MAY-29-13

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With guest: Jerry Simmons.... Coach Jerry Simmons is a Hall-of-fame coach from LSU. During the 1980s and 1990s LSU had teams that were in the top 10 in the US 14 of 16 seasons. The driving force for this excellence was Jerry Simmons. American Tennis with Chuck Kriese asks Coach Simmons the in-depth secrets and method of building a championship program. Simmons was known as a tough-competitive coach that never settled for mediocrity and His teams excelled in the toughest conference in USA tennis for many years. The interview is entertaining as his style was not always conventional nor understood by many other coaches. This is a great interview for knowledge of a great coaches methods to help youngsters achieve greatness in the collegiate ranks.

MAY-22-13

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With guest: Kyle Bailey Today, Coach Chuck Kriese interviews coach Kyle Bailey, Director of Talent Identification and college recruiting coordinator for The Junior Champions Center in Colleg Park, Maryland. Bailey gives deep insights into a young players preparation and steps to take when seeking out a college scholarship and finding the right school to attend. Bailey also gives a great 'what to do list' when it comes to preparing during one's freshman, sophomore, junior and senior years of high school. He talks about the highly competitve nature of seeking out a scholarship in todays college market and how to compete against the foreign players who American players have to now compete with for spots on college teams. Bailey has been a former collegiate coach at American University and the University of Maryland. For the past 5 years he has focused on the training of junior players and has coached two National Champions during that time. This interview is a great one for potential college players and the parents of those youngsters.

MAY-15-13

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Coach Kriese interviews the SEC (southeastern Conference) Coach of the Year, Josh Goffi of South Carolina. Josh was one of coach kriese's former #1 players at Rival school Clemson. Josh has taken his gamecock team from a lower-tier team to a top team in the United States collegiate system in 3 short years. Josh will give insights into his training, scheduling, coaching and teaching methods of his players to get some of the best results in the USA during this short period of time. Josh also talks about US tennis in genral and what cn be done to help put the USA back on top of the world once more. A very entertaining interview, Kriese and Goffi combine for some great insights in this interview.

MAY-08-13

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With guest: University of Indiana Coach Randy Bloemendaal Coach Randy Bloemendaal is a frequent guest on the 'American Tennis with Chuck Kriese' show. On this particular show, Coach Bloemendaal lays out the format that would save American College Tennis, and once again help to make it the best training for amateur athletes in the world. His innovative idea shows how the collegeiate team event would stay a viable format for the college season, but how to put tournament play back into the collegiate season. The debate goes on to become once again,,,,,Is college tennis a participation/entertainment activity or is it the main training ground for US players to reach their maximum potential. There is a great deal of information in this interview for any youngster who hopes to play college tennis and also insights for collegiate governing bodies to contemplate as well.

MAY-01-13

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Coach Kriese has been talking in recent weeks about missed player development opportunities in High Schools and rural areas. Todays 'American Tennis' show is an interview of a High School star and nationally prominent junior player. This young man talks about his journey in rural Louisiana to national prominence. He talks about how his hopes and dreams were nutured as a youngster and then helped to developed at each and every stage. The program gives great insight into what it takes to go from start to finish as a tennis player in the US today. Kriese speaks about the downside of our Nations Point system structure as a self-sabotage culprit that kills creativity and energy in the grass-roots arena. A very entertaining show as the coach and the student interact freely about what it takes to get it done in our current environment of US tennis.

APR-24-13

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Coach Kriese interviews Mike Kernodle. Dr. Mike Kernodle has been in the tennis research and development field of tennis and sports for 30 years as a Coach. a Professor of Kinesiology and sports science at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. Kernodle is outspoken about the lack of research behind the mandates of 10 and under tennis by the USTA and also about many of the policies presented reecently. Kernodle has served on the Sports Science comittees for tennis and voices his opinions about what the USTA does well and does not do well int he area of player development. Kernodle talks about the need for a special 'think tank' committee within the USTA to come up clearly defined objectives and solutions to the problems we face in the sport of tennis.

