TIM LUDEKE

As a high school tennis coach I see many of the kids who are trying out for my team not having all of the skills they need to play at a competitive level. The overall level of high school tennis in Orange County is pretty high, especially in South Orange County. We don’t know if one of our young students in a group lesson will be bitten by the tennis bug and decide he/she wants to play tournaments and/or be on his/her high school team.

We owe our students the best possible instruction. We owe them the best opportunity to be as good as they want to be. We can’t make them exceptional athletes. We can’t give them amazing eye-hand coordination. We can’t give them a tremendous desire to compete. But, we can teach them excellent technique. Everything is learnable. Everything is teachable.