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Two days is 10 minutes of tennis with World Round Tennis Coach Australian and Puerto Rico

Justin Yeo.

We have a new series and today is going to be our first 9 1/2 minutes of brainstorming

and we want to jump right in.

So Justin, we want to talk about the future of tennis.

Where do you want to start?

Well, I think what came up about this is if we really look at the men's top 10, even

the women's, but mostly the men's.

If we look at the amount of variety and the amount of variation of style of players,

even height and size, there's no, well, there are some common things, obviously, to make

a top 10, top 20 player, but there's a lot of variation between the styles of players that

we're seeing now.

And we're going to see variation, obviously, mixed ranking wise, which we're seeing that

as well.

So it brings my attention that the future of tennis is for two people, the professionals,

the coaches out there that are teaching whether it be the amateur player who wants to play

like it is on the TV or he's teaching talented juniors.

And even maybe not even talented.

You just mentioned a word, talent a few seconds ago with me.

And who knows what a talented junior is?

I think a talented junior is someone who loves playing the game.

He loves getting out the court and enjoying themselves.

And then you can shape all those things if they have that.

So that being said, if you do have some talented passionate tennis players like that, you

should be thinking 10 to 20 years from now, what the game is now, what it's going to be

evolved to for them.

So that's probably the point I would say about future tennis because there's one part

is the development and the professional part.

And then second part of it would say we're future tennis is what we're seeing with the movement,

spectators and people wanting to come out and play or watch the game, you're going to

see a lot more variation of ranking.

So we're going to see a top three like we had for 20 years where everyone idolized, you

know, a fad or a jock of it, Nadal.

We're going to see a lot of variation in and out, I think.

And we talk about that and we say, okay, we want to target the future.

And we say you and I had a conversation about my two and a half year old, just loves tennis,

wants to play all the time.

Well, I don't know the things that he's going to need when he's 20.

I only know what the 20 year olds need now.

I only know what the top 10 need now.

So how do I know about strings and the new technologies?

We're making a bit of a guess, aren't we to be able to work backwards and say, okay,

we want to be a really great tennis player at 20 years old.

Well, that's 17 and a half years from now.

How do we know what the future looks like?

How are we going to figure this out?

That's great question because technology right now is blowing up everywhere else.

Probably the only thing that maybe doesn't really blow up so much is tennis because we've

got the graphite records that keep just getting tweaked here and there.

What we've gotten seen lately is that the string tensions have dropped down dramatically

since I was playing.

And that's been an adjustment as well.

So I think 10, 20 years from now, yeah, we could see some crazy technology things coming

out.

We are AI stuff that helps juniors on wet days still be training and practicing any more balls

than we did.

You know, so I don't know.

That can be said as out of our reach.

What I would say is in our reach is, excuse me, what we see in the game now will be what's

going to be in 10 years from now, no doubt.

So the variety taking the ball on the rise, footwork, endurance, maintenance, a lot of things

like that.

Well, we want to also want to think about the, I would say the off the court action.

So the, say the mental health or the mental toughness, we're going to talk about interviews.

You have to be able to handle those things.

Does Facebook still exist or Instagram in 10, 15 years?

Is that going to be a different thing?

So we've got a lot of questions to be able to look into the future and say, how do we prepare

for it?

Because if we've got a five year old or a 10 year old, we both talked earlier and we said,

okay, well, maybe 10 to 12 was that time where we really might consider taking it seriously

as a player.

But we also look at the social players.

Okay, well, is there anything that changes there or is social tennis always the same?

It's always just you show up on the weekend and you play and have fun.

Are there technical advances or anything else that changes those?

I think most of what we look at is the juniors in this setting, right?

Yeah, I guess what are the points that I've made on my paper is data.

And we're very data driven now and this technology is coming out all the time now.

I was showing us more data trying to record your hitting balls and playing.

We're seeing more and more stuff.

Now, as we see that, it sort of finds its way down to the amateur level of an app or a phone

or a camera or, and I think that's the kind of technology we're going to see more and

more and more in the next five to the years of the data driven stuff in the lower level

of tennis, like amateur tennis.

I mean, you know, not many people talk about play side anymore, but play side still around.

And it would have been something cool if they could just make it very mobile that you

know, Sean and Justin get on court, record each other and go, okay, there's some things

that I did there and things that I need to grow there and understand where I wasn't

baseline and did I work my way forward and back how many kilometres did I cover for

the match?

You're describing Swing Vision and it already exists and it's an app on a phone.

So we have some of those things and we've seen that at the amateur level to be able to

help the amateur player, the social player that says, you know what?

Yeah, I would love some data from my own.

I don't need everything that the guy see on the IBM stat trackers and all that, but I

would like some data, some information and I can do that with an app on my phone from

perspective of trying to predict the future.

I think that's what we're going to talk about more of over the next few weeks, which is,

all right, what's coming next?

What do we need to prepare for?

Much of it is a guess.

Much of it is, okay, well let's look at it.

What it is now.

And as you mentioned, there's a variety in the game.

Everybody just loved it when there was a huge difference between center who's just a

straightforward machine and Alcaraz, who is a highlight reel and drop shots everywhere.

So, very different types, like you say, in the top 10 and you sent me a message earlier.

Taylor Fritz is number four in the world.

What is this, you know, what's going on?

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, great to see US tennis getting up there.

There's a little punch out there for that one because it's a long time on the men's

side, the US to be up this high.

So that's awesome that he's up there.

But you just, this is a great, great stormy session because you just described, I actually

watched tennis a lot, played tennis a lot.

You're actually on behind the scenes, learning all the technologies, all the different businesses,

all the little services out there that I'm completely unaware of, which obviously shows

because I said, "place-ite."

But, and then that's when we bounce back and forth and help each other in a little plug

to American Rackensports Association.

This is what it's all going to be about.

And so I think we can highlight future tennis with exactly what we're trying to accomplish

as well.

But on the other side of it, I'd like to get a punch out to everybody that's ever listened

to us to start just giving us some engagement.

What is it you would love to hear more of?

There's not much between the two of us that we can't cover.

And if there is something, we have a pretty wide network to reach out to and invite to

calls and have someone join our calls.

So I think that's where it's getting to the point for me for future tennis and the future

of 10 minutes of tennis.

Is it we'd like to see some engagement and we keep growing and we keep trying to help again?

There we go.

We're looking for the future of 10 minutes of tennis.

Justin, I appreciate it.

Maybe we need a second brainstorming session next week because we got a lot to cover here

in the next few weeks.

But thank you, sir.

Our 10 minutes are up.

I appreciate it.

I will see you next week.

Thanks so much.

See you.

Bye.

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