Want to become a professional or elite tennis player? Know someone who does? Do you coach high performance players? From Go to Pro provides a pathway to mastery of tennis to the professional ranks. While at the very top levels, some talent is required; the primary prerequisite for mastering tennis at an elite level is work, work, and more work, combined with passion, commitment, and purposeful practice. From Go to Pro gives the technical, tactical, developmental, and competitive expertise to move into tenniss upper levels.
A manual for players, coaches, and parents, From Go to Pro shows the way to excellence in tennis, the sport for a lifetime. With sections on technique, organizing practices, handling the rigors and pressures of competition and practice, developing a competition schedule, and parenting, From Go to Pro guides in all aspects of mastering tennis.
Om författaren
Mark Beede is a USPTA, PTR, and ATPCA certified tennis coach, manager, and educator. Born and raised in Maine, USA, Beede received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and law degree from the University of Maine School of Law. After practicing law for sixteen years, Mark changed careers to tennis and moved to Hawaii to work with the USTA–Hawaii Pacific section and the Hawaii Pacific Tennis Foundation. Beede then moved to Istanbul, Turkey, to work as director of coaching education and special projects with Gavin Hopper at his international academy of professional players and elite juniors. Beede has a grown daughter and two beautiful grandchildren. Now based in Hawaii, Mark loves to travel the world as an observer, tourist, consultant, and promoter for tennis, the sport for a lifetime.