ParentingAces - The Junior Tennis and College Tennis Podcast

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 23 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week's episode continues our recent theme around Tennis Parenting with guest Violet Clark. Violet is the mother to 3 tennis-playing adult daughters, all of whom started playing the sport at young ages at a local grassroots program in their hometown of Chicago. Each daughter ha...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 22 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Argentinian Tennis Parent, Hernan Chousa, is back to discuss his thoughts on being a better sports parent as well as his latest book, PARENTSHIFT . Being a former top junior and professional player himself, Hernan believed he was the best-equipped person to coach his own...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 21 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . For this week's pod, Lisa chats with sports parents, Mark and Britt McKinney, about their book, THE DRIVE HOME , and some of the things we can do to be better at this Tennis Parent thing. Mark and Britt have a daughter who participated in competitive cheerleading and a son who stil...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 20 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week's guests are two former Division I college tennis coaches - Danielle McNamara (Yale) and Tanner Stump (University of Florida) who have taken their expertise to the private sector and are now working with players and coaches on an individual level to continue to grow and i...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 19 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Lisa chats with Australian tennis enthusiast, Ric Curnow, about his solution to players ducking matches because of a potential negative impact on their UTR. Since the dawn of junior tennis ratings and rankings, we've seen players opt out of certain tournaments or matches...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 18 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week Lisa chats with Haitham Eletrabi, co-founder and CEO of Tennibot . We all know the pain of picking up tons of balls during a lesson or ball machine session. It takes up time and energy that could be better spent working on your game. Tennibot is a company that builds robo...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 17 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the Tennis Channel Podcast Network . In this episode, the ITA's Dave Mullins is back to discuss what's happening in the world of College Tennis and to update us on new and returning initiatives to look forward to. Dave Mullins is the Managing Director of the ITA. As such he works closely with the Tennis For America (TF...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 16 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the Tennis Channel Podcast Network . In this episode, Lisa chats again with Coach Peter Scales, creator of the Compete, Learn, Honor approach to junior tennis development and author of the new Raising Aces series on ParentingAces.com . Coach Pete is a highly-respected coach who works with players of all levels with a f...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 15 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Lisa chats with Stanford Men's Tennis player, Anders Matta, and the creator of CoachU, Adrian Levitt, about leveraging NIL opportunities to help both college and junior players. If you've been listening to the podcast for a while, you know how Lisa feels about the importa...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 14 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week's episode is all about using virtual reality to enhance tennis training and recovery. Yannick Yoshizawa and Nick Monroe are tennis veterans. From playing junior and college tennis to coaching, they have seen the sport change and develop over the years. One thing was missin...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 13 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the Tennis Channel Podcast Network . Lavie Sak rejoins the podcast to share V2 of the ADV Tennis Bag and ADV Tennis Backpack. Be sure to catch the video version of this one on ParentingAces.com! Making a better mousetrap has always been at the core of entrepreneurship, and Lavie's latest creations are no exception. His...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 12 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the Tennis Channel Podcast Network . Chase Hodges, Vice President at Universal Tennis, joins us this week to discuss his company's role in junior, high school, and college tennis. I highly recommend you watch the video version on ParentingAces.com so you can get a better understanding of how to use Universal Tennis. As...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 11 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, we are chatting with the former Head Women's Tennis Coach at Emory University, Amy Bryant, who has moved into the executive coaching and recruiting support space with her company, Bryant College Coaching . Amy shares her knowledge and experience regarding college tennis...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 10 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . Coach Todd Widom is back with us to shed some light on why tour players don't always make the best junior coaches. Many of you have had the good fortune to see former professional tennis players come to your local club or academy or other facility and offer to work with developing...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 9 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week we welcome Coach Tim Noonan to discuss his very interesting proposal to discourage cheating in junior tennis. Several years ago, Tim wrote an article ( click here to read in full) with some thoughts on why junior players cheat and what we as a sport can do to put a stop to...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 8 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week we return to our recent discussions around UTR, WTN, and what that means for junior tennis and college recruiting with guest Chris Lewit. Chris Lewit is a former number one for Cornell and pro-circuit player. He is a high-performance coach, educator, and the author of two...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 7 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . Our guest this week is Martin Vinokur, creator of Tennis Europe, a fantastic summer tennis-travel experience for players age 13-18 (click the ad on our homepage to go to their website). I first met Martin over a decade ago while at the US Open and learned about Tennis Europe . They...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 6 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . Former Head Women's Coach at Yale, Danielle McNamara, returns to dig into choosing the proper tournaments given all the rating/ranking changes. Last week, we spoke with ITA CEO Tim Russell about the ITA's recently-announced partnership with WTN. Many of you are feeling some confusio...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 5 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Tim Russell joins us to discuss the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's (ITA) announcement regarding its relationship with the USTA, ITF, and World Tennis Number (WTN). For those of you following the various rating systems over the last several months, you know USTA anno...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 4 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . Our returning guest this week is Coach JY Aubone who takes a deep dive into the difference between "liking" and "loving" tennis and what that can mean for overall junior development. Those of you who are long-time listeners of our podcast are very familiar with JY and his no-nonsens...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 3 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the Tennis Channel Podcast Network . Our guest this week is Coach Rick Macci who you may know from KING RICHARD as the coach of Venus and Serena Williams. Rick is a Hall of Fame coach who has been working with tennis athletes since he was 22 years old. Andy Roddick, Maria Sharapova, Sofia Kenin - these are just a few of...

Welcome to Season 12 Episode 2 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the Tennis Channel Podcast Network . Coach Todd Widom is back with us discussing the limitations of talent identification in young athletes. Governing bodies in junior tennis have traditionally relied on talent ID to determine where to allocate their financial and coaching resources. Players as young as 8 years old woul...

Welcome to the premiere episode of Season 12 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . We are so excited to bring back coach and tennis parenting author, Frank Giampaolo, to discuss his latest book and his thoughts on how we as parents can help our children have a more positive experience as they go on their Junior Tennis Journey. Frank has been coaching...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 37, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This is our final episode of Season 11 and what better way to close out the year than by taking a deep dive into the mental side of junior tennis development with Dr. Peter Scales! Coach Pete Scales, Ph. D. is an internationally known developmental psychologist and expert in posi...

Welcome to Season 11, Episode 36, of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the  Tennis Channel Podcast Network . This week, Todd Widom is back to discuss the challenges of developing junior players indoors versus outdoors. As you're well aware, there are many paths to success for junior tennis players. Some players grow up in sunny, warm climates where they can train outdoors year 'round. H...