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Opinion of Former Australian Open Boss Paul McNamee about Tennis Australia’s Development Program — 3 Comments

  1. I totally agree with Paul! The ‘system’ should encourage and support (financially and with expertise) the special bond between player and private coach! The system can never be a substitute for that relation that is the core of a long-term development.

  2. Paul McNamee is 100 per cent correct. It should not be the role of a national body to sever successful relationships between private coaches and their students; the proper role of a national body should be to support and nurture those relationships. There is no surer way to minimize a nation’s chances of producing champions than to alienate the entire private coaching community by effectively declaring war on them. Tennis Australia’s divisive and, as Paul points out, fatally flawed approach to junior development does, though, have one redeeming feature; namely, it provides a superb model for guaranteed success as all one would have to do is implement the exact opposite of every one of its failed and failing policies.