APR-17-13

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Coach Kriese interviews USTA National Coach and Director of Talent Identification, Kent Kinnear. Kinnear was actually one of Kriese's former All-American Players at Clemson and played in 35 Grand-Slam events during his 11 year professional career. Kinnear talks about what the USTA is dong in terms of talent development and talent identification around the country and in particular at the 17 national area training centers that the USTA supports. He shows how the coaches and the administration of the USTA are completely vested in trying to put US tennis back on top of the world competition again. He explains the philosophy of grass roots plans and how the players are nutured thoughout their whole careers. This interview is very informitive to see what the USTA does on the inside to try to have the results that all Americans want from our tennis.

APR-10-13

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Alex Slezak is a high school coach in Pittsburg. He also works tirelessly in the field of community tennis and has developed many innovative ways to promote the sport in his community and around the country. High School Tennis has 450,000 participants in the United States; however, only 8% of these play as many as 5 tournaments a year. This means that although multiple numbers of youngsters are exposed to the game, very few are becoming players. 72 percent of all professional athletes are from rural areas as well. This is a staggering number as the USTA has put millions of dollars into urban areas and tennis programs in Cities. These issues are discussed and Slezak has some great insights as to how to solve some of the problems on the developmental side of the game for these uncharted waters. High School and Rural areas are the sleeping giants for tennis development in the US.

APR-03-13

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Dr. Brandyn Fisher is Sports Psychologist and director of sports perfomance at the Tennis Center of College Park, Maryland. In this lively interview, Coach Kriese gets to the brass-tack methods of training players the old-fashioned way through the sport psychologists eyes. Fisher talked about comfining his clinical knowledge of motivation with thepractical side of motivation in working with palyers who are junior players. Fisher also gives his viewpoints on the damage that is done when palyerrs take short cuts or if abbreviated scoring systems and hybrid methods of tennis events are used. This interview is a very good common sense and how to get a good handle on the mental side of player devleopment.

MAR-27-13

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Coach Kriese interviews Virgil Christian, USTA director of Collegiate and community tennis. The main focus of the interview hits upon the elements of tennis in the USA that have not been explored yet. These are High School Tennis, community tennis and rural tennis. Christian goes into great detail of how the USTA is promoting College tennis and supporting those teams that recruit and develop American born tennis players. Christian has a background as a college coach, a community tennis devleopment leader and has worked in player development for many years. His energy to help USA tennis is very contagious and attractive for the tennis public. This is a very upbeat interview that gives great hope for the future of American tennis.

MAR-20-13

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Chuck Kriese interviews Coach Dan Vonk about High School and Community Tennis in the USA. Coach Vonk is a former National Coach of the year. He has been a pioneer in the area of community tennis devopment for rural areas. His programs in south Georgia have been role models for multiple programs aorund the state. He has gone well beyond his call of duty in that he promotes tennis in some of his rival schools and for communities that he actually competes against. He talks about his frustration in not being able to get his own players enough tournament to play as the USTA point system has crippled multiple tournaments throughout the US rural area. The point system actually awards tournament point to only those tournaments that are sanctioned and follow the rules put out by the USTA. These events are usually just put together in Urban areas in todays tennis arenas. This informitive discussion gives every listener great insights into how we are holding back our own development in so many areas of the country.

MAR-13-13

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Coach Chuck Kriese interviews Coach Mark Bey of Chicago. Mark has been one of the top US junior development coaches in the country for over 20 years. Mark has coached a combined 60+ junior players to Gold, Silver or Bronz ball finishes in national events. Mark is also a member of the USTA national junior commpetition committee. He gives great insights to the inner workings of junior tennis today. His ideas are refreshing but are also quite clear to the listener as he is otuspoken on each and every topic. This candid interview is something that every junior player and their parents can learn something from.

MAR-06-13

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Coach Kriese interviews Frank Costello and Pat Etchiberry on aspects of physical training of the modern day tennis player. Coach Costello earned his fame from the coaching of such greats as Olympic Champion Rinaldo Nyamia and being the director of strength and fitness for the Washington Capitols Hockey team. He was also a National champion High Jumper at the Unviersity of Maryland and has been training tennis players and otehr athletes to top sports careers for nearly 4 decades. Coach Kriese also plays a recent interview of Pat Etchiberry, widely recognized as the #1 fitness trainer for tennis in the world. Pat has coached over 40 Grand-Slam championships during his career. This program is a great learning experience for every tennis player that wants to know what it takes to be their best in the area of fitness and training.

