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Tennis Player - Frequently Asked Questions

Player FAQ

:I'm serious about improving my tennis, tell me how you can help?
:Why should I use this website?
:What information can this website give me?
:How can I get my Official ITN On Court Assessment certificate?
:Do I have to pay to use the services on this website?
:I've completed an Official On Court Assessment but I'm not on this website. Why not?
:Who can chart my results?
:Do I have to live in a certain country to use this website?
:Who can participate in an Official ITN On Court Assessment?
:Who can conduct an Official ITN On Court Assessment?
:What are the benefits of creating an objective Official ITN On Court Assessment?
:What is the Official ITN On Court Assessment?



I'm serious about my tennis, tell me how you can help?

This website allows you to pinpoint your strengths and weaknesses of your ITN On Court Assessment in relation to your International Tennis Number in the same manner as thousands of players from all around the world. To take this further, you can compare your results with these players worldwide.

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Why should I use this website?

This website provides you with a unique and powerful set of tools that enable you to track and chart your own development and improvement. You can also compare yourself to the average scores of players in your age category on a local, national and international basis. We will be constantly developing new and exciting ways that you will be able to use to analyze your own data. What all this means is that it will help you to develop your tennis game by providing objective statistics that have up until now been unavailable to players. Now you can have access to objective data like only the top pros get access to.

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What information can this website give me?

We use dynamically generated full colour charts to enable you to get a clearer understanding of your Official ITN On Court Assessment results. It is objective data that will help you to gain a greater understanding of yourself and your tennis game. Here are a few of the ways we display your assessment results.

• Display your ITN Rating.
• Display your position in relation to all players in your age category.
• Display your position in relation to all players in your State/Region/Country.
• Display your position in relation to all players and categories globally.
• Compare your assessment results in relation to players you select.
• Display your percentage breakdown for each section (GS Depth, Volley Depth, Accuracy, Serve and Mobility) to perfect score.
• Display your percentage breakdown for each section (GS Depth, Volley Depth & GS Accuracy) Forehand v Backhand to perfect score.
• Display your total results over time to show improvement.
• Display your results over time to show improvement for Forehand and Backhand.
• Compare your results over time to show improvement against average for age group by different locations. (Local, national and international).
• Display your percentage breakdown for errors in each section (GS Depth, Volley Depth, Accuracy & Serve).

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How can I get my Official ITN On Court Assessment certificate?

You can print out your own Official ITN On Court Assessment certificate after you have completed your first Official ITN On Court Assessment and your assessor has entered the results on to this website. However, you must complete 3 Official ITN On Court Assessments to receive your true ITN rating. The total assessment score on your last 3 assessments are averaged to produce your true score and ITN rating. Click here to see what the Official ITN On Court Assessment certificate looks like.

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Do I have to pay to use the services on this website?

No, it's completely free for you, the player. You can use all the services the website has to offer completely free of charge. Your assessor is charged a small fee when they enter your assessment result into this website. The fee is currently $1.10 USD per assessment result. Most assessors will incorporate this charge into the fee they charge to conduct an Official ITN On Court Assessment. You just have to insist that they enter your assessment results on to this website so that you can track and chart your own development and improvement.

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I've completed an Official ITN On Court Assessment but I'm not on this website. Why not?

First of all, well done for completing an Official ITN On Court Assessment. If your assessor hasn't entered your assessment results on this website then you will not be able to use the many services that we provide to players just like you. You need to encourage your assessor to register on this website so they can enter your assessment results. After your assessor registers and enters your assessment results, they should provide you with your unique Player Profile Number and a password. Once you have these two items you can log in and start using all the services on this website free of charge.

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Who can chart my results?

We have designed this website with you the player in mind. We understand that your results are important to you and that you should have control over who sees them. The only way another player can chart your results is if they know your Player Profile Number. So if you don't want anybody else to be able to compare your assessment results, make sure you keep your player profile number secret at all times.

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Do I have to live in a certain country to use this website?

No, this website has been specifically designed to cater for tennis players from all over the world. You are more than welcome to become part of this global tennis community by encouraging your local tennis coach to become an Official ITN On Court Assessor. As soon as your coach has familiarized themselves with the Official ITN On Court Assessment and downloaded the Official Score Sheet you can participate in the program. You just have to insist that the assessor enters your assessment results on to this website and provides you with your Player Profile Number and Password. As soon as you receive this information you can log in and start using all our advanced analytical tools and view the dynamic full colour charts of all your assessment results.

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Who can participate in an Official ITN On Court Assessment?

• Any person wishing to receive an understanding of their current level of play.
• Any person wishing to track their own development and improvement.
• Any person wishing to compare themselves with other players on a local, national and global scale.
• Any person wishing to get a clearer understanding of their tennis strengths and weaknesses.

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Who can conduct an Official ITN On Court Assessment?

• All tennis coaches.
• Staff members of local, state and national tennis associations.
• Tennis club and centre officials.
• Teachers in schools.

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What are the benefits of creating an objective official ITN Assessment?

The ITN Assessment provides a mechanism to track the progress of young champions around the world as they grow and develop. (E.g. It would be fascinating to have the Assessment scores of Andre Agassi and Lleyton Hewitt at different ages as they developed. Imagine all the aspiring young champions measuring their own progress against our current champions.

Key Benefits

• A mechanism to attract non competition and new players into the ITN system.
• An objective method for participants to measure their own improvement.
• Enable players to make comparisons to other players locally, nationally and globally.
• A tangible path for participants to strive for and proceed along.
• A global database where players can see how they rate compared to others in their particular category around the world.
• A global bench mark that can be filtered and sorted by any number of ways.

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What is the Official ITN On Court Assessment?

• An on-court assessment based on a set number of tasks.
• A tool to measure control, accuracy and power in a set of tasks.
• A tool to enable players to benchmark themselves against themselves and others around the world.
• A tool to enable the comparison of players around the world.
• An assessment tool to differentiate between players of similar ability.
• A tool to encourage participation in tennis at all age groups and standards.
• A reward and recognition tool.
• A tool to enable players to track their own development and improvement.
• A tool to motivate players to improve.

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What people are saying.

ITN On Court Assessment testimonial video

Click the image above to view a short video from one of Australia's most successful tennis academies who have embraced the ITN On Court Assessment.

Andrew Kratzmann
Recently retired touring Professional Player

I have conducted ITN clinics and have graded over 200 people at all levels at clubs throughout Queensland.

The ITN is an ITF, (International Tennis Federation) initiative and is currently being implemented throughout the world. It is an on-court objective assessment that will enable all players worldwide to be linked through one rating system.

I have found this assessment to be of great benefit to clubs and coaches by enabling them to create competitive matches by putting people of the same standard against each other.

The most important benefit of the grading system that I’ve witnessed is that it creates a desire in people to play the game more.

95% of the people I’ve graded have said to me they think they can do better next time they take the test.

For example, say they have an ITN rating of 6 (1 being professional level and 10 being basic beginner level). When I put their ITN rating on the international website at oncourtassessment.com this person can then go and see how they rate by checking how other people at their club have rated.

This is when it creates healthy competition, when they see someone they think they can beat with an ITN rating of 5. This makes them want to practice more and do the test again to try and better their rating.

The On Court Assessment can be taken any amount of times. I have seen the clubs in Australia benefit from this new rating system by getting more kids and people interested in tennis and getting them more active physically.

I believe it can be of the same benefit to clubs throughout every country worldwide.Sincerely

Andrew Kratzmann
Recently retired touring Professional Player

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