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Help Your Players Learn How To Eat Like the Pros: Tennis Sport Nutrition Trends

Listen to the below webinar presented by iTPA Certification Commissioner Page Love on Tennis Sport Nutrition Trends. Continue reading

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Video: Crossover Drill for Tennis

Below is a short video by Satoshi Ochi demonstrating a Crossover Drill for Tennis. Continue reading

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Mental Skills Training for Tennis Players: An Added Skill Set for the Tennis Performance Specialist

Tennis is an individual sport. Therefore, it is imperative for players to develop intrinsic values, motives, and self-control. In today’s game, Continue reading

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Recovery interventions and strategies for improved tennis performance

Improving the recovery capabilities of the tennis athlete is receiving more emphasis in the research communities, and also by practitioners (coaches, physical trainers, tennis performance specialists, physical therapists, etc). The purpose of this article was to Continue reading

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Analyzing Roger Federer’s Backhand

As the current greatest tennis player of all time, it is hard to find too many weaknesses in Roger Federer’s game. Continue reading

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iTPA Executive Director Dr. Mark Kovacs Radio Show Link

Click below to listen to the iTPA’s Executive Director Dr. Mark Kovacs being interviewed on by Alex Ramirez 4/23/2014 Continue reading

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10 Key Concepts of Youth Physical Fitness

Improving youth physical fitness is a major objective of city, state, regional and federal government agencies, multiple organizations and trade associations, non-profits and private companies. Below is an article provided by Continue reading

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Position Statement on Youth Resistance Training: The 2014 International Consensus

The summary of the document concludes with this statement: “A compelling body of scientific evidence supports participation in appropriately designed youth resistance training programmes that are supervised and instructed by qualified professionals.”

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Planning and Periodization for the Elite Junior Tennis Player

By Josh Bramblett, iTPA Staff

Planning and periodization for the development of the tennis player is paramount for short and long term success, improvement in performance and the reduction in the likelihood of injuries. Most elite junior tennis players’ development is based either on Continue reading

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Todd Martin and Mark Kovacs Tennis Serve Tips: Video

View this video clip from Todd Martin and Dr. Mark Kovacs discussing the serve. This is taken from the Drills and Exercises to Improve the Tennis Serve DVD, now available for purchase at http://www.itpa-tennis.org/dvds.html. Continue reading

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