#63: Dave Miley – The Good, Bad & Ugly of Global Tennis Development

Dave Miley has an incredible amount of experience within high performance in tennis having been the Owner of Record tennis for 10 years before joining the ITF for 24 years where 18 of those were as the Executive Director of Development You’ll get to know: – The difference between succesful an unsuccesful associations – What professional tennis could do better – Which contries that will rise to the top in the future Enjoy the show! Timestamps 01:30 3 biggest wins while serving as technical director 04:12 Why doubles is important 05:30 Why ATP/WTA is not simulating 06:45 How professional tennis could be better 09:23 The Advances Coaches Manual 11:11 What Dave would add/remove from the manual 12:11 The reasoning for Play & Stay 14:06 Greatest challenges as Technical Director 17:18 What Dave would have loved to do 22:02 Most common mistakes of National Associations 26:03 National Associations that got it right 33:45 Concerns regarding GPTCA 38:23 What Dave would like to do going forwards 43:30 How Dave would teach coaches in 3 easy steps 46:53 The countries rising to the top in the future 49:35 The Grand Slam Development Funds 52:15 The importance of the serve 53:50 How Dave gets better 58:15 The books that have inspired Dave 60:30 Your reputation is everything 61:40 Using time effectively 67:00 Dave’s advice