Hey Leute, im heutigen Interview war Richy Waite bei mir zu Gast. Er war früher Tennisprofi, musste aber nach 4 Jahren Reha seine Tenniskarriere an den Nagel hängen. Durch ein wenig Zufall hat er seinen Weg als Tenniscoach gefunden und coacht heute Spieler, die in den Top 100 der Weltrangliste stehen und Grand Slams spielen. Viele weitere Einblick auf und neben dem Platz in diesem & den nächsten Videos.
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Aufnahme des Videos: 02.12.2023
Maybe still maybe like one Football club a little bit exactly like that a bit like a football club on on built up that you say okay at the beginning Of course you have the mass with them Children mhm um then you have talented children also with whom you get to know everything better
Can bring, especially for little Money and the people who then say okay they want a little more in We still have a hobby tennis area then yes the cooperation with deminem Father started that they say okay it are different Careers that you can find there with us
Can intervene that one does not say Okay, now you come to Alpha Bambini come in and say yes, good talented people but no, everyone can do that and just want the sport of tennis Bring people closer in general or the Children, yes, people are still children
Okay, so I think for the tennis area I’m top other areas that still cover or with you it’s just tennis, no, we have it The athletics area is also there We have Timo Bauer who also does it just received his certificate from perform beta so its continued
Further training and the Martin Dorn der For us, the athletic area is absolute Guru is actually designed like this we imagine that because he is also very very must say very in the tennis sector is a very successful athletic trainer ne who worked bench-wise with the
The top 30 was then with a Japanese woman There was also a Russian woman who was there also top 10 for a while so he already has I have a really good idea myself a few units with him I think you can in the area Athletics and tennis and physical therapy
I think any question you ask he has it There is no question where there is no answer that’s right yes, you worked with him too early game or can it be that I have also worked with him already said But when I was 19 I was in Mallorca
Really flew in and then we uh really accelerated okay really funny Okay, not bad, let’s go back to you so you have Alpha Tennis now What does it look like to you? Philosophy a bit because there is different trainers the different have approaches What is your philosophy, for example?
Now I’m okay now I’m 23 years old old but now I’ll take ZD Years younger come to you and say right I want to be a tennis professional or I am I already want to be a tennis professional to a certain extent improve myself and then what is yours
Philosophy how do you start what is your big picture of the player like or how do you see that I mean, tennis is relative small probably if you’re 21 and in the You know the tennis professional area on the go one or the other uh where one says okay, I know how little
How you play but ultimately how it will be for me let’s go first once, he’ll become one Test week let me come here and say play Let’s do a test week and it will work just observing, there isn’t much going on improved a lot in that direction
But just little things for now where I am see okay there and there you can you can But in the end, change the adjusting screw I’ll just look at all of mine Basics that are important to me for as yes tennis player what are your basics
The one where you say that’s me so if that the player cannot show or is unwilling to improve he with me he doesn’t have that for me So first of all he needs opportunities for me the will to improve that I just show the passion would like to improve
The next thing is, how does that work? Place clear he can he can say okay he he accelerates and here and there but there’s no joy in it or anything something like that but does to him He wants the whole thing to be fun the whole next thing is how open is he
He is stubborn and runs at the tunnel there along the little light or is he is He also opens a few other doors open to say hey well there is also I’ll also look into other ways very often and if you are tennis specific look at the quality of the
Punches and the quality of footwork is always extremely important, okay But that’s awesome that you’re the first You mentioned things that had nothing to do with tennis first the top three Things you said meant nothing with tennis not to do with tennis Of course not with tennis now
Punches or with the technique or with the execution knows but actually only with the way he is mentally together um yes, because in the end it has no head nothing works, you can do that best strokes have the best Footwork but if you’re not open to it You’re not open to new things
Development and if you are not open to You won’t develop yourself improve so where do all this and um if you’re open to the whole thing then you actually have a certain one Passion and these days if you nothing with passion Doing it inevitably leads to nothing not not in the long term
In the short term perhaps but in the short term maybe because you simply have the workload increased but in the long run you will be more likely harm and that does harm to both Parties are no fun, I would say And do you have also maybe so if you are a player
See, okay, it’s all clear, it’s there now the trial week and then he says All clear now, we both are fine we understand each other quite well and you say yes I give my GO because I have to Such a go can’t come from you Player we when I come to you and
Every time uh yeah, skip half the training then you also say you to your colleague I’m just messing with my time here If you waste then you waste your money and thirdly, you’re wasting time the partner who trains with you m exactly what what does it look like?
