European Coaches Symposium Background
PERFORMANCE • Men, women & quad WHEELCHAIR TENNIS • 2 bounces (if required!!)
Mark Bullock ITF Wheelchair Tennis Manager Martyn Whait GBR Men’s National Wheelchair Tennis Coach
Stuart Wilkinson Performance Coach
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The presenters The players
Martyn Whait Stuart Wilkinson • LTA PCA (Performance • LTA qualified and licensed • Jayant Mistry Former top 10 Camozzi Coach Award) Coach. coach. Doubles Masters and Wimbledon • Great Britain’s Men’s • Centre Manager for Tripletts National Wheelchair Tennis Community Tennis Centre in Doubles Champion Coach from 2000 until today. Middlesex, UK. • Coached at 3 Paralympic • Worked with Paralympic Games in 2000, 2004 & Gold medallist Peter Norfolk • Peter Norfolk Paralympic Gold Medallist 2008. at the 2008 Paralympic • Former coach to former Games. • Marc McCarroll ITF World Ranking 41 British number 1, Jayant • Worked as Jayant Mistry’s Mistry. individual coach for 4 years. • Andy Lapthorne ITF Junior Ranking 9 • 2008 ITF Wheelchair Tennis Development Team
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1 Grand Slams Paralympics
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The evolution Tactics
• Techniques – focus of this presentation • Early 1990s: 2 bounce • Tactics tennis/consistency/perhaps a big • Sports Science forehand • Equipment • Today: 1 bounce tennis/serve & volley/more aggressive play off both sides
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2 Equipment – the tennis Sports Science wheelchair
• New designs • Fitness Testing • Lighter frames • Nutrition • Custom made • Psychology
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The serve The inverted backhand
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3 Coaches Manuals Thank you for your attention
• ITF Manual Marko Polic • French Manual Pierre Fusade • Spanish book David Sanz ‘Everything is possible..if you believe’ Ann Quinn European Coaches Symposium 2008
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