FEB-27-13

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With guest: Lamar Daniel Lamar Daniel was the author and the chief consultant for nearly all Title IX legislation during the 1990's and early 2000s. His job was to travel to Universities throughout the coutnry and to make sure that each was operating within the law in their approach to the federal law called Title IX. He worked with virtually every NCAA conference in the country and there is no person in the United States that knows more about this history changing legislation of Collegiate Sport. Daniel is retired now and lives in Georgia. He is able to speak very candidly and openly in this interview about the impact that Title IX had on all sports programs in the United States. This legislation has shown over the years to be of very good intent, but in many cases it has been very poorly implemented with an indirect negative impact that has caused the dropping of many sports programs for men throughout the country. Daniel talks about the direct and indirect outcomes of the legislation that changed American Sports forever. Coach Kriese considers this interview one of the best of the year as it gives the inside look into College athletics and its dramatic change over the past 25 years.

FEB-20-13

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Coach Kriese interviews Mr. Dwight Rainey, the former Sr.Associate Athletics director at Clemson University. Rainey served in many capacities during his tenure at Clemson both administratively and on the coaching side of things as well. His insights about college athletics are deep and impacting as his work spanned over 30 years during the most dramatic time of change in the history of college athletics. He tells of the behind the scene problems with sports after the implementation of Title IX and the dramatic cost and expenses of conducting sports in a major sports environment of a university. His depth of knowledge is unmatched as he explains many complex issues in a very basic manner that every listener can understand. Dwight Rainey is currently retired and his interview is straightforward and candid. This is a great interview for all parents and athletes who are interested in collegiate athletics.

FEB-13-13

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Coach Kriese interviews one of the creators and innovators in the revolutionary teaching program called "GRIPS"...... Aaron Fox and Craig Signarelli created the 'Grips Program' 8 years ago after they accidentally found a great teaching tool for one of their students. They patterned the same approach taken with Karate Training and used different colored Grips on youngsters tennis rackets to show the improvement in skill acquisition and learning in the game of tennis. This program is being used around the world and is geceiving raved reviews; however,,,,,it is just as well receiving a bit of friction by established organizations as they see it as a rival to long-standing programs that promote systems over the Childs own independent initiative and desire to learn. This interview speaks to this contrasting approach to learning and applauds the independent minded approach that Fox and Ciggarelli have established as inovators. You can receive information about the 'Grips Program' by going to www.gripsprogram.com

FEB-06-13

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Guests this week on 'American Tennis with Chuck Kriese' are Coach Bob McKinley and Playing Greats, Brian Gottfried and Dick Stockton. These three tennis Icons represent and talk fondly about their Coaching Mentor and former Trinity University Coach, Clarence Mabry. One of the Greatest Collegiate Coaches of All time has passed away this week. Coach Kriese has dedicated his entire show to the memory of Clarence Mabry. Coach Mabry was the coach at Trinity University for 18 years starting in 1958. His teams finished in the final 4 17 times during that time and won the NCAA championship in 1972. This show is very powerful and impacting as these three tennis legends give personal insights and wisdoms from their great coach. It is a hope that this show will be listened to often over the coming years to remember Coach Clarence Mabry and his wonderful contributions to the game and to hundreds of players and coaches over the years.

JAN-30-13

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Coach Chuck Kriese interviews Vesa Ponkka, 2011 USOC National Coach of the Year and the Director of Tennis at the Junior Tennis Champions Center of College Park, Maryland. This extraordinary interview touches multiple aspects of what it takes for a player to make the journey to Champion. Ponkka, along with Frank Salazar, has been responsible for the development of 27 US national champions during the past 13 years and has developed the top training program in the United States and perhaps the world. His work is a no-nonsense and total-player development process that develops players from the inside-out. He gives the A-Z approach to mentoring for long term development and talks passionately about the importance of coaching inspiration in the player education process. This very informative interview is thought-provoking and gives great insights to what is necessary for parents/coaches/players to know about the entire journey and process of seaching out excellence. A fantastic interview.

