All Articles Tagged 'coach' (8)

Another Wozniacki Coach Goes on Permanent Holiday

According to the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet, Caroline Wozniacki has fired yet another tennis coach, this time for wanting to go on holiday rather than join her for some training in Dubai.

Something is rotten in Denmark and perhaps with northern Europe. If you have looked at the …

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Added by Doug Ingbretsen on February 4, 2014 at 7:00am — No Comments

The Frame

In older times the ball was addressed squarely with the strings.

In modern tennis you approach the ball with the racquet’s frame, the upper edge, starting from below the ball for topspin, the lower edge, starting…

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Added by Oscar Wegner on September 25, 2013 at 12:00am — No Comments

Sharapova splits with Coach

Maria Sharapova has split with coach Thomas Hogstedt and expects to name a new coach in the coming days: http://t.co/tUfDjo5oCM…

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Added by phillip k. on July 12, 2013 at 9:24am — 8 Comments

Straight Talk from the Tennis Coach

I want to thank Danai C Samuriwo from tenniswithD for writing my guest blog today. I met Danai through the tennisopolis social network. Danai is very involved in the tennis world as a tennis teaching pro, club manager, tennis shop owner and a top-level tennis player himself. …

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Added by Sandra on April 19, 2012 at 8:30am — No Comments

Once in the Lifetime Chance

As you can see I have had tremendous drive to succeed as a player and as a tennis coach as well.I still have otherwise I would not educate myself on daily basis.

During the time period I was with that player under 14 whom I brought from number 10 to number one in less than one year I realized that if I want to bring somebody to professional tennis I have to start to teach him/her from very beginning.Why is that? By coaching that player I saw that is almost impossible or impossible to… Continue

Added by Damir Popadic on October 24, 2009 at 3:30am — No Comments

Me as a Tennis Coach

Me as a Tennis Coach

From “Me as a Tennis Player” is obvious that I had tremendous drive to succeed - to become the best that I can be, but unfortunately this was not possible because I did all by myself without being coached by anyone, not to mention quality tennis coach.

In my coaching career has been a little bit better situation.My playing career ended with graduation at WSU.After, that I started to teach recreational players in one tennis club in Germany.As a tennis teacher… Continue

Added by Damir Popadic on October 22, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

Me as a Tennis Player

I come from sport family.Both parents competed in sports (swimming, table tennis).As a young boy, I started to train swimming in a swimming club.One time I did not swim required time, and they let me go.This was the end of my swimming career, and the beginning of my tennis career.I started to play tennis rather late (12 year old).First year I was in the tennis school , but after that I was on my own.At the time, there were not good tennis teachers because tennis knowledge was very limited.Good… Continue

Added by Damir Popadic on October 17, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Rent a Coach/Player hourly !

I'm a professional instructor of this great sport. I have played tennis for almost 6 years and began teaching children in tennis clubs in Brazil. After this, I started to teach adults and elderly. I stopped teaching tennis since I started to travel the world working as a professional model in Asia (China, Philippines, Hong Kong) and Europe (Italy, Milan). I got married 7 months ago with my beautiful and loving wife Janice, who is originally from Hawaii. My wife and I resolved to live in Pearl… Continue

Added by Daniel Rodrigues on August 14, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments