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Wayne's World

March 16, 2004 - World TeamTennis (WTT)
Sacramento Capitals News Release


The Sacramento Capitals welcome back Wayne Bryan as their coach for the next three years. "I was delighted to sign my three-year deal with the Caps!" he says. "I loved my first two seasons with the team. We won the World TeamTennis championship in 2002 and although we won the Western Division last July, we lost in the finals in New York to a hot Delaware team. We've got some unfinished business now and have to bring that title back to Sacramento!"

In late February, Gold River Racquet Club in Sacramento hosted an appearance by Wayne, who shared creative coaching drill stories with local tennis pros and club managers. He had also spread his "tennis is FUN" message to two area schools earlier that morning with Caps representatives. "FUN: It's the thing we forget about in tennis," says Wayne. "The reason kids come into the game is for fun. They play sports for fun. A noted psychologist at Harvard said that a human being who plays in a fun mode learns three times faster and retains three times more. Wonderful things happen when kids are having fun."

Wayne emphasized to the coaches that kids must practically inhale tennis. "Stanford, the greatest college team ever, is within two hours of Sacramento. Cal is here. How many took groups to the Siebel Open in San Jose? You have the Aptos Challenger. Sacramento State is a great team locally. And doggoneit, take your people to those Sac Caps matches every time!" he says. "When the boys were 6, we went to see the L.A. Strings. Back in '78. We loved it. Wow. I was just blown away. We immediately came up with a WTT format for our juniors in the area, and grew and grew and grew. We have 65 teams in our area, there are 750 teams in southern California. Now it's nationwide. I wanted to teach team tennis. I wanted the boys [his sons Mike and Bob Bryan] to play it. All that happened because we went and saw it. They were able to visualize it."

Editor's note: You can obtain Wayne Bryan's book "The Formula: Raising Your Child to Be a Champion in Athletics, Arts and Academics" from TennisWarehouse.com or send a check for $29.95 to: "The Formula", 1774 Ramona Drive, Camarillo, CA 93010. Originally published by the Ojai Printing & Publishing Company, Wayne's book will be published and released nationwide by Kensington in New York in July 2004.

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