The 1, 3 and 6 day a week junior tennis player

So, look, most of your coaching program or academy or school, call it what you like, most of it will be full of people playing once per week.

All right, so who plays once per week? So you've got the, the triers at a younger age.

The parents go, "Oh, let's play some tennis.

Tennis is a nice safe sport.

It's great for girls and boys.

Let's, let's sign up for tennis lessons." Okay? So they sign up, maybe it's two hundred and fifty, three hundred dollars for a term of tennis.

It's a group lesson, and they play once a week.

Maybe it's an hour a week, would be, say, an average for this situation.

Younger kids might be thirty minutes or forty-five minutes.

So these are your once a week players.

Now, let's, let's talk about once a week players.

So are you gonna become a champion playing once a week? Of course not.

There is no chance that you're gonna become a champion playing once a week.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, because it's not like we, we-- not like everyone does tennis lessons to become the next Carlos Alcaraz.

It's, it's pretty rare, right? So some people wanna do tennis lessons because they wanna learn a sport that they can play for their whole life.

So they take the once a week lessons, they learn the basics.

Maybe they then play again with their, their parents on, on holidays, or, uh, maybe they have a hit with a friend every now and again.

But really, they're just getting a taste.

Okay? It's like a sampler pack.

They're getting a taste test on, on what tennis is, and they will learn at a reasonably slow rate.

Tennis is quite technical.

Uh, it takes a lot of muscle memory to, to get your, you know, get your strokes right.

And also a little-- it takes a lot of practicing the actual point play to understand where you should hit, where you should stand, and things like that takes some time.

So what should be your focus with your once a week player? You want them to really enjoy it.

So the focus shouldn't be on push, push, push, push.