Junior Tennis Development from a Former ATP Tour Coach
Categories
Top Blogs
Featured
Recent Blogs
Blogs To Edit
Are you putting too much emphasis on results? Learn why focusing on performance goals can reduce pressure, build skills, and help your junior tennis player thrive. Discover how to strike the perfect balance between performance and achievement goals to support your child’s growth and love for tennis.
Discover the game-changing lessons from 2024 that every tennis player and parent needs to know. Learn why mental toughness starts with fitness, how to build resilience through hard work, and why embracing nerves is the key to success on the court.
This blog reveals the fastest, most efficient way to improve your UTR dramatically! Nothing we want comes easy though so prepare yourself.
“Does my child need to homeschool to make it to division 1 collegiate tennis?” - Junior Tennis Parent
No.
But the things home school programs offer must be done some how and this is where a lot of after school programs fail.
The biggest difference between the best junior tennis players and everyone else is how well structured their development was. No child made it to the top by random chance. By the age of 12-14, their development started to be planned for success. And the development plan for those lagging behind was consistently missing four things.
“A jack of all trades, master of none.”
If a player works on too many things at once, they’ll be mediocre at everything, great at nothing. It’s better to master the most important things first, then start adding in everything else later/
Theres are the 5 most important things a junior player should work on once they have the basic skills down:
Junior tennis ranking systems for people to be obsessed with have existed for decades. UTR is just another system with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Many junior tennis parents treat UTR like a report card, but this obsession can actually hurt a player's development. Tennis progress isn’t linear, and true improvement takes time. In this article, we break down why UTR shouldn’t be the main focus and what parents should prioritize instead to help their child succeed in high-performance tennis and college recruiting.