Like you, tennis is in my blood. My Dad got me started playing at age six, but I didn't get the 'bug' until I was 13. That's very late to start dreaming of playing professional tennis, but, nevertheless, I dug in wholeheartedly. 
With my Dad in 2008 at an ATP event. _____________________________ Like most junior players, I had my tennis idols, chief among them being Ivan Lendl, who was number one in the world and taking the game of tennis to a new level of pace and fitness. It was his game that I first started to study, and this was then followed by every other 'great' since. |
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____________________________ I played #1 for my high school, but my game wasn't developed enough to pursue my dream. I headed to Michigan State University and was asked to try out for the team by the coach, but I dropped out of college and headed out to play what was then called the Satellites, the lower rung of the climb to the ATP Tour. The wins didn't come and the money ran out. My frustration was that I couldn't seem to get the complete coaching knowledge that I needed to generate world-class strokes, which I now define as efficient, explosive, and adaptable. Thus my quest to understand what commonalities were occurring in the games' of the greatest players past and present continued. My game continues to develop and improve every year as I continue to work at integrating my understandings in my own game. I still have a few remaining tennis dreams. It is my pleasure to share what I know and to save others the years of frustration, time, money and trial and error that I have put myself through. |
