Richard Woodroof, TPT

Richard Woodroof is the owner and Director of Training for RAW Tennis Performance in Boca Raton, FL.  He is an ITPA-certified Tennis Performance Trainer; Speed, Agility & Quickness (SAQ) coach; a 20-year member of the USPTA and is USTA Sport Science Level-1 certified.  Richard worked with the ATP 2011 Most Improved Player Alex Bogomolov, Jr and other ATP players including Jesse Levine as well as WTA players Anna Tatishvili and Heidi El-Tabakh.  He also works with several Challenger and Futures pros.  Richard trains some of the top junior players in the USTA and ITF players from Italy, Monte Carlo, Brazil, Canada, Kazakhstan, Trinidad and Mexico. 

Richard played tennis at the University of North Carolina and spent 18 years as a High Performance coach.  Working in the tennis hotbed of Southern California, he worked with dozens of junior players who earned scholarships in every major NCAA conference.  He spent time coaching on the WTA Tour and was also a college coach.  Richard’s philosophy for training is “movement, not muscles” and he specializes in tennis movement. 

To find out more information please go to www.RAWTennisPerformance.com where you can sign up for newsletter updates and read his blog.  You can also follow Richard on Twitter @RAW10sPerform and like his Facebook page.

Check out clips from a recent audio interview with the iTPA.

New Workshop announced! Movement and Speed for Coaches will be held Saturday, October 5th from 9 am to 12 pm in Atlanta, GA. Let by iTPA Executive Director Dr. Mark Kovacs, this three hour on-court workshop will provide specific drills and exercises to develop tennis-specific movement speed, agility and quickness. Improving tennis-specific movement is paramount to success on the court at every level of the game. The format of the course is designed to allow the participant to learn the best methods and progressions and how to link these drills and exercises with strokes and strategy. The entire course will be on-court and in an interactive format to ensure a full understanding of how these drills and exercises can be implemented into your lesson plans.
 
Come and join your fellow professionals in a unique format that will allow significant interaction and case examples with scenarios that you encounter every day with your players. Worth 50 iTPA Continuing Professional Education Credits.

Visit this webpage to register

When: 
Saturday, October 5th, 2013
9 am - 12 pm EST

Where:
Georgia Gwinnett College Tennis Facility
100 Countryside Place
Lawrenceville, GA 30043
(404) 374-9750

Price: $30 for iTPA Members, $50 for non-iTPA members. If registered as a member, iTPA staff will check and if not a member send you an email with an invoice for $20.

Worth 50 iTPA CPE credits

iTPA Certified Members are the top tennis coaches, fitness trainers, strength & conditioning coaches, physical therapists, etc. in the world. Every few weeks we will be adding a new iTPA Member Spotlight with information on the member and interviews. These will be added to our new Member Spotlight Page.

Jonathan Fraser, CTPS 

Jonny Fraser has worked as a strength and conditioning and tennis coach for the past six years. He has a MSc in Sport and Exercise Science, is a certified tennis performance specialist with the iTPA alongside being a certified strength and conditioning specialist with the NSCA. He has worked with a range of players from delivering sessions to mini tennis to grand slam winning players. As a junior he has competed at National tennis competitions and was captain of his university tennis team.
 
Jonny's company Science in Tennis provides sport science support to tennis centres focusing on strength and conditioning, sport psychology and performance nutrition. He has a particular interest in youth development in tennis and the application of strength and conditioning support alongside managing the psycho social aspects of training in this age group. His company aims to provide a holistic approach to sport science in tennis utilising evidenced based practice. Jonny is going for his MTPS certification this fall.

Below are several audio interview clips on several topics.