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 www.itftennis.com/wheelchair www.itftennis.com/wheelchair 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 www.itftennis.com/wheelchair www.itftennis.com/wheelchair 1 Grand Slams Paralympics www.itftennis.com/wheelchair www.itftennis.com/wheelchair 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 www.itftennis.com/wheelchair www.itftennis.com/wheelchair 2 Equipment – the tennis Sports Science wheelchair • New designs • Fitness Testing • Lighter frames • Nutrition • Custom made • Psychology www.itftennis.com/wheelchair www.itftennis.com/wheelchair The serve The inverted backhand www.itftennis.com/wheelchair www.itftennis.com/wheelchair 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 www.itftennis.com/wheelchair www.itftennis.com/wheelchair 4.