Top 10 reasons to use the ITN in your Tennis Coaching Business

The ITN is one of the most versatile tools currently available to tennis coaches.

Through a multitude of applications, the ITN will increase the number of players, and the enjoyment of those players, at private or public facilities. These are some of the ways in which tennis coaches can apply the ITN to the mutual benefit of this very important cause:

1. Become part of the Globally recognised ITF Ratings Scheme. By implementing the ITN On Court Assessment in to your tennis coaching programs you are becoming part of the ITF's global ratings scheme that is recognised in many nations all over the world.

2. Boost your own profile as a progressive tennis coaching program. The ITN On Court Assessment is a tool that you can use to promote your own tennis coaching business and profile.

3. Maintaining Group Compatibility. Maintaining player compatibility among participants in group lessons is a factor that can determine the effectiveness and overall enjoyment of the group. It also encourages students to practice between lessons.

4. Promotion Tool for Lesson Programs. For tennis lesson programming, the ITN offers an ideal progression for any tennis teaching programme. The distinction of basic strokes and strategies between one ITN level and the next makes an ideal guideline and sales tool to be used by coaches to promote their respective lesson programmes. The ITN On Court Assessment gives the students the chance to measure their improvement and in many ways to make the coach more accountable.

5. Motivational Tool. The one renowned aspect of golf is that players can judge their improvement and are further motivated by ‘playing against the course’ or by ‘improving their handicap’. If properly positioned in the minds of the public, the ITN and the ITN On Court Assessment is the tennis equivalent and the self-motivational tool for improvement that all tennis players can use.

6. Introduction to Tennis Tool. The most successful tennis coach is one who cares about the broad interests of the facility at which they work. At multisport facilities, there are opportunities to upgrade members from the social, health club or racquetball categories to a full membership (including tennis), providing the proper interests and incentives can be generated. The ITN through the On Court Assessment provides the teaching professional with a tool to encourage non-tennis players at any facility to make tennis their “second sport”. Arranging an ITN On Court Assessment followed by immediate and compatible games or lessons for starter players is a step towards converting that person to tennis.

7. Competition Equalization & Compatibility Tool. The ITN provides the imaginative tennis coach with a variety of ways to equalize individuals or teams during a match. The difference between two ITN ratings can be used as a means of adding to, subtracting from or working off points in order to win a game in any fun set or handicap/equalization tournament. The ITN makes the perfect equalizer for any fun tournaments at private or public facilities, which might benefit from different levels of competition. These include round robin tournaments, ladders, men’s, women’s and mixed doubles tournaments, adult-child events and team tournaments. The ITF recommended handicapping system can be used in these social events as appropriate. The ITN can be used to assure truly competitive match-play in virtually every type of activity including league tennis, corporate leagues, inter-club leagues and intra-club leagues.

8. Keep Players in the game. With player bank programmes (e.g dial-a-game initiative), ITN ratings are one of the most important elements whether it is a manual or computerized list of available players. Not being able to find compatible partners and opponents is often one of the major reasons people stop playing tennis.

9. Players can compare their own development & improvement to other players of their choice. Players can track & chart their own development & improvement in an objective manner by using all the facilities on the website. They can also compare their ITN On Court Assessment score to players from around the corner and around the world.

10. Ideal introduction to tennis tool. For starter tennis programmes, the ITN 10.3, 10.2, 10.1 tennis idea provides a progressive path for adult and junior starter players to ensure that players can move from ITN 10.3 to ITN 10 at which level the players can play competitively on a full court with a normal ball 3, 2, 1…Tennis! The use of the foam and transition balls in all starter tennis programmes is strongly recommended by the ITF.

Tennis Coaches can click here to register as an Official ITN On Court Assessor.

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