#40: Frank Giampaolo – Being a Tennis Parent is Tough!

In this episode you are going to listen to Frank Giampaolo, Frank founded The Tennis Parents Workshops in 1998, conducting workshops across the United States, Mexico, Israel, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Spain. He then instituted The Mental/Emotional Tennis Workshops in the spring of 2002. Frank’s has developed 77 National Champions, hundreds of NCAA athletes, numerous NCAA All-Americans and several professional athletes. Frank is currently the Vice Chair of the USTA/SCTA Coaches Commission.

In this episode you’ll get to know:

– How it is easy to be a Tennis Coach compared to being a Tennis Parent

– The do’s & the don’ts of pre- & post match communication with a tennis player

– How do you close the gap between performance in practice & matches, How to deal with slumps & How to deal with gamesmanship

Enjoy the show!

Timestamps:
01:30 Being a Tennis Parent is tough
03:10 Balancing being a coach & a father
04:21 A game of keep away
06:23 Utilizing multiple Tennis Coaches
07:30 Negative scoring
09:15 Creating a Tennis Family Philosophy
11:23 Fixed mindset vs growth mindset
12:57 Do’s & Don’ts of pre & post match communication
15:48 Practice the way you are expected to compete
17:51 Get out of Perfectionism
19:30 Dealing with Gamesmanship
24:05 Dealing with slumps
26:54 How you can benefit from Charting
28:30 The Spiral
32:13 Parents workshop
36:22 Don’t apply your knowledge right away
38:40 Player profiling
42:08 Hardware & Software
43:57 A recipe of disaster
45:16 What you share is what you learn
46:20 Vic Braden
52:37 The whole entourage on thet same page