LAKE NONA, FL, Feb. 3, 2023 — America Skilled Tennis Affiliation has expanded its partnership with the Ladies’s Tennis Teaching Affiliation (WTCA).
As a part of the brand new settlement, the USPTA and the WTCA will host two joint WTCA and USPTA workshops this yr, with one being together with a WTA Ladies’s Skilled occasion in the summertime of 2023. There will even be a WTCA specialty course supplied at every USPTA World Convention by way of 2025.
Based in 2015 by Ann Grossman Wunderlich and Sarah Stone, the WTCA is the primary group of its variety, solely devoted to advancing girls’s tennis by way of completely educated coaches. With an unbelievable workforce of Grand Slam champions, medical advisors, and internationally famend coaches, the WTCA makes use of mentorship applications, conferences across the globe, and academic teaching programs to each educate and encourage passionate tennis coaches with the one aim of enhancing the world of ladies’s tennis.
“If we are able to proceed to teach and empower our girls’s tennis coaches, we’re not solely bettering the standard of teaching that our feminine athletes are receiving, however we’re additionally rising the long run pool of tennis-teaching professionals,” stated John Embree, USPTA CEO.
“We’re thrilled to be partnering with the USPTA in retaining extra females in tennis,” stated WTCA CEO Sarah Stone. “Collectively we’ll ship coach schooling particular to working with feminine athletes. Having the chance to influence tennis alongside the worldwide chief in coach schooling is a superb privilege for myself and your entire WTCA workforce. We’re so excited concerning the new occasions that we are going to do collectively.”