JAN-23-13

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Coach Chuck Kriese interviews Brian Smith. Brian and Jeff Smith ( a son/father team in Central Indiana) have gained notoriety from years of solid work with juniors. They have been an in-the-trenches pair that have been responsible for State Champions, National Champions and Professional players. Brian gives some of his tips about a no-short-cut approach to bringing youngsters along from start to finish. Coach Kriese heralds his independent approach to teaching as the most important freedom that each and every coach has in the United States of America.

JAN-16-13

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Coach Chuck Kriese interviews Lynn Morrell and Indiana University Coach Randy Bloemendaal.  Lynn Morrell has a very unique mentoring program based in the Baltimore area but which is conducted throughout the USA called "Kids Play for Good".  She gives great insights into the needs for mentoring and how tennis is a first line opportunity to help get youngsters connected with leadership training and how it is so much deeper than just competition.   Coach Randy Bloemendaal gives his deep insights into the problems facing Collegiate tennis today as the system of college tennis itself has drifted from a developmental approach to one of quick-fix gimmicks to try to get more people watching the sport.   He gives a comprehensive plan that could make college tennis a great spectator sport while preserving the integrity of its necessary and wonderful developmental system.  Dr. Mike Krendodle joins the show with some insights as well.

JAN-09-13

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Coach Chuck Kriese interviews Coach Lin Loring and Coach Randy Bloemendaal of Indiana University. Lin Loring has served for many years on the executive committee of collegiate tennis (the ITA). Coach Loring gives a recount of the ITA's move over the Christmas Break to go to an abbreviated match system, which was a disregard to the 10,000+ signatures were in protest of such a move in June of 2012. He explains how the ITA board felt that they had to go ahead with some kind of an adjustment in response to coaches concernas at last years ITA meetings. Coach Bloemendaal disagrees with this assessment and brings forward soem ideas that he feels would be better in light of the overwhelming signature list of summer of 2012. This show shares great insights from both points of view.

JAN-02-13

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Coach Chuck Kriese interviews Dr. Jim Poole, the leading expert in North Carolina in the fireld of ADD-Adhd in children. Dr. Poole is director and owner of a program that works with these children called "Fastbraiin"... His website is www.fastbraiin.com His approach for treatment is fromt he place where these presumable liabilities might actually be assets to success in sport and school as well. He takes the same approach from the popular book, "The Edison Gene" where ADD is actually looked at as a common advantage that very gifted individuals have. He talks in depth about the treatment of ADD-Adhd with treatments such as Music therapy; Diet; Exercise; counseling and much more before going the route of prescription drugs.

DEC-26-12

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Coach Chuck Kriese gives his "Christmas 2012 Wish List of 12 Tennis Goals" ... This list is composed of those multiple approaches Coach Kriese believes would make an immediate and deep impact for the prosperity of tennis and all American Tennis players in 2013 and beyond. His focus includes changes back to simple fundamentals for College programs; USTA incentives for those that are excellent and ways of getting away from the beauracracy of top-down management to bottom-up incentives; a re-emphysis on doubles for juniors; a return to traditional scoring systems for developmental purposes; freedom for all-instructional approaches as directed by each individual coach and much much more.

December 19, 2012

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Coach Chuck Kriese interviews touring 'Journeyman Professional Nathan Thompson' about his journey as a professional player from 2005-2010. Thompson won 15 futures events on the professional tour and reached a career high of 323 for his efforts. As this is not a high number when most look a the top players, this was the #23rd ranked player in the USA at the time and in all other sports Thompson would have become a millionaire and a National Celebrity. He explains this tough journey and travel of 32 countries during his career and many of the ups and downs in trying to sustain his travel, training and basic living on the tour. This is a very educational and entertaining video for any youngster who has professional aspirations. Thompson left the tour in 2010 to become a coach at the Junior Champions Center in College Park, Maryland.

December 12, 2012

With guest: Former collegiate coaching great Jerry Simmons.

