#48: Juan Viloca – Lessons from Pato Alvarez applied to Modern Tennis

In this episode you’re going to listen to Juan Viloca. Juan was a professional player himself for more than a decade with a career high in singles of #47. After his own career Juan had coaching stints with Flavia Panetta & Svetlana Kuznetsova & helped out Pato with players such as Gilles Mueller & Grigor Dimitrov.

You’ll get to know:

– Pato’s training methods
– What cleaning the games means & how to do it
– How Juan felt a lack of competencies & what he then did

Enjoy the show!

Timestamps
01:30 The Team Juan was a part of
05:30 What we can apply from Pato
11:32 Cleaning the game
12:05 How being tough can help
15:54 The 3 different areas
19:53 Would Pato still do the same?
22:12 Have we as Tennis Coaches become too soft?
26:12 20’s & 21’s
29:00 Lack of competencies
40:30 Communication skills
42:50 The Relation
44:44 Why Mats Wilander os not coaching on the tour
51:03 Top players are extremely intelligent