Resisting Change

Posted on March 14, 2015 by in The Tennis Parent's Bible

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

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Overlooking the Pain of Change

Remember the old saying? “If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always got.” Players hit common walls in their development. One of those walls is resisting change.

If your child views change, as more painful than losing, they’ll continue in the same losing path. It’s so painful for some to change a flawed grip, stroke or stance; they’d rather accept the pain of losing than deal with changing.

Great things begin to happen when the pain of losing starts to be more powerful than the pain of changing. Once they accept the fact that a change has to be made, they are on their way to the next level.

This is where great parenting comes in. The cycle of change is a three step process:

  1. Step one is accepting change.
  2. Step two is initiating the change. This step is uncomfortable because they have left their old strokes and their new strokes are not fully formed.
  3. Step three is a 4-6 week developmental cycle. During this phase, their new motor programs become personalized and over-ride the old motor programs.

NOTE: In step 2, the pain of being uncomfortable often pulls them back to their old strokes.

SPECIAL NOTE: Placing your youngster into a competitive situation before the three phases are complete may destroy their new motor program and the old strokes will surely return.

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The Mental Components of Tennis

Posted on March 12, 2015 by in New Zealand Summit YouTubes, The Tennis Parent's Bible

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Secret to Maximizing Potential

Posted on March 11, 2015 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential, The Tennis Parent's Bible

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Ten Essential Skills to Maximizing Potential

In this decade, the standard in which every industry performs is doubling and tripling annually. The world of competitive sports is no different. The game’s standards are constantly rising. How does this affect the parent’s role? Due to the increasing numbers of competitors, parents are forced to become more involved in their child’s development. Even in a one-court shot gun shack tennis club in Russia, the competition is training more efficiently. The competition is bigger, faster, stronger and smarter than ever.

FUN FACT: Let’s look at the evolution of the average service speed of some of the #1 player on the ATP pro tour. In 1980: Connors served 84 mph; 1990: Becker served at 112 mph; 2000: Sampras served 128 mph; 2010: ATP professionals often hit the 140 mph range. Andy Roddick holds the current record with a 155 mph delivery! So, what’s the actual service speed your little “Joey” will need to serve on tour in the year 2020… 160 mph plus. That’s evolution baby.

The evolution of your child’s progress is a direct link to their new found training methods. Progress is not made while staying in one’s comfort zone. I suggest asking your youngster to step outside of their comfort zone as they enter into the learning zone. This is where advances actually take place. The Tennis Parent’s Bible’s has identified ten essential steps to accelerate your child’s performance. The following post addresses 3 out of 10 essential steps:

Brain Types and Body Types

Hopefully, you’ve taken some time to visit Braintypes.com and familiarize yourself with how you and your child are wired. Different brain types certainly excel at the physical sides of the game, while some types handle pressure and evaluate tendencies better. Tennis experts agree that a combination of motor skills, mental skills and emotional skills are required at the higher levels. Understanding your child’s preferences will assist you in building their weakest link. Other wonderful benefits of understanding brain types include: disagreement resolution, relationship building, academics and vocation.

Organize a Quarterly Schedule

Purchase a weekly planner and structure in the different areas of development. This includes tournaments, off-court gym, cardio work, hitters, lessons, practice sets, and video analysis to review game days

Nurture All Four Sides of a Complete Player

  1. Primary and Secondary Stroke Skills
    The four different forehands, four different backhands, three different serves and four different volleys need to be developed. Players possessing keen primary strokes and non-existent secondary strokes are usually come in second in a field of two. Your child’s game needs depth to go deep into the draw.
  2. Shot and Pattern Selection Skills
    Independently place your child in an offense, neutral or defensive position. Drill the movement and typical shot selections of that position. Secondly, assist your youngster in designing their proactive patterns. That is their serve patterns, return patterns, rally patterns and net rushing patterns.
  3. Movement and Fitness Skills
    Anticipatory speed is just as important as foot speed. A typical movement drill requires the coach to explain the sequence. The coach says, “Ok, forehand approach shot, forehand volley, backhand volley, overhead, let’s do it!”  I recommend training brain speed as well. So, I would say “Get to the net, I’ll give you 4-6 shots”. I would randomly mix in approach shots, swing volley approach shots, traditional volleys, half volleys and overheads.  Now, multitasking begins. In essence, practicing in the manner in which their expected to perform.
  4. Focus and Emotional Skills
    Emotions come into play during live ball, not drills. We call it dress rehearsal/stress rehearsal. In the session, start sets half way through and asks your child to close it out with role playing.

Here are a few valuable lessons to handle in simulated live ball drills:

  • If your child has trouble with cheaters, every ball your child hits on the line, the opponent gets to call it out. This rehearses emotional control, as well as the art of winning while keeping the balls away from the opponent’s lines.
  •  If your child has trouble closing out a lead; ask them to only focus on sticking to the exact game plan that got them the lead. A common focus flaw is getting bored with an easy set, then going for low percentage, exotic shots.
  • Another typical focus flaw is shifting from playing “to win” (AKA: Attacking) to simply pushing or “playing not to lose.” Many intermediate players get a lead against a top seed and then begin to push. Essentially hoping the top player will choke to them, and hand them the trophy. Guess what, top players didn’t reach the top by choking away matches to lesser players!
  •  If your child hates to play moonball/pushers, hire a college player to role play and be a pusher for the session. Ask your child to rehearse the side door/short angle pattern, the moonball approach shot to swing volley pattern and their drop shot to pass and lob patterns in actual dress rehearsals. I estimate it takes 100 hours of specific pattern rehearsals to perfect the skills needed to beat a top pusher.

