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On the 159th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith has a conversation with Jensen Rideout. Jensen is a twenty-one-year-old tennis teacher from Salt Lake, Utah.

Steve stated that posting Jensen’s podcast during the US Open is appropriate and significant. Steve’s point is simple, American tennis needs more upcoming young tennis teachers with Jensen’s values, knowledge, and communication skills. US tennis needs young coaches teaching young students with integrity and competency.

As an added bonus, Jensen sings America’s national anthem at the end of the podcast. Wow!

On the 158th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Dave Watts and Steve Smith exchange questions.

Dave and his family live in San Antonio. He is the head men’s and women’s tennis coach at Our Lady of the Lake University. He is also the head professional at the Blossom Athletic Center. To make an understatement, Dave Watts loves tennis.

Like always, there are a number of golden nuggets from this episode to add to one’s tennis treasure chest. There are also a few laughs over a hypothetical dinner party to address ways to improve American tennis.

In this episodeOn the 157th episode of the GreatBase Tennis Education (GBTE) podcast, Steve Smith has a long, long conversation with Andy Fitzell. The two have worked on a wide variety of tennis projects for the last twenty years. Andy initially set up the GBTE...

The 156th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast is a milestone. We have presented a weekly podcast for three years.

We aim to help tennis, and on this podcast, Steve Smith and Ivan Ozerets ask for financial help.

GreatBase Tennis will continue to provide free educational tennis content. We would like those who find our content beneficial to consider contributing a minimum of $10 on a recurring monthly basis.

Besides starting a financial campaign with this week’s episode, Steve and Ivan discuss several relevant issues that would be of interest to those genuinely concerned about tennis’ growth and welfare.

On the 155th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith interviews Constantinos Alevizopoulos. The two have never met in person. The young tennis coach from Greece first met Steve by studying a technical training tape and then thoroughly studying the free educational content provided by GreatBase via the Internet.

The bulk of their conversation is about Stefanos Tsitsipas. Constantinos has an experience that so, so few have in tennis. He experienced being around a top-five ATP player during the player’s formative years. After all, perhaps only a percent of a percent of a percent climb the ladder of pro tennis to such an elite level. Both Constantinos and Stefanos were taught by Giorgos Fountoukos, who used Vic Braden’s educational materials as a resource.

On the 154th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith interviews Greg Patton. Coach Patton is 70 years young and has 50-plus years of experience to share. In a perfect world, Greg’s passion and love for tennis is placed in a bottle and everyone drinks the Patton Potion. The liquid is magical and gets everyone fired up about tennis.

The human spirit, altruism, team building, family, top juniors, college tennis, world team tennis, and much, much more are covered.

Listeners will love to listen to Greg. Tune in, sit back, and enjoy.

On the 153rd episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Dave Anderson and Andre Barbosa join Steve Smith. Collectively, the three have over a hundred years of tennis teaching and coaching experience.

Their conversation covers the gamut; touching upon a wide variety of topics.

We are confident that our listeners will be able to add at least a few more golden nuggets to their tennis treasure chest by tuning in.

On the 152nd episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith has a conversation with Jim Rogers. The Canadian from Winnipeg, Manitoba has expertise in three sports: hockey, tennis, and golf.

Their discussion covers the benefits of learning on red clay, the golfer’s mentality towards technique, accountability in tennis coaching, the differences between European and North American tennis, chirping from the hockey culture, playing club tennis in Germany, and much more.

On the 151st episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith interviews Nicole Erickson. She is a Mental Performance Coach and is based at the FM Performance Center in Boynton Beach, Florida. She has worked with numerous players and coaches associated with Steve and the results and, therefore, feedback has been outstanding.

The focus of their conversation is directed toward her new online project, “The Parents Championship Course.”

We would highly recommend parents contact Nicole (nicoleeric@gmail.com), register, and complete her course. The course will help parents help their players and themselves. Ideas, thoughts, and concepts are shared that can be and should be difference-makers.

On the 150th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith has a conversation with Dave Secker.

The Englishman gives us an update on his team. To make an understatement, the Wolfpack have gained a tremendous amount of respect based on their rapid climb from obscurity to reaching the NCAA team final at the end of the 2023 season.

Dave also shares thoughts on Diana Shnaider, who played for North Carolina State this past year. The nineteen-year-old Russian entered college as the number 3 junior in the world and, as of this writing, is ranked 88 among WTA professionals.

As always, we hope to add golden nuggets to one’s tennis treasure chest and strongly believe listening to Dave Secker is a sure way to do so.