Clipped from Episode#:6 Shaun Boyce & Bobby Schindler
Bobby and Shaun talk to Kip Cobb about Atlanta tennis. Kip Cobb’s answer to the King of Tennis question has to do with simplifying scoring for beginner players. Kip doesn’t like the USTA lines for 10U tennis and makes his argument. Have a listen and let us know if you agree with him!
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Transcript
If you were the king of tennis, what would you change?
Speaker:Man, well, anything in the world, maybe a flat out here's here, you know, what we need to
Speaker:just abolish this completely. Yeah, we're nobody's king of tennis, so we don't get to hold
Speaker:anybody accountable. And maybe the idea leads to something more reasonable.
Speaker:Right, it's kind of two part, right? So one of the biggest things that is driven me crazy from
Speaker:being a coach, especially with somebody who's new to tennis, whether it's in mostly kids,
Speaker:but also adults, I would say is a scoring. I would change the score to a more simplified way.
Speaker:When you're trying to teach a kid, I love watching my little seven and eight year olds when we
Speaker:start doing scoring for the first time, and I go 15, 30, and they all go 45, and I go, no, 40.
Speaker:And they all look at me and they look over the pants and they look back at me like, no, you're
Speaker:kidding. It's a joke, right? And then all of a sudden you throw in the word, doose or the add-in,
Speaker:add-out. And from a coach's standpoint of trying to teach them the game quicker, that's one thing.
Speaker:The second thing, and it's more of a modern day issue that I have, is the new lines. I cannot stand
Speaker:the blue lines on the tennis court for the kids. I love the ball idea. Love the orange green.red.org.
Speaker:I get all that. That makes sense to me. I get it. The lines are ridiculous. They're confusing for
Speaker:kids to try to teach the newbies. Not just that, but if you've ever noticed, if you're standing on
Speaker:the blue baseline of a kid baseline on one side, and you try to look over and find the blue line on the
Speaker:other side, it is very difficult to do. So if you're the kid on the other side, you don't even know if
Speaker:your shot's in or out most times. You don't even know if it's that close. So that also bothers you
Speaker:because you could have a kid not telling the truth and saying out when the ball is not even an
Speaker:inch in, but a foot in. I think I know that kid. Yep. Oh yeah. I'm sure we all do. Absolutely. So
Speaker:those are my, I know that's twofold. Those are the two things. If I'm king of tennis, I'm making those
