What"s Wrong With USTA???

[CraigC]

It's out there

John,

Based on this latest request, it seems like a great time for an article on our program. Any interest?

-CC

[airforce1]

You got it, the USTA doesn't want to know who u are if u didn't win big events by 14.
I don't buy that it is beyond the USTA to get on the map with this. You can develop some indicators that would help to recognize potential. the percentages won't ever look great but they will be better than what they are currently doing.

All you need is a couple times being right with this thing every 2 years and we dominate the face of the game again

Hey, John, how about we look at making a sticky for the forum where members can input indicators of tennis success? Who knows, the USTA might give it a glance.

[kmoranon]

exactly: you've hit upon something here... USTA's players development is in my opinion a joke... It rewards all the has-been 10 and 12 year old, past winners and spend $$$$ trying to promote them to the next level and over-looks the new future up-coming or up-performing Jr. I can't name any Jr. that came out of the USTA program in recent years that made into the top pro level. I wonder ,what did the USTA do to help the Williams sisters ,Michael Chang,Jim Courier,Devenport,Sampras ect. if anything...

[John Yandell]

The assumption here is that the USTA controls or even heavily impacts player development. Can you name a top American player in the last 20 years who came up thru player dev?

I think the factors here are mainly beyond the control of the USTA--what types of athletes are going into tennis, and how motivated are they? Connors, Mac, Pete, Andre-those guys were all outsiders and/or second and third generation immigrant families.

And there is also the cyclical nature of it. These may be to some extent random statistical events: Australia, the US, Belgium, now Serbia.

[kmoranon]

Hi Everybody: I've been in tennis since the early '60s and I've seen tennis(American tennis)go down so much that it can't find a new beginning. I like to use this thread as maybe a helpful hint to someone out there from the USTA in hope that we all can give them some useful input to see American tennis go back to some respectable form...So let me hear you.... km