How much should we support tennis?

[Anonymous]

DC has been playing tennis at a rec level for several years i.e. summer camps, occasional clinics and weekends with Dad. Plays soccer at a high level (travel team) and also for high school. Has now made it to the high school tennis team, so we enrolled into some private lessons. How much should we investing into this? We have a younger one only doing tennis so know its going to be lots of $$$ down the road. Anyone in the same boat as us?

[Anonymous]

Congrats on him making it to the team. What school?

What is he playing? How much does he want to improve? Meaning, is he playing 2nd Doubles but has dreams to play 2nd Singles next year? Is he okay playing his position?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Congrats on him making it to the team. What school?

What is he playing? How much does he want to improve? Meaning, is he playing 2nd Doubles but has dreams to play 2nd Singles next year? Is he okay playing his position?

Thank you! So far, ok playing doubles but dont know what the next season brings. Question still is should we try to pursue a year-long training?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats on him making it to the team. What school?

What is he playing? How much does he want to improve? Meaning, is he playing 2nd Doubles but has dreams to play 2nd Singles next year? Is he okay playing his position?

Thank you! So far, ok playing doubles but dont know what the next season brings. Question still is should we try to pursue a year-long training?

I would say it depends on what he wants out of it. Does his school have a strong tennis team(thinking along the likes of a Wootton?) If so, the competition is fierce so he needs to keep improving to keep his spot.

Is he playing at a school where tennis is not so important? Is he playing first doubles or third? Is he okay with being good enough to play doubles on his high school team?

Does he have time to pursue year round training?

It sounds like tennis is his secondary sport. A reason to pursue year round training is he will be able to play tennis much longer than he most likely will soccer. But if he doesn’t have time for year round training on top of club soccer and schoolwork and he is okay with playing doubles, I’d not push the year round training.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats on him making it to the team. What school?

What is he playing? How much does he want to improve? Meaning, is he playing 2nd Doubles but has dreams to play 2nd Singles next year? Is he okay playing his position?

Thank you! So far, ok playing doubles but dont know what the next season brings. Question still is should we try to pursue a year-long training?

I would say it depends on what he wants out of it. Does his school have a strong tennis team(thinking along the likes of a Wootton?) If so, the competition is fierce so he needs to keep improving to keep his spot.

Is he playing at a school where tennis is not so important? Is he playing first doubles or third? Is he okay with being good enough to play doubles on his high school team?

Does he have time to pursue year round training?

It sounds like tennis is his secondary sport. A reason to pursue year round training is he will be able to play tennis much longer than he most likely will soccer. But if he doesn’t have time for year round training on top of club soccer and schoolwork and he is okay with playing doubles, I’d not push the year round training.

It’s me again. I would not pursue year round training based on tennis seems to be his secondary sport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC has been playing tennis at a rec level for several years i.e. summer camps, occasional clinics and weekends with Dad. Plays soccer at a high level (travel team) and also for high school. Has now made it to the high school tennis team, so we enrolled into some private lessons. How much should we investing into this? We have a younger one only doing tennis so know its going to be lots of $$$ down the road. Anyone in the same boat as us?

How much $$$$ are you already investing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC has been playing tennis at a rec level for several years i.e. summer camps, occasional clinics and weekends with Dad. Plays soccer at a high level (travel team) and also for high school. Has now made it to the high school tennis team, so we enrolled into some private lessons. How much should we investing into this? We have a younger one only doing tennis so know its going to be lots of $$$ down the road. Anyone in the same boat as us?

How much $$$$ are you already investing?

About couple weeks summer camp, one session of clinics for High Schoolers, and now weekly private lessons until season is over. Also plays weekly with a friend who takes year long lessons.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congrats on him making it to the team. What school?

What is he playing? How much does he want to improve? Meaning, is he playing 2nd Doubles but has dreams to play 2nd Singles next year? Is he okay playing his position?

Thank you! So far, ok playing doubles but dont know what the next season brings. Question still is should we try to pursue a year-long training?

I would say it depends on what he wants out of it. Does his school have a strong tennis team(thinking along the likes of a Wootton?) If so, the competition is fierce so he needs to keep improving to keep his spot.

Is he playing at a school where tennis is not so important? Is he playing first doubles or third? Is he okay with being good enough to play doubles on his high school team?

Does he have time to pursue year round training?

It sounds like tennis is his secondary sport. A reason to pursue year round training is he will be able to play tennis much longer than he most likely will soccer. But if he doesn’t have time for year round training on top of club soccer and schoolwork and he is okay with playing doubles, I’d not push the year round training.