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Coach Chuck Kriese interviews Hall-of-Fame Collegiate Coach Jerry Simmons. Coach Simmons was one of the winningest coaches in the history of NCAA tennis and 2nd overall in the history of the Southeastern Conference. Coach Simmons goes into great depth about his career from his humble beginning as a volunteer coach at South West Louisiana in Lafayette, Louisiana. His unconditional methods of coaching are infamous and gave him great notoriety for innovation and excellence. He has 16 teams in top 10 in USA and was known as a great developer of talent. He was the founder of the ITF circuits in the USA for Juniors and was instrumental at getting many USA youngsters onto the international scene with their playing careers. His insights and lessons are quite entertaining and educational.

December 5, 2012

With guest: Former ITF director, international coach, clinician, and tennis ambassador Doug McCurdy.

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Coach Chuck Kriese interviews Doug McCurdy. A wealth of experience and information is given on this program by one of the teaching/coaching masters of all time. There are few people in the history of Tennis that have traveled the world more to teach and to coach than Doug McCurdy. Doug was originally one of the pioneers of USTA tennis coaching as he worked for years with the USTA education and research center. he was hired to do the same type of work around the world as he was selected to be director of the ITF in the 1980s. He traveled the world as a 'pied Piper' for tennis and as an instructional expert. He literally took tennis to hundreds of coutnries that would never have had tennis had it not been for his and the ITF initiative. Doug was hired back to the USTA in the 1990s as director of player development. Under his guidance, the US experienced a resurgence of tennis on the professional scene. He has since traveled the world as an expert in tennis teaching and setting up great progams of learning and coaching for federations. On this 'American Tennis with Chuck Kriese' program, Doug talks about his experiences and all that he has done in the world of tennis teaching and coaching. he also gives valuable insights into what is needed for America to get back on top in the competitive tennis world.

November 28, 2012

With guest: John Eagleton, championship coach.

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On this week's 'American Tennis with Chuck Kriese' Coach Kriese's guest is John Eagleton, former professional player and now director of a popular high performance training center in Florida. John has recently written a much anticipated book on the modern methods and movement and strokework used by the top professionals of today's game. John came to the United States originally as a scholarship athlete at the Univesity of Miami. John is a native of South Africa. John gives some very interesting insights to the deicussion that has been taking place over the previous months about international players as recruits for collegiate teams. John stayed in the USA and has contributed greatly to the youth of America through his teaching and his coaching. Johns inisights are quite interesting as he gives his perspective of what would be the best course for the USA to take in areas of player development and the recruitment of athletes to play in American colleges. The interview is quite insightful and entertaining.

November 21, 2012

With guest: Mats Wilander.

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Coach Chuck Kriese interviews one of the greatest players in the game on this Pre-Thanksgiving special episode of 'American Tennis.' Wilander was one of only three players in history of Tennis to win two(2) grand-slam tiles on all three surfaces; (clay, Grass and hard court surfaces). The only other two were Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Wilander talks in length about his upbringing and how he learned tennis. His lvoe for the game was paramount as he describes his childhood activities and his basic early training. His excellence in Davis Cup play for Sweden was noted, but he is best known as one of the players that was able to adapt to multiple changes to the game and conditions over his illustrious career. Wilander talkks about his impact on tennis today as he mentors other young players and travels the coutnry with his 'WOW' Wilander on Wheels program to local communities. His insights as to the makings of a champion make this broadcast one of the best of the year for 'American Tennis with Chuck Kriese.'

November 14, 2012

This week we discuss foreign players in college tennis with ITA representative and collegiate coaching great Bobby Bayliss.

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Coach Chuck Kriese interviews Bobby Bayliss. Bayliss is the tennis coach and long time board of directors member with the ITA (intercollegiate coaches association). This is the fourth week of discussions about Foreign players occupying most of the postions in American college programs. Bayliss talks about the ITA postion and what the problems have been for many years in trying to put a 'cap' on the number of players that are allowed on each of the teams. Contrary to earlier interviews, Bayliss paints a grim picture at the chances of making a two player limit on all college teams. Earlier programs have been more optimistic about the chances of being able to limit the number of players from other countries taking so many scholarships and spots on teams from american players. Bayliss talks about the political structure of college tennis as well and this interview is quite informative.

November 7, 2012

This week we discuss foreign players in college tennis with guest National Champion Junior College Coach John Peterson.

