How much can I charge tennis players to participate in an Official ITN On Court Assessment?
You are free to charge whatever you believe is a fair and reasonable fee to
conduct ITN On Court Assessments .
However we believe that by implementing the ITN On Court Assessment in to your
existing coaching programs many players will be requesting additional lessons
to help them to improve on their score and improve their overall game.
Why
should I become involved with this program and enter all the results to this
website?
This website provides players
with a unique and powerful set of tools that enable them to track and chart
their own development and improvement. Players can also compare themselves to
the average scores of players in their age category on a local, national and
international basis. We will be constantly developing new and exciting ways
that players will be able to use to analyze their own ITN assessment results.
What all this means is that it will help them to develop their tennis game by
providing objective statistics that have up until now been unavailable to players.
Now they can have access to objective data like only the top pros get access
to.
How
does this website motivate tennis players to practice and play more tennis?
This website encourages
players to practice, take more lessons and play more often by allowing players
to pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses of their ITN On Court Assessment
in relation to their International Tennis Number in the same manner as thousands
of players from all around the world. To take this further, they can compare
their results with these players worldwide.
What
information can this website give the tennis player?
We use dynamically generated
full colour charts to enable tennis players to get a clearer understanding of their
Official ITN On Court Assessment results. It is objective data that will help
them to gain a greater understanding of themselves and their tennis game. Here
are a few of the ways we display tennis players assessment results.
Display their ITN Rating.
Display their position
in relation to all tennis players in their age category.
Display their position
in relation to all tennis players in their State/Region/Country.
Display their position
in relation to all tennis players and categories globally.
Compare their assessment
results in relation to tennis players they select.
Display their percentage
breakdown for each section (GS Depth, Volley Depth, Accuracy, Serve and Mobility)
to perfect score.
Display their percentage
breakdown for each section (GS Depth, Volley Depth & GS Accuracy) Forehand
v Backhand to perfect score.
Display their total results
over time to show improvement.
Display their results
over time to show improvement for Forehand and Backhand.
Compare their results
over time to show improvement against average for age group by different locations.
(Local, national and international).
Display their percentage
breakdown for errors in each section (GS Depth, Volley Depth, Accuracy &
Serve).
Do
I have to pay to use the services on this website?
Yes, a small fee is charged
to enter assessment results. 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.
OK,
I know how to conduct an Official ITN On Court Assessment. Now what do I do?
Step 1: Register as an assessor
on the website, purchase an Official ITN On Court Assessment Kit and an amount
of credits.
Step 2: Inform all your
tennis players about the Official ITN On Court Assessment and that you will be conducting
Official ITN On Court Assessments for all your tennis players. Make sure they understand
that the ITN stands for International Tennis Number which has been developed
by the International Tennis Federation as a means to rate tennis players on a global
scale from 1 to 10. 1 being of professional standard and 10 being a player new
to the game.
Step 3: Inform all your
tennis players of the benefits they will receive by completing the assessment
and having their results entered on to the official website as described above.
Step 4: Conduct the assessments.
Make sure that the assessment score sheets are completed correctly and that
the tennis player details are recorded in a clear and readable format. Also ensure that the tennis player completes the Consent Form. If the player is under 18 a parent or guardian must complete the player consent form on the tennis players behalf.
Step 5: Enter all assessment results to this website.
Step 6: After you have completed
entering all your player's assessment results you should print out all your
players confirmation receipts and return them to the players. Each player's
confirmation receipt contains the following information.
Player's name.
Player Profile Number.
Player Password.
Assessment score.
The player's ITN rating.
Step 7: After the player
receives their confirmation receipt from you they can log in to this website
and start using all of the tools to evaluate their Official ITN On Court Assessment
score free of charge.
How
can I integrate the assessment into my existing tennis coaching programs?
The ITN On Court Assessment
has been specifically designed to enable tennis coaches to easily integrate the system
into their existing tennis coaching programs. The assessment usually takes less than
10 minutes to conduct per player and is ideal for group sessions where you can
rotate students through the assessment. Alternatively you may wish to conduct
individual assessments. In both instances players may require additional lessons
to prepare prior to being assessed.
How
often should I assess tennis players?
We
recommend that all tennis players are assessed on a quarterly basis. Ideally at the end of
each terms coaching program. However, players can be assessed more often if
they wish.
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 becoming
an Official ITN On Court Assessor and registering on this website. As soon as
you become familiarized with the Official ITN On Court Assessment and you download
the Official Score Sheet you can start to conduct Official ITN On Court Assessments.
Then you can enter your players assessment results on to this website and provide
them with their Player Profile Number and temporary Password. As soon as they
receive this information they can log in and start using all our advanced analytical
tools and view the dynamic full colour charts of all their assessment results.
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.
• 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.
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.
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
