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Kamis Ahmad
Professional 3
All USPTA certified professionals have participated in an extensive education and testing process which included:
1. Completion of the Professional Tennis Coaches Academy
2. A 100-question written exam covering business and instruction
3. A stroke analysis and tennis grips exam
4. A playing exam
5. An on-court exam that requires teaching a private and a group lesson.
International Tennis Federation: Official ITN Assessor
Greetings!
Welcome to my USPTA personal web site. USPTApro.com has been created as a valuable resource for every tennis enthusiast. It helps me reach my students, friends, club members and potential clients to keep them abreast of everything in tennis, and helping the average player become a better tennis player. At this site, we are passionately dedicated to bringing you the most informative, up-to-date advice, videos, articles and reviews on a wide range of always interesting - and sometimes controversial - tennis topics that wait just for you.
Enjoy the website, and feel free to contact us regarding any questions you may have.
The game of tennis requires that you understand the basic fundamentals. When you learn to use the different grips and strokes you can become a good tennis player. There are no shortcuts in learning the game. The strokes take time to develop. You keep on honing them until you do them without thinking.
There is much to learn, though. Some of it may be a little dry and unexciting, but you can get your excitement when you next step on court and try some of the hints and tips we provide you here. 
"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error." -- William Shakespeare
If there are three little words that we could advise you as a beginning or intermediate tennis player, those are: practice, practice, practice. Work on core skills needs a great deal of repetition, in the process of which the percentage of inferior efforts gradually diminishes, before competence is achieved. And without competence there is little hope of pleasure, which is, after all, what sport is all about.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."- Muhammad Ali
Don't believe the negative message that it's too late for you to blossom. Trust - trust in your natural instincts, trust in your innate ability to learn, and most important, trust in yourselves.
Self-trust is the first secret of success. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Benefits & Enjoyment of Tennis
Tennis is a game that has the power to be so enjoyable and so fascinating that it can become pleasantly compulsive and almost addictive. There is nothing quite like spinning a serve into a corner for an ace, or punching a volley for a clean winner, or cracking a vigorous overhead smash, or gently floating a drop shot just over the net, or maneuvering an opponent off court and then hitting the ball solidly to the opposite side -- and sometimes all of these shots are executed within the space of minutes.
Tennis is always for pleasure. A great many people who play it are apt to forget that. Their forgetfulness is understandable, because there was never a game that could compare with tennis's amazing ability to make a person search for perfection in shotmaking. The average tennis player's desire to improve his or her game is laudable, as long as the player keeps a sense of proportion. A weekend player whose business is not tennis should not go at the game as though it were work. People who make their living at tennis must necessarily give it all they have, but people for whom it is a recreation should treat as a recreation."If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win."Walter Reuthe
This is not to say that some application is not necessary or desirable for even the weekend player. I think is a darn good idea for every player to attempt to play the game as well as his or her natural talents allow. With this in mind you must make provision to take lessons, to do some practicing, to approach your game seriously, to try to get the most beautiful footwork, fluid stroke, smooth serve and to outplay your opponent in a match. All this is fine, as long as you approach your goals in tennis with the proper spirit and do not try to attain unattainable goals. If you do, you are denying yourself the basic reward of this wonderful game, which is the rare enjoyment it provides.
Through tennis, you can maintain a healthy lifestyle. Exercising regularly is great for mood, health, sleep, weight control, muscle tone, and bone strength. The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and well-being. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually.
Tennis is a game that pays you dividends all your life. I suggest that you do some reading on your own about the benefits of exercise and good eating habits. I am sure you will be able to find some easy ways to make minor changes to your life style that can result in huge benefits in your game.
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. -The Buddha
If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end. -Julius Erving
It is not my intention to go into the details of proper nutrition. It is not my area of expertise and there are scores of books in print and online that explain the advantages of various dietary patterns for enhanced athletic performance. In fact, there now exists a specialised field known as sports nutrition, complete with growing body of research findings, that specifically addresses this area of concern. If you are serious about improving your game, and do not give much thought to the role of proper diet, I would strongly urge you to at least collect your own data on the subject. Keep a journal for a month and observe the correlation between various eating patterns and the level of your play. I think you will be surprised by how substantial an impact food has on your ability to concentrate, your energy level, as well as the enjoyment factor.
Get some sleep It doesn't sound exciting, but spending quality pillow time is crucial if you're trying to improve your game. "Your body needs to recover, especially after you've pushed yourself, and one important way to do that is to get a good night's sleep," says Dr. Michael Yorio, M.D., a sports medicine specialist in Lake Success, N.Y. That doesn't mean just turning off the alarm on the weekend. "Once you've started to fall behind in your sleep debt, it's hard to make it up," Yorio says. At a minimum, aim for 6-8 hours of shut-eye a night.
Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do. -Albert Gray
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now. - Helen Keller
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