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Coach Kriese iterviews John Peterson, long-time coach of multiple national champion Junior college teams. Coach Peterson discusses the postion that the National Junior College Tennis Assocation has taken in regard to the recruitment of foreign players to paly at the junior college level. The Junior Colleges have addopted a two-foreign-player-per-team rule and it has been quite successful. hediscusses the neccesity and the reasons for this action adn how it was implemented without much opposition during the past 20 years. Coach Peterson states that this action has been a necessity as the junior college programs were set up for local youngsters and for those Americans that needed this birdge-program to get into 4 year schools. The influx of foreign players came close to destroying the complete infrastructure of the JC system. The new rules have been very successful in resurrecting many junior college programs in the USA. This is one of a 4 part series on 'American Tennis with Chuck Kriese' that deals with the problems of recruitment of foreign players over American players for Colleges in the USA.

October 31, 2012

This week we discuss foreign Players in college tennis with guest Jean Desdunes of the USTA.

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Coach Chuck Kriese interviews Jean Desdunes. Jean is the former coordinator of College tennis for the USTA. The options are explored to find out how and when the USTA might be able to help with the problem of recruitment of so many international players to our collegiate programs in USA. Jean talks about the efforts that are made by the USTA and how this has been addressed previously. He talks in depth about many of the issues facing the USTA and multiple solutions that are being addressed already. The USTA absolutely is a proponent of US colleges being a training ground once more for players. He gives some ideas for solutions and his insights are excellent.

October 24, 2012

This week we discuss foreign players in college tennis with guests Brian Parrot, Luke Jensen, and Wayne Bryan.

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In this very popular episode of 'American Tennis with Chuck Kriese', Coach Kriese and Brian Parrot lay out the plan to help College Tennis become the training ground for America's talent once more. Luke Jenson is also an advocate of American Players getting the first shot at american scholarships as he has recruited american girls exclusively at his collegiate program at Syracuse. Luke, Parrot and Coach Kriese are joined in the broadcast by Wayne Bryan, who has been an advocate of americans first for college tennis for years. The discussions are intense and emotional as the discussion centers around ways to help limit the overabundance of foreign players on college programs. This is a great program for information and knowledge about the problems that keep American Colleges from being the training ground for top US talent as they had been in earlier years.

October 17, 2012

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Chuck Kriese talks with Coaches Richard Rays and Chuck Waldron. In this very entertainng show, Coach Kriese hi-lites the contrast between two highly successful tennis coaches that use completely different methods to teach and to help their youngsters through the maze of tennis growth. Richard Reyes is long-time coach from New York. His Manhatten and New Jersey based teaching and coaching has produced multiple college players and Richard has also coached on the ATP, WTA and ITF junior tours. Richard describes his day-to-day struggles and triumphs in helping multiple youngsters get off and running with their tennis careers. In Contrast, Coach Chuck Waldron has been a coach in the small community of Clinton, South Carolina for 35 years. Coach Waldron has produced 103 college players from his rural program and his population of country youngsters. Waldron describes also how difficult it has been of late to get players to the levl that they need as the USTA point system has really handicapped rural american youngsters from being able to advance through the rankings. He prefers that older systems that rewarded players who would win in their home communities and states and then were able to progress though the ranks. This very entertaining show constrasts two styles of 'American Tennis' development and how a coach can be successful in both environments.

October 10, 2012

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Chuck Kriese speaks with renown multidisciplinary scientist Dr. Ray Brown regarding the science of tennis. Ray is one of the most outspoken coaches and tennis enthusiasts in the USA. His unique insights about some of the Political matters in US tennis are revolutionary and exceptionally insightful. Ray talks about the consitutionality of the USTA mandate to implement the Green balls/orange balls exlusively into the 10 and under programs. He gives the legal reasons why the mandate is an overstatement of what should have been noted as merely 'a great teaching tool' for youngsters. Ray is a daily contribute to the 'We coach Tennis' website and blogs. He is a great scholar of the game and of the political field of sport and USA. This entertaining interview goes into areas that are much deeper than most. Dr. Brown is on the front battle lines of all tennis issues and his insights are deep.