From the next steps so if you someone player a player have the is now fixed with you How do you go about it? Do you pull everyone over? So came a little bit as little as all I want Don’t mention any names now, but everyone have to play the same before
Same returns play the same Serves have the same technique same style of play nope, that’s it For me it’s not at all that they somehow say okay there are certain ones footwork patterns where I say okay those must work mhm er but I actually look forehand only on the main actions like me
I said before what are they like? Ball contacts because if there is one somehow 17 loops in it but always has one has good contact why should I the other you know if it if if it it doesn’t do any harm, it doesn’t have to be changed
Will happen if you say okay, it will harm but in development then we have to Of course something changes but if you say OK, you do the footwork thing and here and there plus the combination with the blow and it works yes yes then of course, yes, okay, well, um, because of that
Of in the tennis scene now as a coach you work you have a lot of well-known and good ones You are currently looking after or looking after players Maybe you can name a few names and yes like you like you with the people work because you are yes or maybe the difference between
I have no idea, you’re working with me now someone who comes to you once a week and plays a bit of tennis and whatnot you work with a well-known one Player who has no idea every day is on the page at least twice and which you 20 30 maybe 40 weeks in Year
You look after woah i.e. the player who only once This week comes I don’t have it I don’t have anything to say okay they’re just there every now and then either they are with me at the Academy or not mm Yes, of course there are always people who do
They say they come in every week Academy but that’s usually what happens always just in time for me to be there or the crainer takes over, so to speak Chris the Chris exactly right and with The other guys are actually me mostly on tour on the go that’s of course a thing
Full-time job, that’s where you really are 247 you have to say you are with them Players can actually do it on the go Everything happens to the legal supervisors rodionov Austrians and the Maxim better German they are both standing now Maxi stands 90 Juri ST 100 in the world
And then things can happen happen like Yuri last week Food poisoning at the tournament then he just needs help and Then there you are all of a sudden You’re no longer half a doctor, so to speak You are no longer a tennis coach You’re a tennis coach Nurse and I just try
Somehow in some direction er to save it from still performing can’t, so it’s at the tournaments relatively simple or simple that does that It’s all so difficult because you’re not the only one tennis coach, but actually you you just work to ensure that the one in the
Week can perform if he can now Then she has stress with her girlfriend at home you just have to find a way somehow that he can and says hide it Okay, I’ll make it this week to concentrate on the tournament because you You’re responsible for that, he’s committed to tell you yes hey
You see that I mean somehow I need it to perform Support um because I can’t do it alone, yes, yes So you can’t do tennis at all but you’re a tennis coach but that’s it one of many jobs you will then do who you have on the tour, how do you look?
What do training weeks look like for you? You probably had them both now you called an Austrian tennis player who plays Davis Cup himself German who also has a lot of Davis Cup plays well, we’re talking about players the top 100 are I mean that is They are absolute world class in tennis
So there are only ever 100 players in there are the best 100 in the world Time to look like training weeks there from like how do you work with that because so I can now okay I am now stupid example but someone who look at this now or see this
Listen, he thinks it’s good, he’s there too Professional but what does such a job look like? I mean you don’t have to show it now how a forehand works or a backhand or no, I don’t have to, but I do have to show him or or I have to show him
Let him feel that he feels himself okay, of course there is daily forms must make it clear to him that he says okay, that’s how can I do it always be in the best shape for the day current today there is yes that is actually most of the task and stuff
Then see the training sessions actually out of the tournaments Extremely high points are played um you only have problems when the player doesn’t feel so comfortable on it Tennis court mhm so first time when we say okay, we’ll drive on that now Tournament is the first unit Conditions test equipment to the conditions
Adjust what should I do okay uh we’re going to such and such a tournament a little higher than where he usually is we have to go up from the disposal we have to go down from the disposal we have to see that Course conditions different playing styles
Demand like a bit of the ball play higher with more spin with more um revolutions ball or is it accurate the other way round that we say we need more uh go flatter in the other direction play more aggressively more forward are of course always like that
The yes the conditions that we as a team I would say I would have to find out okay, how are your communications? I think they all have them at least one athletic trainer if not even manager if not even someone who is responsible for the mental area or
We are responsible for our heads there yours Agreements are there because it used to be It’s up to the tennis coach to decide everything physio just reports what he the player has to judge himself like you kreuzmann gissen but fyso has to yes execute that you the next day you can play again
