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Page 6 Volume 12 Issue 2 State News Alabama Greetings, Please mark your calendar as Hoover Country Club will host the USPTA Alabama Workshop on Saturday, August 20th. We are in the process of lining up speakers and if there are any particular topics that interest you, please let me know at theos@sta.usta.com. The Alabama Tennis Foundation exists to financially assist junior players. To support the Foundation, USTA Alabama created a license plate. Please encourage players to get their license plate by visiting a DMV, filling out a pre-commitment form for the Alabama Tennis Foundation license plate and paying $50. Each year a person renews his or her tennis plate, that person will pay the $50, but $41 of this is tax-deductible and goes directly to the Foundation to fulfill its purpose. USTA Alabama may be willing to reimburse the $50 pre-registration cost. You can find out more by calling 205-328-3984. Even if you decide not to continue with the plate after the first year, by pre-committing this year you will help the Foundation reach the minimum goal required by the Alabama Revenue Department of 250 BY MAY 1ST so the plate can get on the road! Thank you so much for supporting Alabama Tennis! Spring is just around the corner and those of us with- Arkansas out indoor courts are just starting to get busy again. With the endorsement of the USTA QuickStart is a must do at your facilities. I will be calling for a teleconference in March to discuss the use of it in our clubs. Congratulations to Darrel Snively for his induction into the Arkansas Tennis Hall of Fame. Darrel taught in Arkansas for over 25 years and produced some of the best players this state has ever seen. His dedication to tennis grows daily and no one, I mean no one can outtalk him when it comes to the game. He travels the world looking for answers in this remarkable game and has done all of this despite having a massive stroke fifteen years ago. As a contribution to the USPTA he has mentored more pros, including myself, than any pro that I know. I saw many pros at the Morgan Keegan tennis championships but very few attended the conference. This is a very good way to get education which is a three hour drive from anywhere in the state. Mark it on your calendar and make it a priority to attend. Congratulations to those who did attend because there were some fantastic speakers and some great fellowship. The tennis wasn’t bad either. Thank you to the USPTA pros that participated in our Sum- Georgia mer Camp Round Table discussion at Dunwoody Country Club. We had a record turnout and I trust that you came away with several new ideas to augment your summer programming. I also want to thank our national sponsor, Linda Ryan with Head Racquets, as well as Rick Davison and Mark Suiter from USTA for providing tips to integrate 10 and under tennis into their camps. Our next event is a USPTA Specialty Course presented by Dr. Dave Porter, March 19th at Ansley Country Club in Atlanta. Dr. Porter is a past president of USPTA National and he continues to play and have an active role with USPTA as the Chairperson of our Player Development Council. Dr. Porter is currently the Head Men’s and Women’s Coach at Brigham Young University - Hawaii. We look forward to hosting him in the next few weeks. What else is new for USPTA Georgia this year? The USPTA Georgia Chapter is pleased to announce the launching of our website, wwwusptaga.com. Here you will be able to check out our upcoming events, certification schedule, accessing our quarterly newsletter and national USPTA job board. You can also register your Tennis Across America and Lessons for Life events, and find player development tips for your students. Also for the first time, the Board will host a Summer Workshop in addition to the annual Winter Workshop. We are tentatively scheduled for a weekend at Reynolds Plantation August 13 – 14th. Please stay tuned for more details. I trust that this message finds that all of you are well and anticipating the spring season. I look forward to seeing you at our next Specialty Course. USPTA KY President’s Report. Spring is quickly ap- Kentucky proaching, and we’re already off to a great start to 2011! If you haven’t had a chance to get down to the USPTA Winter Southern convention in Memphis, you’ve got to check it out. The night we arrived, we had a nice buffet dinner, where we were seated at a table next to Melanie Oudin’s team. Some of the other attendees’ tables were greeted by Fernando Verdasco. Then, we had fantastic box seats to watch Roddick vs. Tipsarevic. We finished the evening watching Roddick/Ryan Harrison vs. Nestor/Mirnyi in smaller stands, where we were right on top of the action! On Friday, Ken’s Specialty course was so good that Melanie Oudin showed up to check it out for a little while. We saw great tennis, ate good food, heard instructive and engaging presentations, networked, received great giveaways, and returned home with many ideas to improve what we’re doing on and off the court. We only had three pros there from Kentucky (over 60 pros attended), but we hope to see more at the Southern convention in Baton Rouge in May. Remember to join our facebook page (USPTA Kentucky Chapter) and register your Tennis Across America events and Lessons for Life! Louisiana Contact info for all officers at www.usptasouthern.com/contact.php Louisiana is warming up and league play is in full swing! Players are hitting the lesson courts getting ready for league matches and tournament play. Juniors are taking to the new QuickStart format and having a blast! Did anyone see the QuickStart lines on the court during the Sampras/Agassi and McEnroe/Lendl exhibition at Madison Square Garden in New York? We are showcasing the 36 foot courts and equipment at our USTA National Level II $15,000 Bocage Senior Invitational Tournament April 13-17 in a fun event on Friday night during the tournament with prizes! Click the link to the tournament to see the event: http://tennislink.usta.com/Tournaments/TournamentHome/Tournament.aspx?T=96099 This is a great way to get the kids and parents, parents and pros together with some hands on fun with the Quickstart format. Try doing this with a mixer or other fun event at your club! Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and The Bocage Racquet Club are honored to host this year’s USPTA Southern Division Convention May 12-15! This is going to be a great time for all Pros, spouses and guests! As they say …… Come Pass a Good Time and Laissez les Bon Temps Roulez! We look forward to seeing you here! Mississippi The 2011 USPTA Southern Winter Convention in Memphis was a tremendous success. I would like to thank these southern board for putting on a terrific convention. One of the ways to increase your job security, make more money, and improve your teaching is to attend USPTA conventions and workshops. I cannot express how important it is to set yourself apart and separate from the “herd”. The next convention is the USPTA Southern convention at Bocage in Baton Rouge in May. We will be offering some new exciting events for our Mississippi professionals to participate in. USTA has offered to combine forces with us this year and have our state workshop in conjunction with their annual meeting. This exciting partnership will allow us to have a stronger workshop with even more educational opportunities. I would like to encourage everyone to attend the Southern convention. One other item we need assistance with is using your free professional webpage that USPTA provides. Please take a moment and visit the website and update your profile. The state with the highest percentage of personal webpages will get bonus points in our state competitions. Last but not least, our newsletter will be sent out electronically in 2011. This will allow us to make the newsletter much more robust and send out more newsletters than last year. You will find our newsletter on the USTA MS website and the USPTA southern website. N. Carolina We had a great 2011 NC workshop in Pinehurst with almost 70 pros taking advantage of presentations, vendors, networking opportunities and Round Table discussions. If you weren’t able to attend, we hope that you will put it on your calendar for next year and get involved in our great state workshop. With almost 400 pros in our state we hope to get more of you involved next year! We encourage everyone to join our facebook page (“USPTA North Carolina”) to stay connected and get the most out of your membership. If you have any ideas you would like to share, or things that have worked well for you, let us know! We want to include it in our eblast, newsletters or facebook pages. I hope that you are ready for a busy spring and I look forward to seeing you in Louisiana May 12-15. S. Carolina Tennessee I’ve been quite busy with a new born. Please look for SC updates via eblast over the next few weeks. Spring is in full swing and everyone is busy on the courts in Tennessee with spring programming, events and activities. Tennessee hosted three local qualifying High Performance 10 & under Junior Tennis Camps. Neal Stapp hosted the East Tennessee Camp at Cherokee Country Club with camp coordinator Joey Hall, Steve Brooks, Jim Fredrick and Tyler Pullen serving as coaches. The Middle Tennessee Camp in Nashville was hosted by Blain Smith at Centennial Sportsplex and staffed by Devin Crotzer, Keith Herrietha and state camp coordinator Bill Riddle. The West Tennessee camp in Memphis was hosted and directed by MJ Garnett at Windyke Country Club with Tony Cherone and Radu Dina serving as staff coaches. Players were selected from each of the three local camps to represent the state at the State Camp held on March 13 at Hadley Park. Mark your calendars for these upcoming events in Tennessee. • April 29, USPTA Pros will offer a free tennis carnival for kids and adults at the Vanderbilt University Tennis Center in conjunction with the 38th annual Music City Tennis Invitational. The event will feature a HEAD demo day and is open to the public. • The Tennessee Summer Workshop will be hosted by Bluegrass Yacht & Country Club on July 15-16 in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Extra activities include a golf tournament, tennis pro-am, pool party and skeet shooting trip for attendees. For more information contact Bill Riddle at TENNISUN@aol.com
Standard Page 7 DRILL DETAILS type: Singles time & Players: 20 min. [2, 8] Prepared by: InterTennis Coach DRILL DESCRIPTION & GOALS The goal of this drill is to practice: 1. Hitting on the move 2. Hit-and-recovery footwork 3. Accurate passing shots type: Singles time & Players: 15 min. [1, 4] Prepared by: InterTennis Coach Games Galore Category: Groundstrokes, Passing Level: Intermediate, Advanced tennis organization: InterTennis DRILL ORGANIZATION Players line up in one line at the center of the deuce court. Player 1 tries to hit the coach’s feed for a winner past player 4. Player 1 must hit half court only no lobbing allowed. If the net player 4 touches the ball they must sprint to right side of the tennis court while player 1 sprints to the ad court and tries to hit another passing shot on that side. If the net player touches that ball they recover back to other side and defend against a new player in line. This is a fast cardio style drill!!! Category: Other Level: Intermediate tennis organization: InterTennis Passing Shot DRILL KEY POINTS 1. Make sure players do not play out the point. As soon as the net player touches the ball both players must sprint to other side and attempt the drill again. NO lobbing. This is for safety and protects the coach and net player. DRILL DETAILS DRILL DESCRIPTION & GOALS This game is called PAC-MAN. It is designed for summer camps and large groups of kids. It is just like the video game! You designate the majority of the kids to be Pac-Men then you pick 3 kids to be the “Ghosts”. The 3 Ghosts chase the other kids trying to tag them. For safety let the 3 Ghosts use a foam ball to tag the other kids with. The catch is that the Pac-Men must stay on a tennis line at all times. You can create additional lines as shown to help with larger groups. DRILL KEY POINTS 1. Safety is most important. Play this game the first few times only allowing the kids to walk 2. The net is also a line. You can go from one side of the court to the other by holding onto the net 3. Teach the kids to communicate and work together to avoid the Ghosts! 4. If you have large groups you can use multiple courts in a row to expand the game Created using the iTennisSystem - www.interTennis.com Pac Man
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