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Why Your Best Player Keeps Losing to a Worse One I've coached tennis for over 30 years now, and there's one thing I see at every level, from mini-tennis right up to national squads: the player with better technique doesn't always win. For a long time I put it down to "competitiveness" or "mental toughness"…
Saving Tennis: A Coach's Perspective of Padel and Tennis...
I run a tennis club that’s done well. Over the years, I’ve coached thousands, built programs from nothing, and watched whole families grow up on these courts and old enough to coach the children of the youngsters i once coached. And let me say this straight up: I don’t hate padel. Actually, I think it’s…
Tennis isn't Dying - Poor Programmes Are.
Why Strong Coaching Still Grows Clubs in a Multi-Sport World I’ve spent years building a tennis programme that actually works. Our club just hit its highest membership since 1989, and I get why people keep saying tennis is “on the way out.” You hear it everywhere. Governing bodies are hyping up padel and pickleball as…