What was the agreement? consultation with you Very good, actually, everything will be fine completely always agreed upon The whole physio team approaches me and says hey does that make sense now two hours at all today train, yes if he has any beliefs or in which We shouldn’t stress patterns today
Go in, it will be natural followed and that the whole team actually together uh that means he’s fit for the Tournament day or feeling good, both of them both things we want the best out of it physically Get players out and actually human and if human if you
Then gets the best out of the player you also notice that he is the best performs because he does it with friends okay yes yes we are you actually have You already said that very well human with someone because he is a tennis player someone is a tennis player but he is
Not a lifelong tennis player just like when he comes home in the evening his wife or girlfriend or whatever he is no longer a tennis player is something that I now also in the learned in the last few weeks or months have that you don’t always play tennis
You have to do something like that someone who has a job with the job When he’s done, he turns off his computer and then finenito is ready for today m what’s wrong with you when you stop what’s going on outside the square maybe not the coach side but
A bit of the human side There’s something about you that’s so important to you yes, what is there, what is important to me What’s important to me is actually mine metime is my time for myself where I actually switch off a lot I believe the boys too
Sometimes resent the fact that I’m like that I’m a bit dismissive, but that’s it just the time when I say I just need yes, I’m a lot for them other people in my job try for like I said before I have that their performance um can then bring is outside of
Tennis court that simply has the time for I need to spend it myself then at the golf course or say okay Race track karting like you like you like you said before, I’m here actually not like that bad so bad is something completely other and and actually also the time with
Friends okay with David my best friend that S simply spend time with it We used to go to the golf course a lot now of course he has a child now has become a bit less now I’m just alone in nature Always take a little outside with you
Sport but I always need so mine my balance away from tennis is okay yes if or maybe before before I would you come to the question? yourself, how would you describe yourself? as someone emotional or rather rational or like like like yes if one you as a person outside of
Tennis court takes how would you like it So if questions now arise in David, for example I would know that would be really shitty then say it yourself but if he is there would describe itself a bit like that how how would he like you there like that describe
Wow, that is a very, very difficult question how about that? describe I would I would claim to be relatively relaxed but just also a bit explosive like that Volcano okay um and passionate okay passionate about certain things I my with David what I already have have organized flying model airplanes
And fishing and everything else that with a blatant passion behind where we thought okay that is I can be normal, this is now almost professional level so always everything everything we did right there Level professional level no yes so so is So it’s awesome, everything was there
As I said, the model flies with golf These race cars then drive themselves drive the racetrack with ours Cars and all that just in a stint where the day actually where one day isn’t enough I can still remember one day Looked like this, we have it ourselves somehow suddenly played tennis
There was really training for three hours I think I’ll even still be a player then we went golfing and D the other guys said it was okay Football in the evening, we were still good Play football and then we have said okay now it’s actually 9 p.m I would still like K
Drive and we wanted to stop everything will accommodate a day of go-karting then nothing but yes then we were Hal Playstation has us there So run when you start something do it then you do it cleverly There’s no such thing as either full or not
Not because I’m too greedy, that’s how I am crazy ambitious because I there is nothing worse for me if someone better is than me in any Things if we now go outside of Tennis court was between you and David always a little bit competition or for example if he sees you in golf
Defeated, well, it’s not yet, it’s not yet happened or David is a very very good golfer is a really really good golfer now unfortunately actually stopped um We have a lot of each other raised mm because in the end it was Not that I was mad about it
He won but he is then came there and then wanted me improve or if I was good at something that we then give each other the whole thing gave tips and said hey you pay attention so and so it has to do that we simply wanted each other
We that the other one is still better will be okay so I really have with David we managed that there were none Resentment arises but and really Generally he is happy when I do did something well and I have I felt comfortable when he was actually in something really good was okay
Yes, maybe stick with it a bit in humans um if you a little bit on or if If you have someone with you now, tell me 12 13 14 years ahead of you and you could tell him so what what he Now, apart from the tennis court, no one
Somehow play on the tennis court should something SN just outside from the hplatz what you give him would maybe something you didn’t do right because you learn from mistakes um and yes what you just give him wouldn’t share which errors should do or maybe what he should do
