King of Tennis Answer: Ken Andriano

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Since we think can might actually be in the running for quote king of tennis. Oh god if

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And I'm not putting you too much on the spot because you knew this question was coming

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But if you're king of tennis and you can decide if that's king of the world king of the United States or just king of Atlanta

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This is Atlanta's focused right now, but if you are king of tennis at whatever scale you view it

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Is there anything you'd change? What would you do?

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You know, I would change there's a couple things that I would change I was thinking about that question

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It's a great question and one is I would love to see

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doubles prioritize more on TV

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I think for the reason is most tennis players are doubles players and especially in Atlanta

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You're looking at Atlanta. It's Alta and Alta is all about doubles, right?

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So you will have some people to play singles, but you are limited in playing singles

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With your physical attributes, right?

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You get to a certain point like it is more difficult for me to go out at 50 years old and play singles at my level

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And be able to move the way that I need to move to do it

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But I can do it better on a doubles court

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So I think it doubles has been minimized when you look at it television

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You know even in college, you know, they don't it's like okay, they play three three lines and it's one point

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Right, I I want to see each one count

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I want to do that because I think more players it's easier to get out there and it's more enjoyable to get out there

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Play doubles sometimes than it singles

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It's kind of such an individual sport. I'd love to see I would love to see coaching

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more

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Integrated into it

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Being able to do that being able to help people that way because to me that's the love of the game

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You know, I think what I would love to see is I would love to see people appreciate a lot more of what you're doing

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With the ankle butters with the younger kids

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You know, I think we get out there people think too much about oh, I'm not it. I'm not a tennis pro because

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You know cardio tennis is not as it's not teaching

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It is it's getting people to to love the game and enjoy if you have a rack in your hand and a ball

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I couldn't care less what color it is and you're out there having a good time. You're growing the game

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A true tennis professional grows the game and and we share the love of what we do

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Right, and that's why I said earlier I go back to it and say there's so many different levels and my

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It's advices and what I did as as president for us pta Georgia was I wanted to see how how you maximize your skill set

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Right to figure out your path and it was all to me about pathways

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Do you you want to go into what you're doing?

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Right to where Bobby is running his programs to me as I say the private sector in the country clubs

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Right, so you have a certain skill set right my skill set may not transfer to be able to do what you're doing and be as

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successful as you are right and other people's might not be able to do what I do

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So find that out and try to figure it out. There's so many different pathways. We can go in this business

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So for me it's more about it. I would I would change is change how we educate people to get into that pathway

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That way we could share more love of the game