My Tennis Story

First of all, I think  that you are aware by now that I am competent enough (quality tennis player, quality tennis coach)that you can trust my judgements, recommendations, and advices.Besides, I spent 16 years with Lana (6 year old to 182 WTA), and without any  exaggeration there are few people in the world who have this kind of experience

I think you could see from just what I stated so far that there are numerous informations  I posses which can faciliate your way on this difficult path.

I was all in one person so I have first hand experience as:

-father (parent) of a child  on the path to become professional tennis player

- tennis coach

- sparring partner

- conditioning coach

- psychologist

- masseur

- driver

 I will describe numerous experiences and anecdotes I went through during this process.Then, I will tell you where I made mistakes, and advice you what to do that you do not make the same mistakes as I did.I will also state priorities at each stage of player¨s development

This is not a handbook in other words I am not going to tell you how to do it ;but I am going to tell you what, when, why to do it or do not do it.Let me illustrate with a simple example to make it completely clear:I am not going to tell you how to teach a child to hit a forehand, but I am going to tell you that if you want your child to have shot at professional competition he/she has to develop forehand groundstroke into weapon because forehand stroke can be hit more powerful than   backhand  stroke.

Insurance that this is going to be valuable material are my character traits such as: hard working, sincere, honest, eager to learn and excel and 6,000 pages of written matearial which I collected while I coached Lana.