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Alaa Ragab
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Chapter 3
The Key to Coaching Teenagers

Group lessons - 90 to 120 minutes - five times per week for Top Juniors :

Tennis training consists of approximately 10% instruction and 90% repetition. Repetition of strokes and playing patterns is necessary to make them subconscious and automatic. In a typical tennis match, a player has no time to think about technique or analyze the situation in the 1.5 seconds it takes for the ball to come to them from the other side.

And even if players attempt to think about technique, they will devote most of their brain processing power to this thought process and less processing power will available for extremely complex and fast calculations such as ball speed, timing, and body coordination. Devoting too much time to thinking about technique or strategy will, of course, result in MORE errors, not less. As the main purpose of tennis training is to make all strokes and most playing patterns automatic, young players need to repeat the strokes and patterns thousands of times.

Instruction is no longer needed after the player has learned the fundamental information about the strokes and playing patterns (only a few reminders here and there); that's where the group lessons with lots of drills come in. Group lessons provide players with competitiveness and fun, and they are much more cost effective. Group situations allow the coach to create new and interesting drills while still focusing on repetition. Players also show more effort when they compare themselves with each other and compete in a group. This also allows players of the same level to push each other to the limit and improve much faster than they would in the non-competitive environment of private lessons.

Now you must know the different between the Private lessons and the Group lessons that both of them are very important for top juniors .

Coach / Hesham Elraghy
Academy Manager