Tennis Score Keeper

Easily accessible, interactive information is normal to your students. Your new tennis students, the ones eager to learn tennis in order to get exercise, make friends, and win matches were born about 2007. They have an AI personal assistant (their iphone). They broadcast on TikTok. Their orthodontist sends them a robo-call to remind them of appointments. Entering your tennis court and having to focus on memorizing the score instead of playing and planning will seem uncomfortable to them, like watching a frizzy-hair, slow-moving 80s movie. Your students want to focus on winning matches, not rehearsing the score for 2 to 3 hours and living through ugly score arguments. Offer your students the izzers Tennis Scorekeeper , give them the option. Tell them to be prepared to use izzers as a memory peg. They may be up against a player who demands they recite the whole game to defend the score. As Dan Travis said, calling out the score clearly , at least three seconds before every point be

Coaches Styling Strother and Dan Travis are two of the smartest tennis coaches around. They actually understand junior tennis, live their life around the events, are bringing up their own children in the sport and have written clearly about what they call, and I totally agree is, the biggest problem in junior tennis: Nobody is clear on what the score is. In Coach Strother's brilliant article  How to Solve the Cheating Problem in Tennis he is practical, clear and empathetic on what happens at Junior Events when the correct score is not always known and not always clearly called out and confirmed (which is sadly almost always the case)  parents are frustrated and angry  kids are demotivated  the outcome of the match is not clear. Who won?  focus is replaced by wondering if the score is correct  lack of confirmation of the correct score reduces planning. Coach Strother brilliantly summed it up: " Without the Score, there is no Competition ". Styrling Strother

   If you are lucky enough to live in Jacksonville, sign your kids up for the Saint John's Tennis Academy. Head Coach Patrick Diegan was on the Tour in the 80s: ask him about the 80s tour life! Coach Diegan has such a passion for teaching tennis that he written four best-selling books on it. Heather Diegan, his is wife and fellow coach, is much loved by her students. These two coaches care about bringing out the best in their students and making tennis more fun so their academy uses the izzers Tennis Scorekeeper .    I met the Diegans at State Team Tennis in Orlando. They had brought their team of elite players. I was co-coach for my Melbourne Team and was taking a break at the pavilion. Heather asked my daughter what was on her racket, was it a decoration? Belle explained that the bands were called izzers and were for keeping score. Heather had said that she had been looking for a solution: a simple way for her kids to keep track of the score. Patrick walked over and we all wat

UTR has been really great this summer encouraging coaches to organize UTR events. Stefan is the organizer for our izzers Open to be held in August. The wonderful Surfside Urgent Care is sponsoring the izzers Open, supplying $500 in prize money to the winners. Stefan will be competing using the izzers Tennis Racket Scorekeeper . He has proven that the izzers tennis racket score keeper stays on the racket during 128 mph serves. He says izzers really helps him focus in those third sets after he has been giving it his all for hours. The event will be held on the beautiful clay courts of the Aquarina Tennis Club . Sign up at myUTR.

   Our latest tennis competition, at the USTA National Campus in Orlando , was exciting and particularly of interest for izzers. I brought three players who compete using the izzers Tennis Score Keeper . Each was looking forward to improving his or her UTR ranking . The National Campus has been holding monthly UTR ladder events on Fridays. The format is round robin, three matches, two sets starting at 2-All.    It was a 100 degree day in humid Orlando, so after a few games I heard the familiar "IS IT 30-All?!" that signaled score disputes were going to start once fatigue set in. One izzers Tennis ScoreKeeper player had an argumentative opponent. He was not going to just accept that she had the izzers Tennis scorekeeper on her racket and was carefully marking and calling out the score. So she used the izzers as a memory peg to memorize how the points were won as each game progressed. Quickly, the opponent realized that she was confident in her knowledge of the score, and the