— the „All In One Hand — Principle“ 

Tennis training, conditioning training, tournament scheduling and – coaching, physiotherapy, school care and control and education are perfectly coordinated and all in one hand.

For the best of our students — Every single day !

Cooperate with each other at the FLTA in a harmonious relation. They complement one another for mutual benefit. Thus the scholastic education is always obtaining the appropriate attention, without cutting the demands,  that high level sports arises.
In our daily schedule the professional training program and the intense scholastic program are perfectly synchronized.
„Everything under one roof“. Thus our students are able to improve their scholastic achievements within a very short period of time.
Our up to now most sucessful students, now ranked between no. 55 and no. 650 in the world rankings, all have graduated with outstanding results. Top-100 player Simon Greul for example with an average of 1.7 in the german abitur.   
 

FLTA pros, teachers and coaches are guiding our students throughout the day. They are ready to help them in case of upcoming problems and they take care of order and discipline in the boarding house.

Living in the boarding house is like living in a family. 
Consequently homesickness is a an unknown word at the FLTA. 
 

The FLTA training program incorporates a combination of all factors, that determine the performance in the game of  tennis. The training of technique, consistency, accuracy and physical condition (coordination, speed & agility, strength, endurance a.s.o.) are vital parts of the FLTA training routine.
Flaws in technique as well as tactical or physical weaknesses in the game of our students are being traced and are consequently fought by our coaches staff. We provide our students with a complete and thorough education in tennis technique.
By means of an early and well balanced approach to tournament tennis our students learn to deal with the challenge of competition right in time. We don´t put our focus on winning or losing at all costs, but rather on the sucessful transformation of the technical and tactical skills brought up in training into the tournament situation. In that concern we regard tournament appearances of our young students as a learning process. In our words: „tournament training“.

We always encourage our students to play modern, offensive tennis, even though the chances of early sucesses might become less likely.
We recognize positive results and outstanding rankings positively, but anyway they are of minor importance to us.
 

We put a special focus on the social education and the development of the character of our students. Our philosophy in education and training is based on the belief, that the chances of our students to successfully perform in the game of tennis result from the combination of different factors

 Physical fitness                              social competence               

       technical skills                                education

                 tactical skills                  intelligence

                      Intellectual and mental skills


In their daily work our staff members are always concerned to work on those factors, to help each of our students to reach his individual maximum of performance in tennis and school.

Sportsmanship and fairness on and off the court are vital parts of the FLTA education: Our motto in that concern is :

„Without fairness there can be no true victory“

Teamspirit is another important column of our philosophy.
By training, playing tournaments, learning and spending leisure time together in a team, we constantly build up the teamspirit and the social conduct of our students. 
Stardom and resulting airs and graces of more successful players cannot arise at the FLTA. 

Our students rather benefit  from the strenghts of their teammates and help each other to work on their weaknesses.
Respect for teachers and comrades, discipline and concentration in training and school as well as responsibility and consideration for teammembers are other important values of our philosophy.

This way our students recognize very early, that outstanding performances depend strongly on  terms like „respect“, „discipline“, „concentration“, „responsibility“ and „humility“.
 

The main goal of our training system is to offer to our students the optimum support to reach their individual performance maximum.

We strive for the „complete player“, who within his individual preferences and talents,  can reach his individual maximum of performance.
Our training program incorporates a combination of all factors that determine performance in the game of tennis.
The training of tennis technique, consitency and accuracy are vital elements of the daily practice routine.
The conditioning training at the FLTA is following the newest knowledge of sports science as well as more than 20 years of experience of our conditioning coaches in high level sports.

All components that determine performance in tennis such as speed, agility, flexibility, coordination, balance, strength and endurance are being practiced on– and/or off-court 
Thus our students start to obtain the conditional basis and later gain the fitness, necessary to be competitive in senior tennis.

The training of our students lies all in one hand. An intensive communication is always taking place amongst the pros and coaches.
Strengths, weaknesses and upcoming problems are frequently being discussed within our staff.
The organization of training– and tournament scheduling, tournament organization (entries, withdrawals, travel, departure, arrival, housing, coaching a.s.o.) are being completely taken over by our administration. 
The health of our students lies in the hands of our team of physiotherapists.
In case of arising problems like injuries, overuse or dysbalances they are ready to intervene immidiately. Thus we can usually prevent our students from longer rehabilitation periods.
 

Professional players