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MY TENNIS COACHING PODCAST
Elevate Your Coaching with Expert Insights and Conversations
Tune into My Podcast for weekly episodes featuring expert interviews, coaching tips, and the latest trends in tennis coaching. Get practical advice and inspiration to enhance your coaching techniques and stay updated on industry advancements. Listen, learn, and elevate your coaching game.
The My Tennis Coaching Podcast is a practical, evidence-informed podcast for tennis coaches who want their players to perform in matches not just look good in training.
Hosted by Steve Whelan, coach educator, researcher, and founder of My Tennis Coaching, the podcast explores how modern skill acquisition, ecological dynamics, and intelligent practice design can transform the way you coach.
Episodes bridge research and real-world coaching, unpacking why traditional drills often fail to transfer and what to design instead. Expect clear explanations, applied examples, coach reflections, and honest conversations about what actually helps players adapt, decide, and compete.
This podcast is for coaches who want to:
• Design practices that show up on match day
• Move beyond technique-first, drill-heavy coaching
• Understand learning, not just copy methods
• Coach with clarity, confidence, and intent
If you’re ready to challenge convention and coach in a way that matches how players really learn, you’re in the right place.
🎾 Players look great in practice but struggle in matches? Download the free Practice-to-Match Scorecard and access the mini-course here https://mytenniscoaching.com/tennis-practice-to-matchplay/ 🏆Can ecological dynamics really be used with complete tennis beginners?Steve Whelan walks through the first twoweeks he would design for an adult who has never played tennis explaining how he scales the court, manipulates constraints, guides attention and develops functional tennis skills without teaching isolated strokes first.Why do tennis players perform well in practice but struggle in matches?Most coaching focuses on technique, drills, and repetition…But that’s not how skill actually develops.On this channel, I break down:• Why tennis practice doesn’t transfer to matches• How to design match-ready sessions• Ecological dynamics & constraints-led coaching (explained simply)• Real coaching examples you can use immediatelyIf you’re a tennis coach who wants players to think, adapt, and perform under pressure, you’re in the right place.📩 Get my FREE practice design guide:https://mytenniscoaching.com/serve-return/🎾 Players look great in practice but struggle in matches? Download the free Practice-to-Match Scorecard and access the mini-course here https://mytenniscoaching.com/tennis-practice-to-matchplay/ 🏆🏆 Join My Tennis Coach Academy:https://mytenniscoaching.comSteve WhelanCoach Developer & Researcher
About the Host
Presented by Steve Whelan
Steve Whelan is a tennis coach, coach educator, and researcher with 24+ years of on-court experience working across grassroots, performance, and coach development environments. His work focuses on how players actually learn, specialising in practice design, skill transfer, and ecological dynamics in tennis.
Steve has presented at national and international coaching conferences, contributed to coach education programmes, and published work exploring intention, attention, affordances, and representative learning design in tennis. His writing bridges academic research and real-world coaching, helping coaches move beyond drills toward practices that hold up under match pressure.
He is the founder of My Tennis Coaching and My Tennis Coach Academy, a global learning community for coaches seeking modern, evidence-informed approaches to player development.
👉 Learn more about Steve’s coaching journey and philosophy here:
About / My Journey