The Junior Coach to Fritz, Paul, Tiafoe & Opelka: The Art of Coaching

and and really really important for me is the uh no over coaching so this is this for me is a is a is a non-negotiable as well for me for the coaches it's a big uh advice for every so I don't like to tell the kids um what to do and how to do every single time I'm a big believer of uh setting up and open the door uh with the asking questions let the keep trying set up set up certain parameters where the kids I say well I I give you parameters this is good this is good around here you move you you de try uh open the door to have a conversation with the kids even if we say well but Diego but you you're going to deal uh the same way with a kid that is 11 12 13 years old that a pro that is 25 26 30 years old no and yes I'm not going to be I'm not going to expect this kid to be that uh specific on certain aspect when I ask you a question but I'm going to start there I G I have to start there to open the door for the kids 15 years later or 10 years later is going to be able to give me more feedback a more specific comments about about how they feel and what so but I'm going to start there now um my question are going to be the same how you feel what you need to work and and everything how you feel on the tournament why I'm not going to say I mean even in matches they finish a match i g to I going to go through the match based on questions no I'm not going to I'm going to let them sometimes you ask questions the kid is responding and just by responding they are they're thinking and they're like kind of setting up oh ah next time I I have to do this I have to do that um I disagree with the coaches that they need to do that you need to do this this forand is that gu and and then when they go to a match you need to look at me so I'm going to tell you what to do no sometimes kids I come and say yeah but I'm I'm so nervous I'm struggling I need you to tell me no let's let's work on that if you're nervous you're going to lose what is the maximum that you can say lose okay you're going to lose a match but by losing a match you're going to learn so we're going to learn we're going to set up we're going to practice that's when the practice become really important because right now we're gonna we're going to set up different uh different options that you may have when you're nervous so nervous everybody gets nervous or everybody get tired of some point and and everybody lose their focus what you do on those circumstances make a difference but I'm not going to tell you what to do you're going to dictate how you going to go about your your tennis your career coach life.com the traveling coaches on tour the people who we know as the players coaches they are amazing at what they do but if if you were to ask me gil who are the most important coaches in the life of a professional tennis player I would tell you unequivocally it's the coaches that developed their games and built the foundation coachlife decom is a platform where these coaches that built these pros from the ground up share their developmental Secrets the coaches who sculpted the games of Sante Goff tifo curios Fritz Sampras Draper Sharapova Pula Paul rodic Davenport shaav olov they're all on there over 300 videos in total and more being added every month [Music]