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Celebrating diversity
 Celebrating diversity across continents: Minnesota to Nigeriaby Tom Ford and Mike Vidmar, USPTA USPTA Tennis Professional Abdul Idi, certified in 1993, has worked as a full-time tennis professional at Reed-Sweatt Family Tennis Center in Minneapolis since 1998. A native of Nigeria, Idi grew up in the small town of Wukari, which is in the state of Taraba in northern Nigeria. He was a soccer, badminton, and pingpong player as a kid - that is until the local tennis coach, Dauda Mamman, who is now director of sports for Taraba, convinced Idi to try tennis at age 13. There were only two courts in Wukari, but the government subsidized sports coaches. more
Ask the professor
 The evidence is in: Exercise your brain for mental fitnessQuestion: I recently was fascinated to read how playing tennis affects the brain. To me, this is yet another incredible reason to get people to our facilities and on our tennis courts. Would you please go into more detail? Answer: I, too, have been fascinated by what the scientific community is discovering about the effects of exercise, interval training, and, in some specific cases, tennis, on the brain. This column will concern itself with exercise in general and will then introduce some tennis-specific research, while my next column will deal solely with research observations on why tennis more |
Add Little Tennis and QuickStart to junior events for best fit
USPTA Little Tennis® has been an industry standard for more than 15 years. more Observing an opponent: 10 ways to improve a player’s game by Kim Bastable, USPTA
Growing tennis in the desert by Luis Miguel Reis, USPTA Professional, UAE I was born in Maputo, Mozambique, which is located on the East Coast of Africa. My mother is a former Olympic swimmer, having represented Portugal in the 1960 games in Rome, and my father is a former semiprofessional football player (soccer in the United States). Mozambique is a former colony of Portugal, which gained independence in 1975. more |
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Blando and sons: ‘Reaching for the stars’ – doubles style, by Jill Phipps, USPTA staff writer 2010 USPTA Clay Court Championships Promote your programs with Tennis Across America™ |
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I have been using a graduated-play system to teach children at my club for more than 25 years. Many of my former students who played college tennis and currently play as adults began this game using little racquets, nets and courts.
How do you know when your student is becoming more than a beginner? The universal tip-off is when a player begins to think more about an opponent than his or her own game. 
