My Ten Year Long Term Athletic Development Plan

Welcome the TENNIS2020 programme

Capitalising on the Ten year plan and the rule of thumb that it takes 8-12 years of training or 10,000 hours of training to produce a top class athlete. Here is the programme i have just instilled at my club.
Send me your thoughts and if you are interested i will send you the completed version (when finalised) so you can run something similar!

Stage 1 - World Class Start
Here the key is to get kids out of primary school in the early years and onto the court. Our aim and mission is to get them to turn up for tennis habitually and fall in love with the sport! We start the key areas of fundamental movement and having fun while exploring.
Stage 2 - FUNdamentals 
Concentrating on a high class mini red programme (of which i have a few courses for you next year to understand this more) our first goal here is to teach everything needed to build the fundamentals to consistently rally co-operatively on a micro court (shorter than a mini red).
Goal Two - to develop an all round basic play  incorporating groundstroke and net development drills and play along with serve, return drills and tactical decision making skills.
Goal Three - is to work on consistent precision over the mini red court and to understand more about tactical decision making of what shot when!
Psychology training also starts here.
All the above will be used by the excellent and proven methods from 'Modern Tennis'
Stage 3 - Learning to Train
This encompasses the Orange ball and Green ball at appropriate times.
The goal here is to complete the training and understanding of growing performance factors movement skills and evolve into the full court with green ball.
Stage 4 - Training to Train
This is a key area whereby students are reaching the critical age of 12 whereby i believe there should be no underlying technical flaws and by now our students can think and problem solve for themselves on the full court from green to yellow ball. Speed, strength, continuing flexibility and consolidation of skills are our goal here.
Stage 5 - Learning to Compete
In this mini stage our students are taught to know how to enforce their game onto their opponents, where to look, how to look and how to start competing and evolving as players. They are taught to evaluate and feedback performances to coaches and peers.
Stage 6 - Training to Compete
Here our goal is to put the above into practice more automatically.
Stage 7 - Learning to Win
We aim to hit home the psychological aspects here and gain a wealth of experience in matchplay. They will feel what it is like to win close matches, easy matches, from in front and behind, any aspect that will present itself in the next stage will be experienced and taught here with key warrior mentality skills. One of the key areas here is how to lose correctly and develop to become a more formidable opponent.
Stage 8 - Training to Win
With this particular plan our students will be 15/16 years of age and literally training to see if this would be the life for them! Its decision time and the results here will speak for themselves. This is a time for evaluating and fine tuning.
Final Stage - Competing to Win
Here lies the ultimate goal of continuous improvement to enhance this! Constant and never ending improvement is key.

Although this is how i see it and what i will go with personally, feedback would be great. Although you will not see the actual year to year planning you get the gist of the programme. Feel free to steal away and utilise for yourself and if you want a more detailed programme, i will send this to you for those enquiring.
enquiries@andytennis.co.uk
00447850237342

For those interested in the programme for their youngsters then again email me on the above, this is based in the Essex area, UK. (Forgive me rest of the world but i can liaise with you if you want to set up such a programme in your area!)

Enjoy and see you on court

Andy
www.andytennis.co.uk