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In most other sports, there’s a school team and a coaching staff that handles everything from running practices to planning schedules to organizing road trips to paying expenses. When it comes to junior tennis, though, a parent and child are mostly on their own.
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“I do believe the game makes kids better people,” says Giampaolo. “Tennis is a great way of teaching important life skills and character traits—resiliency, courage, focus, problem solving, time management.”