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adidas tennis: Making An Impact On & Off the Tennis Court

Sport has the ability to directly impact social environments. But should sport come at the expense of impacting our physical environment? Thanks to adidas, the answer is no. This week is Brandography at Tennis Warehouse and we are celebrating all things adidas! Today we talk to Nathan Roach from adidas and he explains how they continue to push boundaries and are currently taking massive steps to reduce their environmental footprint and in other areas of the world of sport.

• adidas Brandography: https://www.tennis-warehouse.com/brandography/
• PARLEY: https://www.parley.tv/

 

Nathan Roach, Senior adidas Tennis Category Manager, joins us as we talk about the massive steps the brand is taking to be a sustainable company. With goals to have 100% recycled polyester materials by 2024, he explains the shifts the company has gone through and the steps they are taking to help save the world for generations of tennis players to come. With Parley and Prime Blue, tennis fans and players can begin to do their part by wearing recycled materials on and off the court! He also speaks about the She Breaks Barriers initiative adidas has implemented to continue to encourage female athletes to get out and play!

 

And, this week only, Tennis Warehouse will match 5% of your adidas order and donate it to the Parley Foundation -- simply use "PODCAST" at Checkout!

 

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Tennis Science Talk: Power Potential Explained

We are back at it as we join our in house Tennis University Professor, Crawford Lindsey, and string guru, Jonathan Wolfe, as they get into the nitty gritty of power potential! Bring your calculators and scratch paper as we help you tap into defining powerful potential and why that's important when selecting your next racquet!

In this episode we dive deeper into defining power potential and explaining how YOU can find the most powerful racquet that you can swing.

 

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Mark Weil: The Ups & Downs of Tennis Academy Life and Why Grigor Trained at Weil

Mark Weil tells us all about how he dreamt up the Weil Tennis Academy...an academy that even Grigor Dimitrov has spent time training at! Founded in 1997 in Ojai, CA Weil was the first full-time boarding school and academy on the West Coast. He talks to us about his passion for tennis, why he created what he did and all the ups and downs in between. Learn the traits he looks for in players and his best, and worst moments as the founder and Director of the Weil Academy.

Weil Academy: www.weilacademy.com

Weil on Instagram: www.instagram.com/weilacade

They have trained and placed over 400 US and international students in prestigious American universities. In 2019, the Weil Academy is considered by many to be one of the most successful full time, high performance academies and they have a reputation of not only placing the most players into college programs of their choice, but also preparing these players for success at the college level. Mark Weil chats with us about how he got started in tennis, how he began the Weil Academy, what sort of players he looks for and the key traits of successful academy kids.

 

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WTA's Hayley Carter: Top 35 Tennis Player & Tour "Geek" Explains the Untold Story of Dealing With Illness on Tour

Recently, Hayley Carter, broke into the top 100 on the WTA Doubles Tour and just won her first Grand Slam career match last week at the US Open. She also has been navigating her tennis career with an unknown illness and has found it isn't always easy to break through on the WTA Tour...especially when she doesn't get cleared to compete. There's no doubt, this young lady with great hands has seen lots of success on the tennis court as a junior player, a collegiate standout and now a  top player on the ITF circuit. As you will hear, she is well spoken, incredibly smart, a self-proclaimed nerd, a hard worker on and off the court and a Bethanie Mattek-Sands fan girl! 

 

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SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7aCFGNA2VnSOJus9qM2jrx

STITCHER: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=453304&refid=stpr

Happy Hitting!