The school tennis team is strong, but so far happy to play doubles as the decision to tryout was made over winter. I was thinking track would be the direction, and was encouraging it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC has been playing tennis at a rec level for several years i.e. summer camps, occasional clinics and weekends with Dad. Plays soccer at a high level (travel team) and also for high school. Has now made it to the high school tennis team, so we enrolled into some private lessons. How much should we investing into this? We have a younger one only doing tennis so know its going to be lots of $$$ down the road. Anyone in the same boat as us?

How much $$$$ are you already investing?

About couple weeks summer camp, one session of clinics for High Schoolers, and now weekly private lessons until season is over. Also plays weekly with a friend who takes year long lessons.

Are you embarrassed to say the dollar amount?

[Anonymous]

We used to spend $200 a week on privates and clinics for our DS, plus tournament fees (USTA) nearly ever weekend year round. All new racquets as he got better were always bought in pairs so there was a back up, strings were special ordered. Summer intensives at a good academy (players often went on to play professionally) was about 5K in the summer. To be good on a school team you really need to play year round and do the tournaments too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We used to spend $200 a week on privates and clinics for our DS, plus tournament fees (USTA) nearly ever weekend year round. All new racquets as he got better were always bought in pairs so there was a back up, strings were special ordered. Summer intensives at a good academy (players often went on to play professionally) was about 5K in the summer. To be good on a school team you really need to play year round and do the tournaments too.

I spend about 25K/yr for one of my kids to be a competitive tennis player, and it is relative cheap by tennis standard.

My other kid is playing golf and I am spending about 40k/year for him to be a competitive golfer. It will be over soon since both will be heading off to college this fall.

[Anonymous]

do you think your kid is going to be able to continue golf or tennis in college or beyond? if not, spending that kind of money is crazy. even if you do, i think spending that much money might be a little crazy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats on him making it to the team. What school?

What is he playing? How much does he want to improve? Meaning, is he playing 2nd Doubles but has dreams to play 2nd Singles next year? Is he okay playing his position?

Thank you! So far, ok playing doubles but dont know what the next season brings. Question still is should we try to pursue a year-long training?

I would say it depends on what he wants out of it. Does his school have a strong tennis team(thinking along the likes of a Wootton?) If so, the competition is fierce so he needs to keep improving to keep his spot.

Is he playing at a school where tennis is not so important? Is he playing first doubles or third? Is he okay with being good enough to play doubles on his high school team?

Does he have time to pursue year round training?

It sounds like tennis is his secondary sport. A reason to pursue year round training is he will be able to play tennis much longer than he most likely will soccer. But if he doesn’t have time for year round training on top of club soccer and schoolwork and he is okay with playing doubles, I’d not push the year round training.

The school tennis team is strong, but so far happy to play doubles as the decision to tryout was made over winter. I was thinking track would be the direction, and was encouraging it.

Given the other information in this thread, I would just keep what you are doing and not go to the level of $25k for tennis.

Face it, if he is on a strong tennis team - even with all the extra private lessons/tournaments, would he have a realistic shot at becoming a singles player on the team? He seems happy at doubles. Tennis is his secondary sport. Just keep doing what you are doing. No sense in investing a lot when he may not even make singles for this hs team.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congrats on him making it to the team. What school?

What is he playing? How much does he want to improve? Meaning, is he playing 2nd Doubles but has dreams to play 2nd Singles next year? Is he okay playing his position?

Thank you! So far, ok playing doubles but dont know what the next season brings. Question still is should we try to pursue a year-long training?

I would say it depends on what he wants out of it. Does his school have a strong tennis team(thinking along the likes of a Wootton?) If so, the competition is fierce so he needs to keep improving to keep his spot.

Is he playing at a school where tennis is not so important? Is he playing first doubles or third? Is he okay with being good enough to play doubles on his high school team?

Does he have time to pursue year round training?

It sounds like tennis is his secondary sport. A reason to pursue year round training is he will be able to play tennis much longer than he most likely will soccer. But if he doesn’t have time for year round training on top of club soccer and schoolwork and he is okay with playing doubles, I’d not push the year round training.

The school tennis team is strong, but so far happy to play doubles as the decision to tryout was made over winter. I was thinking track would be the direction, and was encouraging it.

Given the other information in this thread, I would just keep what you are doing and not go to the level of $25k for tennis.

Face it, if he is on a strong tennis team - even with all the extra private lessons/tournaments, would he have a realistic shot at becoming a singles player on the team? He seems happy at doubles. Tennis is his secondary sport. Just keep doing what you are doing. No sense in investing a lot when he may not even make singles for this hs team.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts-I am inclined to feel the same

[Anonymous]

You should not be spending too much on this given he picked it up lard and it’s a secondary sport