Women's tennis 小旅行する program 供給するs education, （危険などに）さらす for 女性（の） coaches
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - On a 煙霧のかかった, 80-degree afternoon in April, Australian Open semifinalist Magda Linette practiced with Julia Grabher about 24 hours before each would 勝利，勝つ a second-一連の会議、交渉／完成する match on the green clay of the WTA´s Charleston Open.
While one of Linette´s two coaches, Iain Hughes, 申し込む／申し出d her 指示／教授／教育, the other, 示す Gellard, stood in a corner, keeping an 注目する，もくろむ on the workout while chatting with Lan Yao-Gallop. She is one of 10 members of the women´s professional tennis 小旅行する´s Coach 傾向 Program, which is in its first 十分な year of trying to help 女性（の） coaches break into the the 最高の，を越す level of the sport.
It´s not an 平易な path.
"There are so few 女性（の） coaches. And so few 適切な時期s. There need to be more 適切な時期s: `Hey, we have this. 利益／興味d?´ That needs to happen more," said Yao-Gallop, who 作品 with junior players for the Canadian tennis 連合 - 含むing, in the past, 2019 U.S. Open 支持する／優勝者 Bianca Andreescu and 2021 U.S. Open 走者-up Leylah Fernandez - but 目的（とする）s to coach プロの／賛成のs. "People need to think: `She is qualified. She has experience. And she has the passion for it. Let´s 申し込む／申し出 her a 職業.´"
Only 13 of the women 階級d in the 最高の，を越す 200, or 8%, work with a 女性（の） coach, a 人物／姿／数字 WTA Chairman and CEO Steve Simon would like to see reach 50%. One way, he said, is to encourage more 競技者s to consider coaching when they retire from playing. Another is to find ways to elevate coaches at lower levels.
That´s why Simon sought to 供給する the 肉親，親類d of 接近, education and visibility Yao-Gallop and four other aspiring coaches received that week in Charleston - and other 関係者s will get at tournaments in Montreal and Cincinnati in August. There are 計画（する）s to 拡大する the program in 2024.
Lan Yao-Gallop and coach 示す Gellard, 中心, watch as Magda Linette 準備するs to serve on a practice 法廷，裁判所 at the Charleston Open tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Monday, April 3, 2023. Yao-Gallop is a member of the women's professional tennis 小旅行する's Coach 傾向 Pr ogram to develop 女性（の） coaches. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
"If these five coaches who are here can´t get 職業s, 結局 - it´s not going to happen すぐに - then we really do need to 人物／姿／数字 out what´s going on," said Pam Shriver, a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame as a player and now a part-time coach for Donna Vekic. "We would need to 人物／姿／数字 out: Why is there a bias? But I do think that bias is disappearing 権利 before our 注目する，もくろむs."
Linette, for one, has never had a 女性（の） coach.
"I don´t think that would even occur to me, maybe because that´s how it always was," she said. "But that could change."
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There were 30 applicants for the WTA program, which began in December with classes at the U.S. Tennis 協会 campus in Orlando.
"We 手配中の，お尋ね者 to select coaches who have the best chance of making it on 小旅行する. And we want it to 始める，決める them up for success," program director マイク Anders said. "There isn´t a pathway for women to become coaches in the プロの／賛成のs."
Which is how Yao-Gallop, a 43-year-old from 中国 who now lives in Edmonton, ended up 影をつくる／尾行するing Linette, Hughes and Gellard - at practice, in the gym, for pre-match scouting and 地位，任命する-match 分析.
"I´m not teaching her anything about how to teach someone how to 攻撃する，衝突する a forehand or a backhand. She knows all of that already - and if she didn´t, she could learn that online, in 調書をとる／予約するs, in 会議／協議会s. That´s the 平易な part," Gellard said. "It´s the 網状組織ing. It´s the 兵たん業務. It´s seeing how things are done day to day."
At the 手始め of Linette´s 攻撃する，衝突する with Grabher, Yao-Gallop listened when Gellard explained in a low 発言する／表明する: "I´m trying to get her to start practice with more intensity."
Over the next 20 m inutes, Gellard answered Yao-Gallop´s questions, pointed out what to keep an 注目する，もくろむ on and 申し込む／申し出d a glimpse at his coaching philosophy.
非，不，無 of this took away from Gellard´s main 目的. At one point, he paused his conversation with Yao-Gallop to 配達する suggestions to Linette about returning an 対抗者´s kick serve. Moments later, Linette did 正確に／まさに what he 述べるd, and Gellard shouted, "Good! That´s it!"
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Iris Harris was born in Romania and 選ぶd up tennis at age 5. Her parents sent her to live with an aunt in California at age 10 in the hope of 調印 with an スパイ／執行官 or 収入 a college scholarship.
At 17, she turned プロの／賛成の. At 19, she tore a ligament in her 権利 膝 and a groin muscle. At 23, she turned to coaching. Now 38, she is a teaching プロの／賛成の at a club in Florida with designs on getting to the 小旅行する.
"Women 肉親，親類d of get stuck or put at the 底（に届く）," Harris said after she and another coaching 希望に満ちた, Yuliya Shupenia, …に出席するd a morning practice with Claire Liu and her coach, Chris Tontz. "I have playing experience. I have coaching experience. I need to move up. But some men feel 脅すd by it, worried we´ll take their position."
Harris joined the WTA program to learn more about coaching a プロの／賛成の, yes, but also to make 接触するs that could lead to that chance.
