USTA Player Development head Martin Blackman

In this week's episode of the SI Tennis Beyond the Baseline Podcast, Sports Illustrated executive editor and host Jon Wertheim talks with USTA Player Development head Martin Blackman. Wertheim and Blackman discuss the challenges that the USTA faces in growing tennis as a sport, including competing against team sports that have more of a social aspect and other barriers of entry for young players. Blackman also talks about his goals in his role with the USTA and the factors besides ranking that he believes are important in predicting future success for junior players: athletic ability, toughness, size, competitiveness and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.