LAKE NONA, FL, Feb. 3, 2023 — The US Skilled Tennis Affiliation has expanded its partnership with the Girls’s Tennis Teaching Affiliation (WTCA).
As a part of the brand new settlement, the USPTA and the WTCA will host two joint WTCA and USPTA workshops this yr, with one being along side a WTA Girls’s Skilled occasion in the summertime of 2023. There may even be a WTCA specialty course provided at every USPTA World Convention via 2025.
Based in 2015 by Ann Grossman Wunderlich and Sarah Stone, the WTCA is the primary group of its type, solely devoted to advancing girls’s tennis via completely educated coaches. With an unimaginable crew of Grand Slam champions, medical advisors, and internationally famend coaches, the WTCA makes use of mentorship applications, conferences across the globe, and academic teaching programs to each educate and encourage passionate tennis coaches with the one aim of enhancing the world of ladies’s tennis.
“If we will proceed to teach and empower our girls’s tennis coaches, we aren’t solely enhancing the standard of teaching that our feminine athletes are receiving, however we’re additionally rising the longer term pool of tennis-teaching professionals,” stated John Embree, USPTA CEO.
“We’re thrilled to be partnering with the USPTA in retaining extra females in tennis,” stated WTCA CEO Sarah Stone. “Collectively we’ll ship coach schooling particular to working with feminine athletes. Having the chance to influence tennis alongside the worldwide chief in coach schooling is a superb privilege for myself and all the WTCA crew. We’re so excited in regards to the new occasions that we’ll do collectively.”
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