"The more （危険などに）さらす we get and the more we know people, it´s going to help make that 移行 a lot quicker," she said. "Hopefully it´s not going to take me another 10 years."
She asked Tontz whether it would be 承認する to email him a scouting 報告（する）／憶測 before Liu´s first match, with thoughts on the 対抗者´s strengths and 証拠不十分s.
"He was very open to it," Harris said with a smile. "And our 公式文書，認めるs were very 類似の."
The three coaches - Tontz and the up-and-comers - lined up 味方する-by-味方する in the 前線 列／漕ぐ／騒動 of the metal bleachers during the more than 2 1/2 hours of Liu´s first-一連の会議、交渉／完成する match.
"Their insight was excellent. They helped me. I said: `I know I´m supposed to be teaching you stuff, but this is more of a 共同. I am learning from you,´" Tontz said. "They know what they´re doing."
Like Harris, Shupenia is a former player - the 2015 Big East Player of the Year at DePaul University - who moved into coaching. She now teaches tennis in Chicago.
Her ultimate goal?
"To have a player of 地雷," she said, ちらりと見ることing at the Charleston Open´s main stadium, "参加する an event like this."
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Hours after her practice with Grabher, Linette's team for the week - Gellard, Hughes and Yao-Gallop - met for 15 minutes in a 支援する corner in the player dining room, sitting around a coffee （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する to go over a gameplan. Yao-Gallop leaned 今後 on a couch; Gellard and Hughes leaned 支援する in 議長，司会を務めるs.
Gellard asked Yao-Gallop for impressions of the 対抗者, and she 答える／応じるd with a 決裂／故障 of 傾向s: which 一打／打撃s she prefers, which give her trouble, what her mental 構成 is like.
Gellard and Hughes listened; then Hughes 申し込む／申し出d his take. And then the trio went 支援する and 前へ／外へ ... conferring about Linette´s practice ... about how she should warm up ... about how best to give her advice.
"I´ll have 1,000 questions for you after I watch the match," Yao-Gallop said with a chuckle.
As a player, she reached a career high of 757th in the WTA 最高位のs in 2002.
Two １０年間s later, she´s a coach who just wants a 発射.
"If we kee p growing this program, we´ll see way more coaches, 女性（の） coaches, on the road. And hopefully 50-50," Yao-Gallop said.
Then she paused, before 追加するing: "Or more."
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Howard Fendrich has been the AP´s tennis writer since 2002. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HowardFendrich
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Yuliya Shupenia, left, Iris Harris, 中心, and coach Chris Tontz watch players on a practice 法廷，裁判所 at the Charleston Open tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Monday, April 3, 2023. Yuliya Shupenia and Iris Beatrice Harris are 関係者s in the women's professional tennis 小旅行する's Coaching 傾向 Program to develop 女性（の） coaches. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Lan Yao-Gallop, left, 会談 with coach 示す Gellard as Magda Linette 準備するs to serve on a practice 法廷，裁判所 at the Charleston Open tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Monday, April 3, 2023. Yao-Gallop is a 関係者 in the women's profession al tennis 小旅行する's Coaching 傾向 Program to develop 女性（の） coaches. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Lan Yao-Gallop 会談 about her experience in the women's professional tennis Coach 傾向 Program on a practice 法廷，裁判所 at the Charleston Open tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Monday, April 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Coach 示す Gellard 会談 about coaching in the WTA as player Magda Linette listens at the Charleston Open tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Monday, April 3, 2023. Gellard is helping new coaches in the WTA's new program to develop 女性（の） coaches. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Iris Harris le ans on a 盗品故買者 as she watches players on a practice 法廷，裁判所 at the Charleston Open tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Monday, April 3, 2023. Harris is a member of the women's professional tennis 小旅行する's Coach 傾向 Program to develop 女性（の） coaches. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Iris Harris 会談 with coach Chris Tontz on a practice 法廷，裁判所 at the Charleston Open tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Monday, April 3, 2023. Harris joined the women's professional tennis 小旅行する's Coach 傾向 Program to learn more about coaching a プロの／賛成の, yes, but also to make 接触するs that could lead to that chance. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Pam Shriver, a former professional tennis player and 現在の tennis 放送者, 会談 about the WTA's new program to develop 女性（の） coaches during the Charleston Open tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Shriver is now a co-coach for Donna Vekic. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Lan Yao-Gallop watches as coach 示す Gellard gestures に向かって Magda Linette as she 準備するs to serve on a practice 法廷，裁判所 at the Charleston Open tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Monday, April 3, 2023. Yao-Gallop, a 43-year-old from 中国 who now lives in Edmonton, is 参加するing in the women's professional tennis 小旅行する's Coach 傾向 Program. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Lan Yao-Gallop and coach 示す Gellard, 中心, watch as Magda Linette 準備するs to serve on a practice 法廷，裁判所 at the Charleston Open tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Monday, April 3, 2023. Yao-Gallop is a member of the women's professional tennis 小旅行する's Coach 傾向 Program, which is in its first 十分な year of trying to help 女性（の） coaches break into the the 最高の，を越す level of the sport. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Coach 示す Gellard 会談 about coaching in the WTA as player Magda Linette listens at the Charleston Open tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Monday, April 3, 2023. Gellard is helping new coaches in the WTA's new program to develop 女性（の） coaches. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Pam Shriver, a former professional tennis player and 現在の tennis 放送者, 会談 about the WTA's new program to develop 女性（の） coaches during the Charleston Open tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Shriver is now a co-coach for Donna Vekic. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
