Message from Coach Kim Grant

This Website is customized for you. We will keep track on your progress and your goals. We will share knowledge  information and update your status and make sure you can become the best of tennis player of your ability. We will become your partner in improving your tennis. Remember we can only help you as much as you let us and you have to try your best to keep to your assignments and try really hard to follow the coaches advice. Let's do this!

Good Luck and thank you for letting us help you.
Kim Grant Tennis Academy Team 
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Be The Exception!

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Age: 13 years old 
Ball Color: Yellow Ball 
​ Birth Date: 24th June 2006

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Physical Fitness

• ​​​Complex coordination & movement 
• Linear/multi-directional speed 
• Strength
• Endurance 
• Power
• Flexibility 
• Core & Shoulder Stability 
• Injury Prevention & Fitness Testing 
• Rest & Recovery ​
• Testing & tracking 

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Goals for Player
Short Term Goal

•  Have a sound  technical foundation

•  Develop a game style for the future
• Develop Forehand and Serve Weapon
• Playing 80% forehands from the ad court 
• ​Develop a good USTA ranking to play sectionals, zones and nationals 
• Little Mo, Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl 2019 (while in Middle School)

Mid Term Goal 

• Play Excellence Tournaments 
• Get a National Ranking
  
• UTR Ranking 

Long Term Goal 

• Weapons-Develop 120 mph serve 
• Game style 
• Play Orange Bowl and other national tournaments by the age of 16 years old (this when it counts for College Scholarships)

​​​Dream

• ​Play Junior ITF's and Junior Grand Slams by the age of 16 and 18years old
• Play Grand Slams
• Get a world ranking, maybe ranked top 150 WTA
• Go to a top University- Stanford University, Harvard 

Practice and Deadlines
example: 
Forehand- close the racket face on the backswing 
Date-2 weeks- 1 April 2019
Get better at Reading the opponents 
Better to anticipate 

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Tactical & Game/Match Play 

• Player analysis & tracking match play 
• Knowledge of the game styles 
• Tactics against different game styles
• Scouting opponents 

Equipment 

Racket

• Racket company
• Weight
• Balance

Strings

• Tention
• Crosses 
• Mains
• Pre-stretch 

Shoes

Coaches Corner
Date:  June 2019
Coach: Kim Grant 

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Touraments 

• Money Tournaments (Remain amateur status, do not take any prize money)
• High School Tennis 
• ​Team Tennis
• ITF JR
• ITF Pro Circuit (Remain amateur status, do not take any prize money)
• UTR Tournaments 
• USTA JR Tournaments 
• USTA Pro Circuit (Remain amateur status, do not take any prize money)
• USTA Adult Tournaments 
• Collegiate-ETA
• Davis Cup /Federation Cup
• Olympics 
• Junior Olympics 
• Grand Slams 
• ​Junior Grand Slams 

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Technical 

• Weapon development (serve and one other)
• Apporopreate power and racket head speed on all shots
• Adaptation of technique for the different surfaces 
• Power and variation on baseline even under pressure 
• Sound footwork and recovery on all strokes 

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Mental & Emotional 

• Goal setting skills 
• Increase confidence 
• Routines 
• Concentration
• Relaxation skills 
• Resilience/grit 
• Sound decision-making skills 

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Type of Coaching & Program

• High Performance coaches with experience of post-puberty issues
• Established Developement Paln with 2-3 cycle periodized year moving towards increased competition levels 
  
• At age 14, max of 60 matches per year
• AT age 16+ max of 90 matches per year 
• Unlimted practice mathces 
  

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Reports from Kim Grant Tennis Academy 

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Images 

Images of Top Players 

Forehand Set Step-Roger Federer 

Serve

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Video Action 

Training Plan- Part One 

• Feel 
• Accuracy (Target Training)
• Target (Visualizing the shape, depth, spin and speed of the ball)
• Court Positioning and Balance 
• Consistancy 
• Anticipatoin 
• Creating Instinct
• Creating an awareness of the opponents side of the net, understanding the physical positioning and body balance, 
• The opponents emotional up's and downs
• Self Talk- when to pump up and when to stay emotionally neutral depending on the score or the emotional and phyiscal conditon of the opponent

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Game Development 

• Playing the Formula
• Know what to do when to do it
• Know when to play what (Offense, Defense and Neutral)
• Positional Pressure
• ​Tempo of the match
• Know how to Start, compete and to close a match
• ​How to come back from a losing set or a losing strategy
• Playing the score
• Know 3 pattern play
• Play 80% Forehnads-

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Lesson Plan

• Feeding (Targeting Training)
• Line Ball 
• Serve and Return