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What is Progression Ball?
We follow the USTA recommended youth progression system, with red, orange and green tennis balls and smaller courts for younger kids. Progression balls don't move as fast through the air and are easier to hit because they bounce into your child's strike zone. Smaller rackets are easier for smaller hands to hold and smaller arms to swing. By using equipment that matches the size and strength of the player, the benefits are immediate and within a short time kids are rallying, playing, and excited to keep playing. As kids get older and stronger, they progress toward standard yellow tennis balls.
How does my child move up through the clinic or comp team programs?
Your child can move through our Clinics (recreational track) or our Comp Teams (Competitive Track) as shown in the graphic below.
PROGRAM PATHWAYS PDF 8.18.pdfWhat is a Universal Tennis Rating?
Universal Tennis Rating (UTR) is a widely used global system that generates objective, consistent, and accurate ratings of skill in the game of tennis. UTR rates all players on a single 16-point scale, without regard to age, gender, nationality, or locale of a given match. All professional players have UTRs, as do all college players in the United States and many junior tournament players worldwide.
Players, coaches, tournament directors, tennis clubs, tennis leagues, and national federations employ UTR in varied ways. These include selecting entrants for, and seeding, tournaments; recruiting players for college teams, scheduling competitive matches with other teams or individuals; finding appropriate playing or training partners in one’s vicinity; choosing which tournaments to enter, and many others.
Universal Tennis enters results from all ATP, WTA, and ITF Juniors and Futures, all sanctioned USTA junior events, all ITA (Intercollegiate Tennis Association) / NCAA dual matches and tournaments, as well as results from a growing number of ITF national federations.
HOW TO DETERMINE YOUR UTR
Go to www.myutr.com and create a free account. From there you can look up players and see their UTR's. Each player has a profile on the website, with a singles rating based on up to 30 of their most recent match results in a 12-month period. These profiles include scores and competitors’ names and ratings. A player will have a projected rating or an actual rating, depending on how many tournaments they have played.
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