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The evolution of tennis strokes, influenced by legendary players like Courier, Williams, and Nadal, has shaped the sport's present and future, offering a glimpse into potential developments in technique.
Personalize coaching based on skill level, age, strengths, and weaknesses. Focus on essential strokes for matches; emphasize serve and return practice. Adapt advice for older players and consider individual strengths.
Selecting the right doubles partner in tennis requires understanding your strengths, finding complementary skills, considering personality, and maintaining good communication and match tempo for success on the court.
In this comprehensive interview, the 52-year-old, Australian-born Marty Smith summons his vast expertise so players, teaching pros and coaches can learn why and how excellent balance is critical for success in tennis.
✔ It was a great honor to be one of the nine coaches, including Nick Bollettieri, Toni Nadal and Patrick
Mouratoglou to be interviewed for Paul Fein’s book The Fein Points of Tennis.
✔ The 23 page interview starts with story behind how my mother ignited my passion for tennis and changed my
life. I was 11 years old and there was a newspaper competition with the prize being a free week at Tony Roche’s
Tennis Camp if you could answer the question: “what is Tony Roche’s middle name?” Roche didn’t like his middle
name and told nobody. My mother, however, came up with the idea to find Roche’s mothers telephone number and ask
herself. How she found the number and convinced Roche’s mother to tell her, I don’t know, but eventually we won
the prize.
✔ I had an amazing experience at the camp and was told by my coach there that if I practiced hard I could
be a good tennis player. I quickly dropped the three other sports I was playing to focus solely on tennis. Two
years later I was a nationally ranked junior and went to play NCAA Division 1 tennis followed by many wonderful
years of coaching at the NYAC. Never underestimate the benefits of a resourceful mother.