Should pay attention to or what he should pay attention to maybe be very careful should my twelve year old me I would actually say one thing that he more Should have confidence in yourself not too good believer always believe that the other person just that
I want to get the best out of you Everyone actually wants it for themselves get the best out of yourself Most of the time and don’t be too credulous, okay that you just say okay to every tip assume people are just like that controlled that they say okay hey for
E.g. what can be good for me can be good for You don’t be good yes and I have I would still meem too many things twelve-year-old I say you do too many Things that others always want and so on not that you listen to what you do
Actually want to okay okay that was one Thing or is there something else? where you say or not 12 year old also 14 16 18 year olds or you have yes Sure, I think I have it too Seen here at the TC shooting competitions, for example People watch little children watch
So up to you yes the R of the professional trainers You know, they’re just watching you up and if you the two things would say he’s going home if you tell him he should take three Make cleaning trees, that’s where he goes Home makes three cleaning trees every evening knows mine
Yes, what would I do for the children? giving it away actually makes things happen again what you enjoy I would force anyone to do it in any way to do something because of someone else what makes you good is being true to yourself yourself like um I respect that, for example
Double players so extreme because there are yes Tennis players but doubles players there’s always something like that After all, doubles players are tennis players for most people it’s just like that Single player but they leave themselves there Don’t talk in and say okay just because I failed in the individual
Not that I don’t play tennis anymore There may be other ways to play tennis to play and for me that’s what I do will always tell the children is power What you enjoy isn’t there Afraid to say anything hey today I want to do that instead of always just doing what they do
To demand others from you because in In the end, you’ll get to grips with the matter much faster because you do it yourself make no matter in what respect Of course there are always sayings you have to do it, yes you have to do it to the child
Also bring it closer and say hey you that are tasks that are simply mandatory but everything outside of what I do too Um, it’s all becoming way too much Duty if you understand what I mean you have to do this you have to do this
You have to do this you have to do this now I have so many examples met where I say for many ways around you have to not you can you can exactly you must not you can yes and if you say okay hey I am
In terms of fitness, I’m not that good right now hardworking but now let’s be honest and tennis is fun for me and I I’m at the tennis court for 6 hours instead of 2 hours at the tennis court and You have two hours in the gym as a child
Just as much input yes yes because in Bottom line as a child what do you run jump, yes, you’re not going into that Weight room and d deadlift or something right right yes yes you do that yes, not everything, but you, you you jump room just run and watch what what
You do best and what you do best you can, that’s what you’ll enjoy the most, yes I’m working on it, maybe more important today than before um so in the past for me it was just me I think it was still a lot for you more extreme because I’m so close to it
The generation before cell phone social media and so on m there you just have no idea then I came home from school I then ate something very quickly went to tennis training and then it was time to go home quickly at not even just saying I do homework
I didn’t do it at all and then play football with the neighborhood children we thought we were playing Now we always make out everyone Today we play against someone else Bundesliga team we have against no Bundesliga team played But I know that’s just how it always is
Some team became ne was with us it’s a lot of baseball, football and everything else Then it was suddenly FC Bayern We were in Dortmund and then it went that was quite a lot and that’s it actually where you say it are already doing a lot of things right for
In your own way yes it yes cell phone and everything and anything That’s just the way it is today sometimes so yes but As a parent you can certainly do that too nor control it so that it is not urban will actually be helpful too I don’t think it can be that way
So that’s my personal opinion I don’t think it’s like that at all I think it’s completely normal now nowadays with which I have no idea that you are longer Cell phone is on social media and stuff I don’t think that’s the case at all bad, I think that’s important
You always feel like you do that I’m happy to just take some time out and just say I’m leaving now just on the golf course or something whatever kfahen or other people for Other people do it, for example, meditate, yes for the for the next it’s easy lie down and just relax
Read a book because you don’t always know that Maybe it has something to do with sport the is the starting point that you can simply Take a little time out I don’t know how you take it all as you see the whole thing, yes One hundred percent time off is extreme
Important regardless of whether it is a mobile phone, sports or sports So depending on the sport, one can It’s time off for an office worker is sport an extremely important break because he sits around all day and then does it makes his movements for us then
But exactly the other thing is different there MS man says okay hey what’s mine Maybe a break for two Playing for hours, yes, that’s one too I mean, it’s nothing nothing wrong if you do that of course you’ve done your job Yes, exactly m an interesting topic I think
