All Discussions Tagged 'champions' - Tennisopolis : Tennis Social Network2024-03-29T14:05:23Zhttp://tennisopolis.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=champions&feed=yes&xn_auth=noIs the USTA Player Development Program failing?tag:tennisopolis.com,2009-06-20:1869403:Topic:3327372009-06-20T23:39:43.232ZUs Tennis Parentshttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/UsTennisParents
The ultimate goal is to produce Grand Slam winners, you can’t produce them. The USTA high performance program is for a handful of players and it is not supporting the group of our best American players.<br />
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The whole world is training elite tennis athletes and the USTA can not come up with a program that is working. A program that is focusing on our top American junior talents. Junior tennis athletes that don’t have the financial support, don’t have a good national ranking and are in most cases…
The ultimate goal is to produce Grand Slam winners, you can’t produce them. The USTA high performance program is for a handful of players and it is not supporting the group of our best American players.<br />
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The whole world is training elite tennis athletes and the USTA can not come up with a program that is working. A program that is focusing on our top American junior talents. Junior tennis athletes that don’t have the financial support, don’t have a good national ranking and are in most cases never been looked at. There is a big difference between the official USTA ranking and the real performance, check out the USTA ranking and compare it with the tennisrecruiting.net ranking. The USTA ranking just measures points per tournament, however the tennisrecruiting.net measure “the performance strength”. In other words the USTA TOP 10 ranked juniors may not be the best talented players with potential. Continue to read at <a href="http://ustennisparents.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/is-the-usta-tennis-development-program-failing/">http://ustennisparents.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/is-the-usta-tennis-development-program-failing/</a>