A friend who is the head tennis coach for a Division 1 University (Sunbelt Conference) in New Orleans, is offering tennis scholarships for fall 2008.

The scholarship for men is $11,000 and $ 22,000 for women. (to be in the team)

The requirement is students with good academic records and currently competing at high level international (ITF, ETA, USTA) events.

If you are interested, especially from east block countries like Slovakia, Slovenia, Russia, Croatia ect., kindly forward your queries and detailed biodata to Mr Burzis Kanga bkanga (at) aol.com and Mr. Zubin Engineer at zubin_dara (at) yahoo.com.

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1. What's new?
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a) Tennis beginners are typically taught to recover back to the middle of the court after they have played the shot. That's fine for that level of tennis, but if you progress to the next level, recovering to the middle is a big mistake.

How To Find The Correct Recovery Position - Tennis Court Coverage For Advanced Players

b) Thanks again for submissions to the What Have You Learned From A Tennis Match page.

This week's winner is Prashanta from India for his inspiring story:

Never be Depressed, Sad or Lose Hope

The second prize goes to Dave his contribution:

Tennis is a Duel

Prashanta and Dave: email me to get your prizes!

Thanks to everyone contributing their stories too.

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2. Tennis Thoughts Blog
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There are two new articles on the blog I suggest you check out:

a) The first one deals with having lots of talent but not winning. I've seen a lot of young tennis players face this challenge and hopefully my answer will make it easier for them to overcome it:

How to Make the Best of Your Talent

b) The second one is one most common discussions I have with tennis parents:

Should my Child Participate in Tennis Tournaments

I've seen the high level junior tennis and also the recreational junior tennis and these two levels are like night and day. Which one will you choose?

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Just a quick note: I'll be travelling back to Thailand in the next month and will stay there 2 months. So if there are any of my Thai friends reading this, please prepare some Pad Thai for me. ;)

And to all other readers - the newsletter will of course stay on schedule. In fact, I might make a few more videos in Thailand since the temperatures are much more friendly to tennis than in Slovenia in winter...

Best regards,

Tomaz

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