Professional tennis player Alicia Smith talks with Kelsey and myself today all about her journey on the pro tour and also playing in the Australian Open Doubles.

she is an absolute legend!!!

A great listen and heaps of learning to be had for all players and parents

Parenting Aces founder Lisa Stone joins me to help educate all the parents and players out there from her first hand experience in going on the tennis Journey!

we touch on many topics the almighty UTR and the mess tennis is in due to it, cheating, college tennis, automatic line calling in junior tennis, junior ITF on court coaching and learning that tennis is a great way to have an amazing relationship with your child and to not just worry about results.

lisa has a podcast called parenting Aces and a great website also so go and check them out. parentingaces.com

Sofia and Zanaida are 2 girls involved in our programs at Elite personal Development and at South Camden Tennis Club, both of the girls are involved in the tennis nsw future leaders program where they ran a fundraiser day at our club and raised a great amount of money in doing so for South Camden tennis club. Well done girls,

we want to thank the sponsors of the day
!. Woolworths Camden
2. Anytime Fitness
3. Harvey Norman
4. Tennis Ranch
5. Tennis NSW
6. Picasso Kitchen Pizzas

and a MASSIVE thank you to Aaron Talbot of Dynamic Sports Facilities Australia.

on our recent trip to the USA, we visited 9 college campuses and got to speak with over 10 college coaches.
make sure you are educating yourselves on the pathway you are heading down and don't take information from people that have zero experience in the path you want to take.

James tells his story of having a major injury and having to give tennis away totally after getting an ATP ranking to not playing for 8 years to coming back and getting the world number 1 ranking in the 30 to 35 years ITF Masters tour and to also now obtaining an ITF Men’s world ranking…… on to the goal of gaining an ATP ranking again….. all for his self fulfilment and no other reason.

I have both Jeffrey and Damien on from sportsmind Junior, these guys have a massive amount of experience in mindset training and its something all junior athletes and parents can learn from.

take a listen.

Players spend more time not hitting tennis balls or playing the game while they are on court, WHAT are you doing when you have all this time spent not hitting balls in matches???