Week 46 - Kuwait F3 - Meshref ($15,000) (hard)

M_Turner04 · Social player

RE: Week 46 - Kuwait F3 - Meshref ($15,000) (hard)

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

pretty exciting time on the men's side with Andy, Dan and James back, Kyle de-tonsiled, and Jack, Aidan and George L climbing the ranks. Jay and Liam have plateaued but can't have everything I guess

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

M_Turner04 wrote:
What's the LTA Player/Coach programme? Thanks.

From Oct. 2107:

Tennis has never been an easy career choice, but a groundbreaking scheme providing rising stars with invaluable playing time and top level coaching qualifications could usher in an exciting new era for the sport.

see: https://www.tass.gov.uk/2017/05/05/tennis-programme-combines/

Olivia Nicholls, and now Jonathan Binding, are two successes from the programme.

I don't know anything more, really, but it makes some sense to me...

indiana · Tennis legend

It's so futuristic

Oakland2002 · All-time great

I think it offers a different choice, speaking to compatriots of Johnnies at Durham he was just too good when compared to other students, Mark Whitehouse would have been exactly the same at Imperial. I hope they both now enjoy and make some progress on the futures tour, but really any tennis specific work they were doing to improve as player in College was independent.

This contrasts massively with the way Emily Arb at Stanford, Paul Jubb at South Carolina, Eden Richardson at LSU, Olivia and Nell at Texas Tech and most of those playing power conference tennis in the US will be constantly challenged by their team mates, Eden and Paul seized opportunities this year to push themselves into the no 1 slots but with new recruits will be constantly pushed to stay there and improve.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

This programme, though, is not at all the same as following a tennis programme/scholarship at GB uni, and the pros and cons of that.
So it doesn't apply to Mark Whitehouse or the US college players. (Can't believe Mark with a degree and a masters from imperial wants to be a coach when he's 35)
It's very targeted at those who wish to make a career as a coach but try out their hand as a pro player as well.
The balance of hours that you commit to both seems quite sensible and you can see that it has an appeal both to certain players and the LTA who are looking at tennis as whole.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 19th of November 2018 12:59:13 PM

Priesty · Challenger level

Coup Droit wrote:
M_Turner04 wrote:
What's the LTA Player/Coach programme? Thanks.
From Oct. 2107:
Tennis has never been an easy career choice, but a groundbreaking scheme providing rising stars with invaluable playing time and top level coaching qualifications could usher in an exciting new era for the sport.
see: https://www.tass.gov.uk/2017/05/05/tennis-programme-combines/
Olivia Nicholls, and now Jonathan Binding, are two successes from the programme.
I don't know anything more, really, but it makes some sense to me...

I agree Indy, 89 years is a long time to wait wink

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Took me a while....couldn't even see it....:)
Might just leave it for posterity...

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Coup Droit wrote:
This programme, though, is not at all the same as following a tennis programme/scholarship at GB uni, and the pros and cons of that.
So it doesn't apply to Mark Whitehouse or the US college players. (Can't believe Mark with a degree and a masters from imperial wants to be a coach when he's 35)
It's very targeted at those who wish to make a career as a coach but try out their hand as a pro player as well.
The balance of hours that you commit to both seems quite sensible and you can see that it has an appeal both to certain players and the LTA who are looking at tennis as whole.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 19th of November 2018 12:59:13 PM

I dont know whether thats quite true, that it is not applicable to the US College players, agreed it offers a formal coaching qualification and those I have name checked are in very high quality deep programmes but many of those in US Colleges are doing sports science or psychology with a view to progressing into coaching some at a performance level, indeed a couple each year pick up voluntary college coaching roles initially as a first step in the US. It is worth having a look at the career of Ben Dunbar at New Mexico, actually being in an elite coaching programme would be part of the informal curriculum that defines the initial sets of coaching careers in most sports.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The TASS programme has nothing to do with uni. Anyone can do it. Binding only entered after he graduated. So that's what I mean in that it's not comparable to other uni or college players whatever degree they do. It's applicable to everyone.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

I understand the confusion which arises in that both Olivia and Johnny have done it after completing British University degrees in er sports science.

There are obvious playing criteria so can anyone do it? The ideal fit is the post graduate collegiate tennis player

I think it is still very applicable to the US College players should they wish to do it, indeed as stated they may well be in a better position to make more of it and avoid working for nothing in the US College system if they dont plan to stay there long term. Of course those in the best programmes there will probably set their targets a little higher initially ref Cam.