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Paul Roetert is the Managing Director of the United States Tennis Association's Player Development Program. In addition, he serves as Tournament Director of the U.S. Open Junior Tennis Championships. Before re-joining the USTA in November, 2001, Paul spent two years as the Executive Director of the American Sport Education Program. Prior to that position he spent eleven years as the Administrator of Sport Science for the USTA where he developed the sport science program. He also served as Vice Chairman of the sport science committee.
Paul has published extensively in the field of tennis, including two books, 16 book chapters and over 100 articles. He is a Fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), a member of the United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA) and the Professional Registry (PTR). In 1998 he received the PTR's Plagenhoef Award for sport science; in 1999 the Editorial Excellence Award from the National Strength and Conditioning Association for his work on the Journal of Strength and Conditioning and Research; in 2000 the Outstanding Alumni award from the University of Connecticut. He is also the 2002 Educational Merit Award recipient from the International Tennis Hall of Fame for outstanding service to the game of tennis.
Paul holds a Ph.D. in biomechanics from the University of Connecticut. Originally from the Netherlands, he and his wife Barbara reside in Miami, Florida.
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I gave one of my students this very lesson today. He would try to fix his swing during the match when things went bad, and they always did lately because he was thinking about swing mechanics during the swing. I believe you must strive to be 100% mechanical or conscious in your set up and pre shot routine, and then switch to100% sub consious in the swing. I believe that people concentrate very hard in tennis but on the wrong things. There are only 2 things you need to concentrate on when swinging and that is a mental image of the shot and target or trying to see the racket hit the ball such as the back or inside back of the ball. Focus on that will keep you out of the conscious mind and let the sub conscious mind make your swing. It works for all of the best players!
Randy
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Posted by: Randy | July 17, 2010 10:49 PM
Your video's on awareness has helped me enormously. I had a swing that wasn't too good. I was accurate, yes, but lacked distance and it strained my back muscle.
Thanks,
Ted
Posted by: Ted | June 28, 2010 12:47 AM
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Ross
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Posted by: Tim | December 13, 2009 1:02 PM