Low Performance Coach

Welcome to the Great Base Tennis Podcast.

I'm Steve Smith.

At the table, Chris Valverde.

On the phone, Dave Anderson.

Listeners, thanks for joining.

Let me tell you about Chris.

He's been on before.

Longtime pro, Portland, Oregon.

We're going to talk about his son, a real Rafa.

He's going to spend a year with us, taking a year off between... high school and college.

But I have to say this about Chris, he introduces himself, he calls me up, leaves a text, no longer an introduction, all the time we spent together.

Coach, this is a low performance coach.

So we get a chuckle out of that because listeners, for years, well, going way back, it wasn't a term, but when it became a term, high performance, and people would introduce themselves to me as a high performance coach, The wise guy in me, I know Anderson's got a little wise guy in him, is, oh, I'm

Steve, I'm a low-performance coach.

So

anyway, Chris, tell us about the tennis