How to Produce a High-Quality Recruiting Video to Get a College Tennis Scholarship

How to Produce a High-Quality Recruiting Video to Get a College Tennis Scholarship

College coaches who recruit you without having seen at least some visual material of your tennis level are rare. If you want to land a tennis scholarship, make sure you present your skill set in a great highlight reel. Today's Friday Scholarship Guide is about producing this one great video that helps you find a way to play college tennis.

Dominic Tinodi
2014-11-27
How to Identify Whether You Are Good Enough to Play College Tennis in the United States

How to Identify Whether You Are Good Enough to Play College Tennis in the United States

This edition of Friday's Scholarship Guide will introduce you to a tool, which will revolutionize college tennis recruiting. A new ranking system created by Universal Tennis Rating lets you compare the level of tennis in college to yours. That way you'll see within a minute whether you are good enough for a certain team or not.

Yannick Weihs
2014-12-04
How Many Scholarships Tennis College Coaches Can Offer to Their Players

How Many Scholarships Tennis College Coaches Can Offer to Their Players

If you're a tennis player on the lookout for a sports scholarship at a U.S. college, chances are you're wondering how high a scholarship you can actually receive. Today's Friday Scholarship Guide is about understanding the regulations in order to get you in shape for your upcoming bargaining sessions with college coaches.

Dominic Tinodi
2014-12-18
Top 4 Reasons College Tennis is the Best Choice for Aspiring Professionals

Top 4 Reasons College Tennis is the Best Choice for Aspiring Professionals

College tennis has long been an attractive option for American tennis players. Yet, not all choose college, but instead try to turn pro right away. That's even more the case for international tennis players, who bet all on their sport after high school graduation or sometimes even before that, neglecting their education. In this week's Friday's Scholarship Guide we will take a closer look at why and how college tennis is probably the best choice you can make!

Dominic Tinodi
2015-01-08
14 (Former) College Tennis Players in the Australian Open Qualifying

14 (Former) College Tennis Players in the Australian Open Qualifying

Following up on the Friday Scholarship Guide article last week, it's time for the first Grand Slam tournament of the year: The Australian Open. The qualifying events are in its final rounds and 14 college tennis players had a high enough ATP ranking for a spot in the draw. See below who's been playing, what college they play(ed) for and who still has a chance of making it to the main draw.

Dominic Tinodi
2015-01-15
4 Reasons a Good High School GPA Has an Impact on Your Athletic Scholarship - Friday's Scholarship Guide

4 Reasons a Good High School GPA Has an Impact on Your Athletic Scholarship - Friday's Scholarship Guide

Athletic abilities matter for aspiring student-athletes; and yes, it is the #1 criterion to sell for most of you. But, don't underestimate what your academic achievements at high school can do for you and read more on how a good GPA can open doors and options for you...

Dominic Tinodi
2015-01-22
22 College Players in the Australian Open '15 Doubles Competition

22 College Players in the Australian Open '15 Doubles Competition

With the first Grand Slam tournament of the year in its final rounds, let's have another look at the players in the draw. This time we'll provide exciting information about the former college players in the men's doubles event. With 22 out of 128 players having had some sort of college experience, 17% of the total doubles draw are made up of former collegiate players. We will also relate their doubles strength to an interesting ranking phenomenon, some great players have displayed on their way up.

Dominic Tinodi
2015-01-29
5 Questions to Ask College Tennis Coaches Before Signing

5 Questions to Ask College Tennis Coaches Before Signing

Today's Friday Scholarship Guide is about how to fulfil the ultimate dream of yours: Having a great overall experience at the college of your choice. For most students it's all about their undergraduate degree, student life, and other extracurricular activities. But for student-athletes, a major deciding factor is the athletic part of college life: college tennis. Read about the key questions to ask college coaches to find out whether you would make a good match.

Dominic Tinodi
2017-05-14
Why Leave the College Tennis Program Before Graduating?

Why Leave the College Tennis Program Before Graduating?

In Today's Friday Scholarship Guide we will take a look at a pattern, which often occurs once recruited tennis players start taking their bachelor's degree at college: leaving the college and thus the tennis program before graduation. In other words, some players stay less than 4 years at the university, where they received an athletic scholarship.

Dominic Tinodi
2015-02-19
ITA #5 Sebastian Stiefelmeyer: 5 Things I Love About College Tennis

ITA #5 Sebastian Stiefelmeyer: 5 Things I Love About College Tennis

We're extremely happy to have one of the currently best college tennis players give us his personal Top 5 reasons why he loves college tennis in today's Friday Scholarship Guide. You'll see that the team spirit and the mere fact of being part of a team in an individual sport like tennis have played a major role for Sebastian.

Dominic Tinodi
2015-02-26
College Dual Matches Part of the ATP & WTA Event in Indian Wells

College Dual Matches Part of the ATP & WTA Event in Indian Wells

As part of the BNP Paribas Open, 8 men's teams (NCAA D-I) convene on the final weekend of the event to play the 'Collegiate Challenge'. Ticket holders will be able to see some of the nation's best ranked tennis players including top 10 players #4 Julian Lenz, #7 Axel Alvarez Llamas, and #8 Yannick Hanfmann. The Collegiate Challenge offers an excellent platform for college tennis to gain wider popularity and is reason enough to dedicate this week's Friday Scholarship Guide to the action in Indian Wells.

Dominic Tinodi
2015-03-19
UTR Applied in Match Box Scores

UTR Applied in Match Box Scores

College tennis does not enjoy the same popularity and media coverage as football or basketball. Especially not when it's 'March Madness' and the focus shifts entirely towards basketball. That's why we should all be grateful for any additional coverage our wonderful sport receives, be it in print or online. 'College Tennis Today' does exactly that, driven by the general lack of information on college tennis. The web site has also adopted the UTR, a new level of play rating we're very excited about.

Dominic Tinodi
2015-03-26
College Tennis Videos

College Tennis Videos

In the last edition of our weekly Friday Scholarship Guide we highlighted the wonderful opportunity of watching college tennis action online. This week we'd like to give you some suggestions of another type of college tennis video impressions.

Dominic Tinodi
2015-04-23
5 Variants of Dual Match Play

5 Variants of Dual Match Play

Tennis rules equal tennis rules no matter what and where in the world, right? You gotta win 2 out of 3 sets and you'll leave the court victoriously. Well, not exactly! What might be a surprise or maybe even a shock for people new to college tennis, actually makes a lot of sense and is common routine during plenty of matches in spring time across the nation: college tennis is different, and we will explain to what extent the rules differ from traditional tennis, seen on the ATP and WTA tour day in, day out.

Dominic Tinodi
2015-04-30
No-Ad Scoring Rules in College Tennis Here to Stay?

No-Ad Scoring Rules in College Tennis Here to Stay?

Will no-ad scoring be the future of collegiate tennis? There is a clear move in that direction, and this week's Friday Scholarship Guide will take a look at what coaches and players think about the scoring format, which had in fact been college tennis standard decades ago. Does no-ad scoring really offer the potential to shorten dual matches and make it more attractive to watch...?

Dominic Tinodi
2015-05-07

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