The week before any Grand Slam, there's always a lot of discussion about what's the best way to assist talent development, and it often focuses on the country where the Slam is taking place. And while a couple of stories from South Florida newspapers don't amount to a tenth of the articles about the subject that surfaced in London papers last month, they do raise some interesting points. The Sun-Sentinel's Charlie Bricker (you'll be seeing many a link to his stories in the next two weeks) talked with John Roddick and Scott McCain about whether college is a viable option in this article entitled Levine will provide test case.
The Palm Beach Post's Charles Elmore looks at the philosophy driving the USTA's new training center at IMG/Evert's in Boca Raton. He makes some of the same points that Peter Bodo made in his post on John Isner, namely that winning in college builds confidence, a vital ingredient for success on the professional level.
Bricker seems surprised to learn that the High Performance Department of the USTA reports to the USTA Board of Directors, which, of course, makes it subject to the politics of a biennial change of leadership. Current USTA Chairperson and President Jane Brown Grimes vows to look at that, but I'm assuming there will be no decisions on that until a new USTA chief executive is named.
The Palm Beach Post's Charles Elmore looks at the philosophy driving the USTA's new training center at IMG/Evert's in Boca Raton. He makes some of the same points that Peter Bodo made in his post on John Isner, namely that winning in college builds confidence, a vital ingredient for success on the professional level.
Bricker seems surprised to learn that the High Performance Department of the USTA reports to the USTA Board of Directors, which, of course, makes it subject to the politics of a biennial change of leadership. Current USTA Chairperson and President Jane Brown Grimes vows to look at that, but I'm assuming there will be no decisions on that until a new USTA chief executive is named.
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