About this episode
In this episode you are going to listen to Robert Davis, Robert has been on the ATP Tour for 24 years. He has served as either a Technical Director & National Coach for Peru, Panama, Thailand, Indonesia & the list goes on an on. Robert is further more a writer who regularly contributes to ATP’s DEUCE magazine, ITF publications, and TENNIS Magazine Australia. Currently he is the Technical Advisor of Strategic Operations of tennis for Sport Singapore & the coach of Matsui from Japan. In this episode you’ll get to know: – What Robert calls the “non-negotiables” in a coaching relation – How Larry Stefanki had different approaches with Gonzalez & Roddick – The difference between tennis coaches & tennis teachers Enjoy the show! Timestamps 01:30 Creating a long term coach-player relationship 02:52 The non negotiables 05:03 The difference on Technical Director & National Coach 08:20 Milos Ranonic example 09:56 Players from developing countries 11:03 Sock, Johnson, Fernando Gonzalez, Andy Roddick 13:53 What common trait the best coaches in the world share 17:45 Super Coaches 18:59 Who gets to call themselves Tour Coaches 21:18 Do apprenticeships if you are a young coach 23:15 The difference between tennis teachers & tennis coaches 26:10 What coaches deserves the credit? 28:10 The French Coaches System 29:42 How tennis coaches are left behind coaches from other sports 32:19 The chart system David Robert uses 33:30 Best part about being a touring coach 34:56 Why Robert finds the competitive nature of a player the most important 36:51 The care factor 38:17 Reading, talking, observing 40:46 Process over product 41:31 Why Robert could never coach Kyrgios 42:05 The old school fitness 43:55 Too much analytics 47:01 Specialty shots 50:02 Quality time 51:39 Robert’s advice