A strength and conditioning program for tennis players is a specially designed system of knowledge, abilities and activities that must take into account the peculiarities, as well as many other specifics of tennis as an individual sport. Such a program requires the assessment, analysis, and treatment of all relevant and specific factors that contribute most to success in the sport.

Strength and Conditioning training in tennis is special and specific for the reason that a strength and conditioning coach for tennis players, based on a thorough knowledge of current issues, must demonstrate his ability to create in the design of the current training program

In order to succeed in this, he must have a thorough knowledge of the tennis game ,and above all: all its general and specific motor, physiological, functional and psychological requirements, adequate periodization of sports training (characteristics and dynamics of the preparatory, competitive and transitional period in tennis, block periodization, structure and different types of individual training, microcycles and mesocycles, as well as ways of establishing and maintaining sports form), supercompensation, recovery, rehabilitation methods, monitoring methods, diagnostics and prognosis of growth progression, development and raising the level of motor skills, all in relation to the specificity of the organization and system of tennis competitions.

The greatest degree of importance is a comprehensive analysis of the intensity and capacity of the realization of general and specific motor skills in tennis, in relation to the crucial factors that are the basis of its creation and the condition for the practical implementation of the conditioning program.

My tennis coaching system is based on the principles below.There are four levels of group trainings planned as well as an individual approach. All trainings are held by agreement and in sync with the requirements of tennis training.
Trainings are based on the following factors:

• determining the stage of development, the period of preparation of players and the sensitive phase of young tennis players
• determination of individual characteristics and abilities (testing of players)
• determining the scope and intensity of training within the microcycle and mesocycle
• determining specific goals, tasks, methods and means of the training process
• harmonization of tennis and fitness trainings in order to realize the set tasks of advancement

Stages of development of tennis players:

Stage 1 – coaching young tennis players
a. Pre-training (6-8 years)
b. Basic training (8-10 years)
c. advanced training (10-14 years)

Stage 2 – coaching top tennis players
a. Preparatory trainings for top results (14-16 years)
b. Trainings for top results (16-19 years)

Stage 3 – coaching recreational tennis players
a. Trainings of pre-rehabilitation (injury prevention) character – for recreational       athletes

TENNIS SCHOOL

• Group trainings

LEVEL 1 (2 players) – suitable for the age of advanced and top training (12-16)
3 or more workouts per week. This level of preparation, in addition to regular tennis training, provides a competitive and training form at the national level.

LEVEL 2 (4 players) – suitable for the age of basic and advanced training (8-14)
3 workouts per week for 1 hour. Compared to the previous level (3), the trainings are far more demanding and with regular tennis trainings they provide a basic competitive level of physical preparation. In addition, they help to perform more complex tennis technical trainings.

LEVEL 3 (6 players) – suitable for basic training age (8-10)
3 workouts per week for 1 hour. Trainings include general physical preparation with frequent use of measuring and training electronic equipment. This level is suitable for tennis players who are just beginning with a more serious approach to fitness training.

LEVEL 4 (8-10 players) – suitable for pre-training age (6-8)
2 workouts per week for 1 hour. Trainings include general motor preparation, and above all exercises of coordination, balance, reaction, frequency of movement, techniques of correct movement, etc. This level is suitable for tennis players who are just beginning with a basic approach to fitness preparation.

• Individual trainings

Trainings include specific motor preparation with frequent use of measuring and training electronic equipment in order to control and form the right level of load that gives the best possible training effect.

TENNIS COMPETITORS

• taking complete care of the general and specific physical preparation of the athlete
• use of the most modern training methods and electronic telemetry equipment
• long-term planning and precise permanent form control (load-recovery)
• number of trainings by agreement with the coaches in accordance with the periodization of the competition

INDIVIDUAL CONDITIONING TRAINING
GROUP (2 PLAYERS) CONDITIONING TRAINING
GROUP (2 PLAYERS) TECHNICAL-CONDITIONING TRAINING

A form of training in which tennis and fitness coaches work at the same time, with constant monitoring of the training load and recovery of players using the most modern telemetry equipment.

• integral method (analysis and synthesis) of technical, tactical, psychological and physiological characteristics of the game
• assessment of the development of the tennis game and assessment according to the model of a top tennis player
• assessment of the potential of players in different areas and the development plan in different periods
• a long-term plan for creating a strategy and speed of player development