You can walk around it for a long time Give input especially 5 I mean at It’s just the way I like it, I always like it to talk to people who are a little bit older a bit wiser than me You know, because I can always do that
Learn new things and maybe yes have the others Take a look at different perspectives front you are now 33 years old and training already not the creme de la creme in tennis but you train the best there is maybe not the very best but the best there is in tennis
Now if we look ahead a few Years ahead, what are your goals or so everyone has annual ones I don’t know for me it’s so annual Then set your sights after a few years your goals are and then so big big Everything as you imagine D as you then
With no idea 50 60 what you’ll do next yes, what does it look like for you? It’s already way too far, so at 50 60 Of course I hope that I am a golf professional am on the seniorour a fun aside, my dream in general would be it actually a little morotoglo too
Create the people that now I would let’s say in the more intensive sport of tennis are familiar the name morotoglo has a huge one Academy opened near Nice and that would actually be a bit mine, to say Dream here that player on world-class level can come here and can train however you want
That there is a facility where they say okay, that’s also portable for them okay or we can record them and that is not a disadvantage that none You have to make compromises so your one big, that’s my big animal, yes you’ve got that good, that’s that’s a big yes, it’s not that easy
So easy that’s why I have it too said littleo toglo because such a big one wouldn’t be possible for me in Augsburg So it’s portable and it’s easy too the wrong city or the wrong one I think the area needs one warmer climate like boliteri in floridano Nice and then Mallorca
Everything is always so warm goals or warm To opponents I just want to say okay hey in here Germany BZ Switzerland Austria Russia whatever they can do here too come to Augsburg to train Is there a facility where I say? can train train not only training but just how I feel
I feel comfortable there because I know that’s where I am lifted, yes, and there’s all of them there too all possibilities yes I want all of them Create opportunities for players at the top level and outside of so that is tennis That’s tennis, yes that’s actually it professionally and so on outside of
What are your professional goals? something where not goals goals is always a thing like that, you sit down and works towards it and improves then it may be exactly that none Guess I’ll be somewhere at 60 live in the countryside I have three goats and four cows
Yes, my lawn and my flowers know So not productive at all am outside the Tennis, definitely play a lot of golf It’s actually like that, it just gives me that such an inner peace that is one Passion that where I say makes me incredibly fun um and then it actually comes
To have harmony in family life where I say hey you it’s everything created for a harmonious family, yes you can also withdraw sometimes if there is somewhere bit exactly yes, sometimes too much becomes too stressful yes understandable okay m I think we do have been talking for a while now
Um maybe before we stop now uh, I already asked the chil Yes and Although there was an answer now is not represented in the mainstream um yeah, what’s your your tennis player the best of all time the goat because there’s a one
I think the debate has been going on since I have no idea when yes is possible and now it is yes actually the dokovic because he is on Blah blah won the most yes what what would your your player the best players of all time in So tennis like you said
Dukovic tennis is technical I think just not something that can be surpassed the successes he has achieved I think it’s tennis-wise absolutely best but heard in my opinion not just tennis for tennis but also humanity does this again and again at the topic and I personally have one share your own experience
Nal where I said where I was with him ed in Mallorca where I there where I I lived that for myself simply the greatest of all time is like how this whole thing has been dealt with because he treated me with so much respect and so also for my life
Interested and everything about it wherever I thought boy that’s number one of the world and he asks you things what interests you and you with that actually at eye level Have a conversation with your 19 year old and uh you know exactly he plays in
Two weeks of News Open and is in one set because he is currently number one World is not, I have to say I have who took Nadal very much to his heart so really with There was a distance between the other two I never had the chance, yes I Djokovic
I look at it every now and then You can do a bit of tournaments Watch what he does and see everything funny but the Nadal is for me but still in the Overall package the greatest for me personal because probably too through personal experience that I I did it with him, it’s one
It’s a completely individual thing just like when you how you how you someone finds attractive I can have one Evaluate the person differently as attractive you her assessed yes I think that was a very good conclusion rffan your greatest of all time yes R thanks for the time
Thank you, we are here with you in the Apartment so I really liked the couch she crazy, I think I’ll buy it from you That’s also really cool thank you for letting me be here, thank you that you took time and a half Hours almost talking to me yours
Insights give me a little insight into that to give what you do every day see, I hope it helps anyone further and yes, thank you very much again thank you for having me here could
