Long Island Tennis Magazine’s
Coaches Roundtable Discussion he Long Island tennis community is blessed to have some of the best indoor facilities and best coaches in the world right here in our backyard. Recently, Long Island Tennis Magazine spoke with some of these top coaches to get insight into their coaching/training strategies, what they look for in a great player, views on important local tennis topics, and a background in how they got into coaching. Even the best coach can always learn an extra tip or two, and the following article will provide all players and coaches with a chance to learn from the best.
T
Meet the participants … Howie Arons Cunningham Park Tennis Center Union Turnpike & 193rd Street Queens, N.Y. (718) 217-6452 Howie Arons is owner and director of Great Neck Estates Tennis Center and has been coach of the B.N. Cardozo High School Boys Tennis Team for the past 35 years. His teams have won 18 New York City Public School Team Championships, giving Howie 567 wins, the most of any high school coach in New York State. 24
Carl Barnett Glen Head Racquet Club, Home of the Early Hit Training Center 95 Glen Head Road Glen Head, N.Y. (516) 455-1225 This is the 10th season of Carl Barnett’s Early Hit Training Center at Glen Head Racquet Club. Early Hit is dedicated to providing lessons, groups and training in its comprehensive ALPS program. Pat Etcheberry has worked with Carl as an advisor with the ALPS training program. Carl has concluded that students learn faster when they have core fitness, flexibility and explosive strength. Early Hit not only serves juniors as the program features nationally-ranked players in the U.S. Open, 40s, 60s and 70s divisions.
Long Island Tennis Magazine • November/December 2011 • LITennisMag.com
Nick Brebenel (516) 852-0591 nickbreb@yahoo.com In the last 20 years, Nick Brebenel has developed three professional players who, at one point, were in the ATP Top 30 (Adrian Voinea, Pavel Andrei and Max Mirnyi). Those three players have wins over the likes of Pete Sampras,