Help your Tennis Playing Child to find a suitable Tennis Coach

Depending on the age, experience and ambitions of your tennis playing child it could either be you or your child leading the process. Maybe the beneath questions will serve as inspiration to what could be covered in the process of finding a Tennis Coach who is a good match for your child. 

Initial questions:

• What do you think about my tennis?
• What do you think I can reach in tennis?
• How can you help me improve?
• What are your steps?

If the Coach is not able to answer these questions, it’s difficult to see how the relationship can work. If the Coach on the other hand is able to answer the questions you can go on asking him:

Further questioning

• What do you expect of me?
• How much time do you envision me being on the court?
• Off Court?
• What would you start out by focusing on?
• When do you believe I have a realistic chance of reaching the goals set up?

You need to get a picture of what you can expect if you hire a coach. If you can follow the coach’s ideas and his arguments, then it might be a good fit. Often Coaches and Players come together without having a talk like the above, which I think is unprofessional. Further my experience is that the players that I have coached are also much better able to follow the ideas that I put forward if I have told them what I’m looking for, how we can reach the goals and what I expect of the player.

(Inspired by the podcast episode #74: “Managing a Top 100 Player” w. Dirk Hordorff on The Adam Blicher Show — Dissecting High Performance in Tennis)

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