Junior Development provides American junior and collegiate players with the opportunities to reach their maximum potential.  This mission is facilitated through enhanced coaching education programs, top supplemental coaching in men’s and women’s tennis and junior and collegiate competition and training programs. The Junior Development Division is comprised of the following departments:

Sport Science 

Coaching Education 

Junior & Collegiate Competition

To review, evaluate, and disseminate sport science and sports medicine  information relevant to tennis.

This is the mission of the USTA Sport Science Department.  Sport Science encompasses a number of different disciplines including sport medicine, biomechanics, motor learning, sport psychology, nutrition and exercise physiology.  All of the sport sciences play a large part in the development of a successful tennis player.  The following are brief definitions of each of the sport sciences:

Sport medicine – includes the treatment and prevention of athletic injuries and rehabilitation.

Sport biomechanics – deals with the analysis of human movements and forces including the analysis of proper and improper stroke mechanics.

Motor learning – studies changes in movement behavior as a result of practice or experience and deals with the process by which the human body learns movements and both basic and complex tasks.

Sport psychology – deals with the mental side of tennis and encompasses the study of human behavior within the setting of sport.

Sport nutrition – the study of the utilization of food substances during physical activity.

Sport physiology – deals with the study of how the systems of the body function and specifically adapt during exercise.

The Sport Science Department works closely with the USTA Sport Science Committee, comprised of 18 members who in many cases are both experts and world leaders within their respective areas of sport science.