Tennis Industry United Podcast

With the indoor season approaching, we talk to Joe Wilkerson, Vice President of the Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC) in College Park, MD about the strategies and solutions he has used to make playing tennis indoors as safe as possible.

Michigan indoor tennis facilities are categorized as “gyms” and remain closed. With the indoor season approaching, we talk to Steve Cook, Executive Director of the Greater Midland (MI) Tennis Center -- one of the nations top clubs -- about how they have dealt with the COVID-19 crisis and their strategy for the upcoming season.

Let's find out what Simon says! We talk fall programming with USTA National Campus Director of Tennis Simon Gale, who also provides insight on COVID-19 procedures and staff training.

We visit again with Scott Colebourne, Chief Operating Officer at Cliff Drysdale Tennis, to catch up on their resort business and discuss programming ideas for the fall.

We visit with Butch Staples, National Racquet Sports Director for Midtown Athletic Clubs.  Butch discusses his strategies for opening now and his ideas for programming given the uncertainty of schools opening up in the fall.

We catch up with Charles Smith, Senior Vice President and SBA Specialist at Eastern Bank Corporation, to discuss the changes in the loan programs introduced earlier this year when COVID hit. Find out details about the loan forgiveness process and what to do if you have not yet taken advantage of the assistance that is out there.

After the July 4th holiday weekend Coach Mick and Doug Cash check in with four facilities to find out how they handled some positive test results and prepped for local tournaments.

We visit with Jorge Capestany in Michigan, who just opened up his summer tennis camps and shares the challenges and rewards of making young tennis players “happy campers” again!

More stories from on court! We catch up with Steve Contardi, Jonathan Fralick and Jean Mills to gain insight on how things are going and how you might better prepare for opening up your facility.

We check in with Scott Colebourne, Chief Operating Officer at Cliff Drysdale Tennis about opening up some of their resorts. Also, details on a known case of an employee testing positive for COVID-19 and the steps taken to contain it.