 

 

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Common Tennis Parent Personalities

Posted on March 10, 2015 by in New Zealand Summit YouTubes

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Only Playing Up Matches?

Posted on March 9, 2015 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential, Primary and Secondary Strokes, The Tennis Parent's Bible

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Should my child only play up matches?

Tennis skills must be practiced on the practice court and during practice matches. If your child is expected to win every practice match, they will most likely not practice new tennis skills for fear of losing the practice match.  Putting too much stress on winning a practice match can be very destructive in the development of  a high performance player.

Most junior tennis players and their parents fall into the trap of ONLY seeking “up” matches. Up matches or playing someone better is a terrific way for your child to rehearse their A game plan. It can provide a major confidence boost to hold your own or even take a set from a higher level player. It’s a prominent way to get pushed and stretched to the limit.

Two Pitfalls of ONLY Playing Up Matches:

  1. Your child will lose most of the time and that isn’t always the best way to motivate some brain types.
  2. Your child’s practice match victories may be a false victories! A false victory is achieved when the higher level opponent isn’t trying to win, but is using your child as a sparring partner to rehearse his or her B or C game plans, secondary strokes or patterns. I often ask my players to play lesser players and focus on only hitting slice backhands. They are not trying to win at all.

FUN FACT: Alexa Glatch was a great Southern California junior player. She went on to play on the WTA tours and played on the U.S. Federation Cup squad. All through her junior career we scheduled sparring matches. She would be absolutely okay with losing most of her practice matches, as she rehearsed her weaker proactive patterns or her secondary strokes that she didn’t quite own. Yet in tournament junior match play, she would bring her A game plan and beat most top juniors. Essentially giving her practice match opponents fits.

I suggest asking your child to spend an equal amount of time playing weaker players. This will assist in the development of their B and C game plans. We know that players need to master different styles of play in order to be a contender at the national level. Juniors, quite honestly, won’t even try to develop their B and C game in an up practice match. (They don’t want to lose at a faster rate. Can you blame them?) If they won’t rehearse those skills in an up practice match …and they do not want to play practice sets against weaker opponents…when will the skills be developed and rehearsed?

The interesting question is: Why won’t your child play players they speculate are worse? Usually it is a genuine fear of an ego whipping.

SPECIAL NOTE: Players that won’t play down practice matches can often blame their parent’s fragile ego. Uneducated parents unknowingly sabotage their child’s growth by not allowing them to play sets versus different styles and levels of opponents. Consider paying a college player or great adult club player to play practice matches?

At our workshops, we structure practice sets against different styles of opponents, not just different levels. If your child has issues beating a Moonball/Pusher… guess what we focus on? You guessed it, the tools required to beat a Moonball/Pusher! Also, we gladly assist players in finding a weekly up match as long as they agree to play a down match as well.

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Whose Tennis Dream Is It?

Posted on March 8, 2015 by in The Tennis Parent's Bible

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Whose tennis dream is it?

Question: My husband wants it more than my son. Can you talk to him?

A few days after Kathy called me with her concerns, I noticed her husband Steve in the club’s gym riding the life cycle. I said, “Steve, can we talk about Jake’s tennis?”

“Kathy called you, didn’t she?”

“Yes”, I said.

He wiped the sweat off his brow and said. “Can I meet you in the lounge in a few minutes?”

Sure, I said. I put away my tennis gear and Steve was waiting for me in the corner booth with two iced teas.

“She’s upset by the way I push Jake. I know I ride him pretty damn good, but he’s got a real shot.”

“Steve, I agree, but what’s fueling you to push him so hard?”

Steve said, “What do you mean?”

I said, “What’s the spark that lit this tennis flame? Why is it such a life mission for you to see Jake at the top?”

Steve reaches over, shakes down two sweet-n-lows and looks down.

As a coach, I can tell he’s not quite sure how deep he’s willing to dig.

I sit in silence, giving him time and space as he drinks down half his tea. Then he says, “I never had a shot. I was good…real good. Man, I was better than the rich kids who were handed everything. Even back then, the kids that were ranked higher than me had one thing I didn’t…parents who were invested. I wasn’t born into this kind of life style. I was raised in Bloomington, Indiana. It wasn’t exactly the hotbed of the tennis world back in the 70’s. If you didn’t play football or basketball you got beat up. Besides that, my folks couldn’t be bothered. My parents weren’t into sports. In fact, they weren’t much into anything I did.

You see, I loved this sport with a passion. So much that I mowed lawns in the summer and shoveled snow in the winter to buy rackets, strings, and tennis shoes. I paid my own way into any tournament I could get to. At Christmas I would ask for tennis clothes or tennis shoes or even for my folks to take me to an out of town tournament.

