As a coach, your success depends on the success of your players. In Coaching Tennis Successfully, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) combines the expertise of winning coaches with the experience of USTA players to serve up a comprehensive guide that ensures your success. They offer specific teaching tips and mentoring concepts for managing a winning tennis program.

An organization known for its teaching prowess, the USTA explains how to instruct players in strokes, footwork, volleys, overheads, and serves. In addition to teaching the basics, this book will assist you in effectively integrating game strategies and tactical concepts into your lessons to facilitate the development of well-skilled, competitive players.

As owner and operator of the highest-attended annual sporting event in the world--the U.S. Open--the USTA knows tennis. And, with access to some of the top names in tennis coaching, the USTA knows coaching. Competitive teams, confident players, and thriving tennis programs all emerge from educated coaches, so get the edge in this one complete guide-Coaching Tennis Successfully.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the governing body for tennis in the United States. The USTA’s membership consists of more than 670,000 individuals and thousands of organizations, including schools, park and recreation departments, community tennis associations, and tennis clubs.

Ron Woods coordinated the development, and wrote selected chapters, of this new edition of Coaching Tennis Successfully. Ron has served the USTA for almost 20 years as director of player development as well as the director of the USTA’s Community Tennis Programs. He was a college tennis coach for 17 years and has been a member of the United States Olympic Coaching Committee and the International Tennis Federation Coaching Commission.TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I - Coaching Foundations
1 - Philosophy
2 - Communication
3 - Motivation

Part II - Planning for Success
4 - Building a Tennis Program
5 - Establishing Season Plans
6 - Planning and Conducting Practices

Part III - Teaching Technique
7 - Stroke Production
8 - Serves and Return of Serves
9 - Groundstrokes and Mid-court Shots
10 - Net Play, Passing Shots, and Lobs

Part IV - Teaching Tactics
11 - Singles Stradegy
12 - Doubles Stradegy

Part V - Coaching Matches
13 - Preparation for Competition
14 - In-Match Coaching
15 - Performance Evaluation

Appendix A: Off-Season Training for Tournament Play
Appendix B: Wellness Regimen for In- and Off-season Training

Features:

• 208 full-color pages
• Paperback
• Author: Ron Woods & USTA
• Copyright 2004