An intimate look at the techniques and relationships of high school coaches with their school, players, and parents. Along with very practical advice, there are anecdotes to inform great decision-making for you and your high school team. Coaches, athletic directors, parents, and even players will want to read this to navigate high school tennis and to share with others. Learn drills and tips to become a great tennis coach or player, and accompany the ranks of others who join the USTA, USPTA, and PTR.

Coaching Mastery : The ULTIMATE "Blueprint" for Tennis Coaches, Tennis Parents, and Tennis-teaching Professionals. Learn how to: Attract tennis players to your program, develop sustainable tennis programs, and build perennial championship teams and successful individuals. Following the world-wide embrace of David W. Smith's book, TENNIS MASTERY, David now brings his "Advanced Foundation" to the art of coaching and teaching tennis. For the High School, Club or Team Coach, from the highly experienced to the uninitiated, Coaching Mastery is a PROVEN "blueprint" to attracting players and designing highly effective and efficient tennis practices. For the Tennis Parent: Regardless of your tennis experience, Coaching Mastery will provide a clear and proven method to make sure you are providing your child the right progression and patterns of play to insure they will reach their personal best...and do it in a way that makes it fun for both parent and child! For the Tennis-teaching Professional: Coaching Mastery provides a lifetime of successful tennis club programming and teaching experience, a resource to enhance any teaching professional's teaching program. Coaching Mastery provides over 70 effective drills and dozens of ideas that allow any coach or teacher to get the most out of their tennis opportunities. In addition, Coaching Mastery provides the "Advanced Foundation" principles that define every shot and every stroke in the sport.

Realizing your physical, mental, & emotional potential.

The world’s best tennis drill book returns—bigger, better, and more comprehensive than ever. Building on the strengths of the popular first edition, this second edition of The Tennis Drill Book includes more drills, expert instruction, advice, and analysis for today’s players and coaches. The Tennis Drill Book is your complete collection of drills, games, and tips for improving stroke technique, match strategy, and everything in between. Inside you will find • progressive technique drills for mastering every stroke and shot combination; • tactics drills for winning with aggressive or defensive strategies in every game situation; • mental training drills for staying focused when the pressure is on; • warm-up, cool-down, and conditioning drills for increasing speed, agility, and endurance; and • game-based drills that simulate singles and doubles match play. With insights, recommendations, and performance tips from teaching pro and former WTA player Tina Hoskins-Burney and veteran coach Lex Carrington (coach to Vera Zvonareva), The Tennis Drill Book is an essential reference that belongs in every tennis library.

Have you reflected on a past season and thought 'I wish I had seen that coming?' This books solves that, it's chock full of questions to help you think ahead, solving problems before they happen. Clarify your vision for your team. Gain valuable skills not often taught in other tennis books. Create a better environment around you! Start anywhere in this workbook on any page you think applies to your right now, because it's a place to think through and solve problems of coaching high school tennis. The companion to The Art of Coaching High School Tennis and the basis for the USA High School Coaching Certification Level 1. Certification program coming soon! The second edition of The Art of Coaching High School Tennis will be published in September 2015. Bill is available to speak to coaches! Book him today.

The 3rd edition Is leaner and meaner updated for 2021. The first 60 reviews are for the first two editions. Thank you to all who took the time to write a review. This edition is condensed into a smaller space to use less paper, but it adds 20% more content. If you reach out to me [email protected], I will send you the outline for you to keep alongside, as a guide. Now includes diagrams of my favorite games. Also, there are some spaces for you to take some notes provided for you to further engage learning. Are you a new coach and want to get off to the best possible start coaching your team? Are you a coach pressed into service by the school? Have you been coaching tennis, but your team is stuck in a rut? Are you looking for expert coaching to take your team to the next level? You are in the right place. Bill Patton has revised the first edition with a higher level of prose, and 20,000 more words of easily digestible advice for the high school tennis coach. Each of the 88 chapters can be read in the matter of a few minutes. The mostly linear approach starts with making the big decisions, then moves forward into a more detailed planning, skill development and provides resources and thoughts to guide you. There are more games and drill in this edition! We recommend High School Tennis Mastery, Master Your Tennis, The Inner Game of Tennis, The Tennis Drill Book, USTA Complete Guide to Conditioning, The Coach's Workbook to The Art of Coaching High School Tennis, and Visual Training for Tennis.