Andy Fitzell Interview: Knowing Your Partner's Brain Type, Learning as a Coach, Serve Changes, & More

About this episode

Will Boucek interviews coach Andy Fitzell about preparing and improving in professional doubles tennis.

Andy Fitzell is the coach of rising US doubles stars JJ Tracy and Robert Cash. I spoke with Andy at Indian Wells to unpack how a pro team actually prepares, competes, and keeps improving when the margins are almost invisible. We dig into scouting, training plans, partner psychology, and what tennis needs to change for doubles to get the attention it deserves. Match-day practice and routines at Indian Wells The use of film for both scouting and technical improvementLearning doubles ...

People in this episode

Host: Will Boucek

Guest: Andy Fitzell

Topics covered

• doubles tennis
• coaching
• partner psychology
• training plans
• scouting

Keywords

• doubles tennis
• coaching
• partner psychology
• training
• Indian Wells

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Indian Wells

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