Quotes fron Sampras and Aggasi autobiographies
The next three blogs are taken from 2 great tennis autobiographies and relate to fitness and footwork. The books are “Pete Sampras- A champions mind” and “Open” by Andre Aggasi. Both are great reads!
This first blog was a simple but interesting method that was used to develop Sampras as a junior (at this stage he was eight years old)-
Robert Landsdorp was his forehand and ground-stroke guy
Pete Fisher was his serve coach and overseer of Pete’s development
Del little was a local coach but was the footwork and balance specialist
Larry Easley was the volley coach
He would play matches 3 times a week and play tournaments on the weekend
What I found interesting about this is that tennis is notorious for not having specialist coaches. They do in so many other sports why not tennis?