October 3, 2012

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Chuck Kriese speaks with former top-5 world player and Wimbledon finalist Dennis Ralston. Dennis Ralston talks very candidly about his tennis Playing and Coaching career and also about his life after coaching. This very interesting interview gives great description of how he came up as a player in California in the 1950's and 60s and what were the necessary steps and opportunities propeled him to greatness. Dennis also talks about his disappointment with the direction of college tennis and the politics of tennis in the USA. He talks about some of the highs and lows of his own play and speaks briefly about his illustrious Davis Cup Coaching career when the US beat the then great Romanian team. He describes the steps of improvement that players need to make during their climb. This show is one of the first of many to start talking about the issue of foreign recruitment of athletes before the recruitment of Americans to be on our collegiate teams.

September 26, 2012

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Chuck Kriese interviews Kathleen Horvath.  Horvath is widely regarded as one of the best, if not the best junior girl players in the history of tennis.  In 1983, at the age of 15, she defeated Martina Naratilova at the French Open, which was the only defeat for the 74-1 record that year.  Horvath won 9 US National championships and played in the pro ranks for 10 years.  She is now the mother of 3 and a tennis-mom as well.  Horvath gives her views on junior tennis in the US and also some of the do’s and don’ts of raising and parenting an aspiring tennis player.  Her insight as  to leading without pushing are quite insightful and also her breadth of understanding of how to help the child develop his/her own dream and desire.

September 19, 2012

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Coach Dave Fish makes his second visit to “American Tennis with Chuck Kriese.”  The revolutionary ‘Universal Tennis Rating System’ is once again the topic of the show.  Fish is able to go into great detail of how the system would revolutionize and revitalize the game in the US.  His Concept of ‘Metro-Tennis Co-Ops’ are discussed in depth.  These local-based programs would revitalize community tennis programs and give a vehicle for each and every person in a community to be able to share play and join efforts, no matter the age, sex or experience.  One of the more interesting points is how Fish describes the breakdown and fracturing of tennis growth in the US as a result of ‘horizontal growth’ where the most wealthy get to play ITF world competition; the medium wealthy use the USTA national model as their vehicle for progression; and where the Universal System would make it possible for players to develop high level games locally as they once did 30 or 40 years ago.  His insights and explanations of how to solve multiple problems with US tennis make this a very educational program.

September 12, 2012

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Chuck Kriese starts the program with a narrative about the state of American Tennis and the wide-spread top-down management style. He develops the ideas of ‘empowerment of individuals’ and praises the Maureen Connelly Brinker Foundation for their Stand to the USTA. The USTA had asked that organization earlier to change their traditions and start using green (low-pressure) balls for their competition and later came out with a memo of potential sanctions against the MCB Foundation. The MCB Foundation stood up to the USTA and stated that they would stick to their own wonderful traditions and respectfully refused that Top-Down power-play. Kriese named a mythical “American Tennis Patriot Award” for the MCB Foundation in showing their fortitude and courage, and he also named a “Barney Award” for any and all organizations that would force ones will on another’s right to make free choices; No-matter where and what the Arena in ‘Our Free USA’. Kriese also played an interview done earlier this summer with Professional coach Robert Davis about his experiences coaching in SE Asia and around the world. His viewpoints are fascinating and uplifting as he talks about his work in countries such as Cambodia, Myamar, Thailand and multiple others as he has helped tennis to reach thousands.

September 5, 2012

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Chuck Kriese interviews two young professional players Reid Carlton and Ryan Young. Carlton recently graduated from Duke University and Young was a Clemson Grad. Both players are working their way up the ATP rankings. These wonderful men give great insights into what it takes out on the tour to try to make it and to keep their careers alive. They talk about the daily struggles to find ways to train and to find the funding to travel to their events. Some ideas on how the US system might be able to help young aspiring players to get on their feet and also some wonderful insights about how to persevere through hard times. Carlton talks in depth about the mind-set that a player must have from early in his /her career if they are going to make it on the tour. Young talks about how to surround yourself with the right people and the right ways of going about the day to day routines of training and getting ready for events. This show is a good listen for young and upcoming players.

