Timeline for Is a person likely to realize most of their ultimate potential in a three-day tennis clinic?
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| May 8, 2014 at 21:10 | vote | accept | Tom Au | ||
| Apr 26, 2014 at 0:27 | comment | added | jamauss | Sounds like you might be confusing "teaching pro" with "tour pro" - I've never met a teaching pro that is actually competing on the pro tour playing matches at that level like a tour pro would. They just work at local clubs teaching tennis to whoever wants lessons. I'd say 99.9% of the time - a tour pro would absolutely blow away a teaching pro in a real match. | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 22:22 | comment | added | Tom Au | I was under the impression that this was basically the pool for teaching pros. The best ones go to the grand slam events, the middle ones to the regional "circuits" and the bottom of a very good crop to the clubs. I did overstate by saying that the local club pro was "likely" to be 6.0 as opposed to "possibly." | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 22:08 | comment | added | jamauss | Speaking of the US Open - each spring/summer the USTA hosts these regional competitions that fall under their "US Open Playoffs" competition. The winner of which gets a wild card into (I think) the US Open qualifying tournament. Lots of good players enter (good collegiate D1 players, top juniors etc.) and most get beaten badly by low-level pros competing for that spot. Even at the top levels of the game there are multiple levels of skill. | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 22:05 | comment | added | jamauss | Yeah those numbers (at least down to 6.0s) is probably pretty accurate. I've never seen any numbers on total tennis players globally but you could be correct. | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 22:00 | comment | added | Tom Au | Here's in exponential model. In the whole world, there might be 500 7.0s; 5,000 6.0s; 50,000 5.0s; 500,000 4.0s; 5 million 3.0s; 50 million 2.0s; 500 million 1.0s who have picked up a racket and swung it. | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 21:49 | comment | added | Tom Au | Actually, the actress was Raquel Welch, I read about her in Time magazine in the 1970s, remembered the vignette recently, and "fired away." Yes, if you're 7.0, see you at Wimbleton or the U.S. Open, but even then, there's a huge difference between say, 28th and 128th. The top 10-20 might be 7.5 or 8.0 compared to 7.0 for number 128. A 5.0 might be a local club champion/teaching pro, not get anywhere near US Open. | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 21:33 | history | answered | jamauss | CC BY-SA 3.0 |