The Confederation of African Tennis organized in conjunction with the International Tennis Federation’s Coaching Department « ITF Coaching », the Tunisian Tennis Federation and the Olympic Solidarity, the African Coaches’ Conference at Hotel Royal Salem in Sousse – Tunisia from 9 to 12 October 2008.

Participating Coaches:
This Conference has registered 81 Tennis Coaches representing twelve nations as follow:
Tunisia (55), Libya (9), Algeria (6), Sudan (2), Syria (2), Iraq (1), Mali (1), Egypt (1), Djibouti (1), Mauritania (1), Côte d’Ivoire (1), Morocco (1)

Experts:
Around ten experts have intervened during this conference:
Bernard Pestre (France): 5 presentations.
Antoni Girod (France): 4 presentations
Frank Couraud (France – ITF): 2 presentations
Amine Ben Makhlouf (Morocco – ITF): 2 presentations
Dominique Cissé (France): 2 presentations.
Hichem Riani (Tunisie – CAT): 2 presentations
Wahid Alioua (Tunisie - FTT): 1 presentation.
Clément Ngoran (Côte d’Ivoire – CAT): 1 presentation
Dr Raouf Nader Rekik (Tunisie): 1 presentation
Mme Salma Mouelhi Guizani (Tunisia): 1 presentation.
Mme Lamia Ben Ezzeddine Boussaidi (Tunisia): 1 presentation

Accommodation:
Hotel Royal Salem 4* for all Experts and Hotel Salem 3* for all participating coaches getting all facilities of both Hotels such as Gymnasium & Fitness room, tennis court, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, discothèque

Transport et Accueil :
All Experts and participating coaches were collected at their arrival at the International Airport of Tunis Carthage and transported to the site of the Conference in Sousse – 140 Km from the Airport. The same procedure was done for the return for departure.

Items distributed to all participants:
All participants including experts have received a Lap Top’s bag containing all documents for the Conference such as summaries of interventions, bloc notes, pen, CAT Pin’s, the CAT Yearbook 2006 and 2007, DVD of Play & Stay, Tennis brochures, Tie shirt of the Conference, ITF Cap…

Conference room:
Very well equipped with two screens, video projectors…

Terrain Court:
Very close to the Conference room (25 meters) in very good condition, with chairs and good Hi fi Equipment.

Experts and Subjects of presentations:
1st day
* Clément Ngoran "Encadrement technique et tactique en situation de jeu"
* Wahid Alioua "Structure de fonctionnement du tennis en Tunisie"
* Amine Ben Makhlouf "Exercices et astuces ludiques facilitant l'apprentissage du tennis"
* Frank Couraud "Play & Stay"
* Hichem Riani "Dans une compétition par équipe, comment devenir un bon capitaine ?"

2nd day
* Antoni Girod "Exercices de concentration, exercices de mise en place de routines de concentration"
* Amine Ben Makhlouf "Tennis pourcentage
* Antoni Girod "Vidéo & visualisation, visualisation tactique et arts martiaux"
* Bernard Pestre "La technique pour devenir champion"
* Bernard Pestre "Le tennis évolutif : ses principes et sa mise en place"

3rd Day
* Bernard Pestre "Le tennis évolutif : illustration pratique de la présentation qui aurait été effectuée en salle"
* Antoni Girod "Exercices de visualisation & exercices sur le langage du corps"
* Hichem Riani "Comment jouer les points clés "importants" d'un match selon la situation du jeu et du joueur"
* Antoni Girod "Préparation et analyse de match- périodisation de l'entraînement mental"
* Raouf Rekik "Maladies de croissance"

4th Day* Mme Selma Mouelhi Guizani "Etude du temps de réaction chez les joueurs de tennis de haut niveau"
* Dominique Cissé "L'optimisation des qualités physiques du joueur et l'amélioration de son rendement"
* Bernard Pestre "Le jeu au filet chez les joueuses"
* Lamia Boussaidi "Filières énergétiques de l'exercice musculaire, quoi de neuf ?"
* Frank Couraud "La volée, est ce un coup du passé ?"
* Dominique Cissé "L'entraînement de la vitesse"

* All presentations were done in French with immediate translation to Arabic done by Wahid Alioua and Hichem Riani.

Official Dinner: Mister Tarak Chérif, President de la Confederation of African Tennis and the Tunisian Tennis Federation has honored the gala dinner at the Royal Salem Hotel. Mr. Tahar Laajimi, Regional Director of Youth Sports and Physical Education of Sousse, the Presidents of the Tennis Clubs of the region have also honored by their attendance the dinner with the Experts and the participating Coaches.

Mr. Tarak Chérif has welcomed all participants and than proceeded by offering gifts to all experts.

Video:
It is important to mention that all interventions were filmed and DVD will be available in a very near future.

Closing Ceremony:
The Conference was ended on Sunday 12 October 2008 at 17:30 around a nice cocktail, and certificates were delivered to all participants.

LEVEL I TUTOR’S WORKSHOP

Following the African Coaches’ Conference, the International Tennis Federation has organized on Wednesday 8 October 2008 at the Hotel Royal Salem a Tutor’s Level I Coches’ Course. This Course was conducted by Frank Couraud, Amine Ben Makhlouf and Hichem Riani and registered the attendance of nine coaches representing Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Syria, Côte d’Ivoire and Mali.
This course was designed to assist tutors improve the quality of coaches education programs in their countries. Among other things, the course outlined the main goals and characteristics of the ITF courses including syllabi, contents, schedules, assessment criteria, presentation methods, available resources, e-learning procedures. .