Hey, do you remember shoe Goo? Man, I had such big holes in the toes of my tennis shoes that I had to re-apply that stuff nightly just so I wouldn’t tear through all my socks. I would play until my toes bled.

These kids now-a-days have it so easy. See, my folks didn’t care. It was all about them. You know how some people are givers and some are takers? Mine were takers. The only thing I remember them giving me consistently was chores!  I remember deciding back when I was a teen that when I have kids I was going to be different. I was going to give them every opportunity that I never got.”

I grabbed my straw, spun the ice, drank a sip and said, “Steve, I’m sorry you didn’t get your shot, I really am. But the fact is most of us didn’t. Maybe that’s what makes guys like you and me better parents and better coaches.” I looked at him and said, “I read once that scars are there to remind us of the past, there not here to destroy the future.”

Steve finished his tea, signaled the waitress for two more and said, “What do you recommend?”

For the next hour or so, Steve and I devised a way for him to share his story with Jake. I thought it was meaningful for Jake to know where is father was coming from. Second, I asked Steve to let Jake share his opinion. Allow him to be the leader. Just listen with an open heart. Third, I explained that Jake’s brain type is ENFP (Extrovert, Intuitive, Feeler and Perceiver). The command and control style of military leadership that Steve grew up with doesn’t work for that type. I asked Steve to let go of some of the control.

SPECIAL NOTE: When Steve was talking so openly about his parents, he didn’t have a lot of positive things to say about their parenting skills, yet he adapted his father’s exact parenting style.

We talked until the club closed about trying more of an inspirational leadership approach versus the drill sergeant approach. Lastly, we agreed that Steve would begin to focus on nurturing Jake’s leadership skills and slowly start to teach himself reliance. Steve agreed that it’s time for Jake to begin to play the game for all the right reasons.

FUN FACT: Two weeks later Kathy called me and said “Thank you so much, I don’t know what you guys talked about but something clicked.” Steve and Jake have a better appreciation for each other. They seem to have the same agenda but now they laugh and joke around much more. She said that Jake is actually scheduling his own practice sets, stringing his own rackets and going to the gym on his own. Steve is like a different person.

 

 

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SHOULD MY CHILD ONLY PLAY UP MATCHES? 3/7/2015

The following post is from The Tennis Parent’s Bible. Enjoy, Frank

Tennis skills must be practiced on the practice court and during practice matches. If your child is expected to win every practice match, they will most likely not practice new tennis skills for fear of losing the practice match.  Putting too much stress on winning a practice match can be very destructive in the development of  a high performance player.

Most junior tennis players and their parents fall into the trap of ONLY seeking “up” matches. Up matches or playing someone better is a terrific way for your child to rehearse their A game plan. It can provide a major confidence boost to hold your own or even take a set from a higher level player. It’s a prominent way to get pushed and stretched to the limit.

Beware of two pitfalls:

The first is that your child will lose most of the time and that isn’t always the best way to motivate some brain types.

The second, be aware that it may be a false victory! A false victory is achieved when the higher level opponent isn’t trying to win, but is using your child as a sparring partner to rehearse his or her B or C game plans, secondary strokes or patterns. I often ask my players to play lesser players and focus on only hitting slice backhands. They are not trying to win at all.

Alexa Glatch is a great Southern California junior player. She is highly ranked on the WTA tours and has played on the U.S. Federation Cup squad. All through her junior career we scheduled sparring matches. She would be absolutely ok with losing most of the practice matches as she rehearsed her weaker proactive patterns or her secondary strokes that she didn’t quite own. The other top 10 nationally ranked juniors wouldn’t dare rehearse their weaker patterns and plays because they were obsessed with having to win on the practice court.

FUN FACT: Each player that beat Alexa on the practice court played division 1 college ball, while Alexa enjoyed life traveling the world on the on the WTA pro tour.

I suggest asking your child to spend an equal amount of time playing weaker players. This will assist in the development of their B and C game plans. We know that players need to master different styles of play in order to be a contender at the national level.

Juniors, quite honestly, won’t even try to develop their B and C game in an up practice match. (They don’t want to lose at a faster rate. Can you blame them?) If they won’t rehearse those skills in an up practice match …and they do not want to play practice sets against weaker opponents…when will the skills be developed and rehearsed?

The interesting question is: Why won’t your child play players they speculate are worse? Usually it is a genuine fear of an ego whipping.

SPECIAL NOTE: Players that won’t play down practice matches can often blame their parent’s fragile ego. Uneducated parents unknowingly sabotage their child’s growth by not allowing them to play sets versus different styles and levels of opponents.

At our workshops, we structure practice sets against different styles of opponents, not just different levels. If your child has issues beating a Moonball/Pusher… guess what we focus on? You guessed it, the tools required to beat a Moonball/Pusher! Also, we gladly assist players in finding a weekly up match as long as they agree to play a down match as well.

Thanks, Frank Giampaolo

 

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Parental Sabotage

Posted on March 7, 2015 by in Emotional Tennis, New Zealand Summit YouTubes, Parent Player Communication

 

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

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