Top Coaches Know Scoring is the Top Problem in Junior Tennis

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 has started using the izzers Tennis Racket Scorekeeper at his academy and calls it "a revolution". That makes me so happy. To think of parents attending a successful junior event where their player is injury-free, the weather allows play, and all the players had a competition because the score was always known. It is such a beautiful thought!
Here is a pic from Transforming the Practice Court of an elite player of Coach Strother's with izzers on his racket.


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