Today's Thought

The USTA changed the way tennis has been taught to children around the middle of the 2000's.  Tennis noticed baseball starts with t-ball and sports such as basketball, soccer, and football have smaller fields, balls, and goals.  Their sport did not have any of that with the exception of a junior racket. The children used the same heavy pressurized ball, the same 78 foot court, and the same three foot net. What I have noticed since starting ten and under tennis lessons two years ago, is that the students are learning to develop more control, they are able to develop their strokes, and learn to keep a ball in play with more success than if they were on the bigger courts. They also changed the types of balls. The student starts out with a red foam ball and graduates to a red felt ball. As the student progresses, the student will move to the orange followed by the green tennis ball. The tennis ball color determines what size court the student is learning on.