{"id":18650,"date":"2023-07-20T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=18650"},"modified":"2023-07-20T01:01:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T17:01:04","slug":"killer-coaching-for-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2023\/07\/20\/killer-coaching-for-seniors","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Killer&#8217; Coaching for Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rob Kilderry, the \u201cGodfather\u201d of Western Australia tennis, will host a squad at the State Tennis Centre for seniors (aged 30+) during August 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a player, Rob reached the third round of the 1962 Australian Singles Championships and was a member of Harry Hopman\u2019s elite squad. At Nick Bollettieri\u2019s IMG Academy, Rob rubbed shoulders with the world\u2019s top ranked players including Seles, Sampras, Agassi, and Courier. Rob was awarded an OAM in 2019 for his service to Tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Rob holds unique views on technique, views that were voiced thirty years ago and only recently being adopted by the world\u2019s best touring players. Rob will offer technical options related to the players physical capabilities. He will debunk such urban myths as \u201cpunch your volleys\u201d and \u201cdown together up together.\u201d\u00a0 Rob will challenge those players open to change and seek to improve their tennis standing.<\/p>\n<p>Squad sizes will be limited to maximize playing opportunities, and ability streamed according to Singles\/Doubles UTR. Players must commit to the four-week program.<\/p>\n<p>Each Wednesday will focus on a particular skill, followed by doubles strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Week 1: August 2 \u2013 Serve<\/p>\n<p>Week 2: August 9 \u2013 Forehand groundstroke<\/p>\n<p>Week 3: August 16 \u2013 Backhand groundstroke<\/p>\n<p>Week 4: August 23 \u2013 Net play<\/p>\n<p>Sessions will commence promptly at 6.30pm and conclude at 8.30pm. Refreshments will be available in the caf\u00e9 following.<\/p>\n<p>Total cost for the four sessions is $40.00.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To book your place, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trybooking.com\/events\/landing\/1090921\">click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u2018Killer\u2019 Coaching for Seniors\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kubafd_lzCU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Kilderry, the \u201cGodfather\u201d of Western Australia tennis, will host a squad at the State Tennis Centre for seniors (aged 30+) during August 2023. As a player, Rob reached the third round of the 1962 Australian Singles Championships and was a member of Harry Hopman\u2019s elite squad. At Nick Bollettieri\u2019s IMG Academy, Rob rubbed shoulders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":18655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}