August 29, 2012

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Chuck Kriese interviews Tim Cass, the Athletic Director at University of New Mexico. Tim was a player at the University of new Mexico, a tennis coach at New Mexico and Texas A&M. He has served on the ITA executive committee, the NCAA tennis committee and much more. He is one of the board members that was responsible for the NCAA rule change that created the firestorm of 10,000 signatures on a petition against their move to minimize the length of a dual match and change the scoring system of the sport. Tim’s unique perspective is one that needs to be heard and Kriese is very outspoken to many of the disconnects between the committees and what is actually happening and needed in the field of American Tennis.

August 22, 2012

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Chuck Kriese interviews John Roddick and is joined by Coach Randy Bloemendaal at the end of his show. The entire show is dedicated to the firestorm created by the NCAA tennis committees rule changes that came out this previous week. The reaction to the rules that the NCAA rule change was more than 10,000 signatures on a petition against these rule changes. Roddick speaks out very passionately as a college coach that is interested in training players and advancing tennis in the USA. Coach Randy Bloemendaal, of Indiana University, came on the show and gave his viewpoints as well in opposition to the committee. He restated his very interesting and developmental friendly ideas about moving the tennis season to the fall of the year and using the rest of the year for tournament structure.

August 15, 2012

With Guest: Two-time Grand Slam Semi-Finalist Tim Mayotte.

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Chuck Kriese interviews Tim Mayotte. Tim was one of the top professional players of all time in the United States. He was a top US junior player, an NCAA champion at Stanford, an 11 time final 16 player in Grand Slam events and a former USTA national coach. Tim gives very in-depth perspective of what is right and what is wrong in American Tennis. He explains the system in detail that he came up with in his youth and his college career. He makes the connection of his experiences in Junior and college tennis as very good connectors and training for his professional career. He offers some very good solutions and brings up some excellent questions that all in US tennis should be trying to answer.

August 8, 2012

With guest Harvard Head Coach Dave Fish

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Chuck Kriese interviews Coach Dave Fish of Harvard. The entire interview is done on the revolutionary ‘Universal Rating System’. The URS is a system that has been developed by Dave Fish. This brilliant idea is now being explored in many different venues as it allows each and every competitive player to have a rating (not a ranking). These ratings allow tremendous flexibility for competitors as players from any age, sex, league etc… The fallacy of our competitive structure in the US has been that we have segregated all players by age and sex and location. The Universal rating System allows many options that could multiply the number of players exponentially immediately. Interestingly, this system is being met with opposition by those organizations that head up tennis in our country.

August 1, 2012

Today we discuss the prevalence of international players competing in American college tennis with guests Craig Bell and Dennis Emery.

 

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Chuck Kriese interviews Mr. Craig Bell, Chuck Waldron and Coach Dennis Emery about Foreign Players in our college game. Craig Bell has written an in depth letter to Patrick McEnroe giving the statistics of how many foreign players are actually in all divisions of college tennis and the lopsided amount of opportunities that are going to players from other countries. Chuck Waldron is a highly respected Junior coach in South Carolina that has trained 103 local junior players into the college ranks before the influx of foreign players. He is strongly opinionated as those opportunities have dried up in the last 10 years. This is particularly difficult for hm to talk about as his home town of Clinton, SC has also lost hundreds of jobs to outsourcing at this same time. Formerly, Clinton was a hub for the textile industry, and the local college there, Presbyterian College, was known as a tennis power for years. Coach Dennis Emery, formerly retired from University of Kentucky, comes onto the show and gives a unique point of view that embraces the view of the other coaches but also brings up the other points of views for recruiting players as well.

July 25, 2012

Today we'll discuss tennis in rural America with guests Dan Vonk and Ron Schneider.

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Chuck Kriese interviews Mr. Ron Schneider who is the father of reigning Boys 16 champion Ronnie. This interview is quite interesting as Mr. Schneider has been the sole driver and coach of Ronnie since he was 5 years old. The Schneiders have lived in Bloomington, Indiana during this time and have never opted to go to a training academy somewhere other than this rural Indiana community to provide the training for their son. In this very interesting interview, Mr. Schneider goes through the process from A to Z of bringing his son along through the maze of training to junior Tennis excellence. This is an excellent program for any parent of an aspiring young player to listen to. The insights that are given cannot be heard anywhere else and cannot be read in any book or pamphlet. This program is a very insightful and excellent source of information.