Great players have great people around them. Smashie helps tennis, pickleball, padel, TYPTI and other racquet sport coaches, parents and players, stay calm, say it clearly and keep getting better, so everyone gets the most out of the game.
Just talk. Smashie handles the rest.
Keep the care. Lose the heat.
Your turn.
Planned launch price, the same for coaches, parents and players: $1 for 3 days, one time. Then $10 a month billed yearly, or $20 month to month. Players 13 and above can join.
Three tools, one habit: talk. Smashie is a player feedback and coaching app for racket sports. Say what you saw after a match, practice or lesson. Smashie writes it up, and every family gets only their own player's section.
Match, practice, private or semi-private lesson. Say what you saw. Smashie writes it up, remembers it, and sends each family their own player's report.
Pushy parent? Budget cut? Trouble at home? Running on empty? Say it out loud. Get a short plan you can act on today.
Nerves on big points? Slow first step? Loses it after a bad call? Describe it. Smashie asks a quick question or two, then gives you a plan to try.
Works for any racket sport you coach, including tennis, pickleball, padel, TYPTI and other racquet sport. Library topics start with tennis, pickleball and padel and grow from there. Examples shown are illustrative.
A report takes about 30 seconds of your time. Every step is a tap or one sentence.
Say what you saw. Smashie picks up the type, the players and the date as you speak.
Check who, what and when. If something is missing, Smashie asks one quick question.
One page per player, with a "Since last time" note drawn from your own earlier notes. Change anything by talking.
Approve in one tap. Each family gets only their own player's section.
Send in Smashie Messages, share from your own phone, or email from your own account. Download a PDF any time. For a group, send each parent or player only their line, or send the full group report.
Every tennis parent, and every pickleball, padel, TYPTI and other racquet sport parent, has had the drive home where a feeling came out wrong. Smashie helps you capture what you saw, say it calmly, and back your child's coach, so the relationship stays strong.
After a match or practice, say what you saw and how you feel. Smashie helps you capture it, match it to what the coach is working on, or practice saying it out loud.
Communicate with your child, the coach and the wider team in a way that keeps the care and drops the heat. Hard things can still be said, without the sting.
A ready-made, evidence-based pack so you're not searching at random. You can help at home, and the coach's plan stays in charge.
Always check with your child's coach and doctor before changing training or diet.
Parent version details and examples are previews and may change before launch. Smashie is not a substitute for medical, nutrition or psychological advice.
Your turn. Tools to help you level up your game are on the way, for tennis, pickleball, padel, TYPTI and other racquet sport players.
The same habit works on every court. Say what you saw, get a clear note for each player, and a plan for what comes next.
Private and semi-private lessons, team practice, matches and high performance players. Say what you saw and send each family their own report.
Tennis coachesTennis parentsTennis playersClinics, drills and match play. Capture what each player needs next and share it with their family in plain words.
Pickleball coachesPickleball parentsPickleball playersGroup lessons and pairs. A group report lets you send each player only their own line, or the whole report.
Padel coachesPadel parentsPadel playersA new racket sport played on a pickleball court. New sport, new players and new coaches. Track every player from day one.
TYPTI coachesTYPTI parentsTYPTI players
I played college tennis, and later coached college teams as an assistant at a Division I school. I've taught groups and privates since the 1990s. I also built a software company from scratch. My daughter Maya plays for the TCU women's tennis team and reached a career-high #94 in the ITF Junior world rankings. My son Jai plays for the IU Indy tennis team and is an ROTC cadet. Both play Division I tennis.
So I know what a coach carries. The lesson notes you never write down. The parent text at 10 at night. The boss who wants a report. The family at home who wants you back.
I also know the other side of the fence. As a parent in the stands, feelings run high, and the drive home can say too much. Smashie is for coaches, parents and players, so the player has a whole team pulling the same way.
I still coach today, with ladies' drills, club teams and a few high performance players. I built Smashie because I needed it. A coach should be able to say what they saw, send a clean note to every family, and get a plan when the pressure builds. Without giving up an evening to a keyboard.
Level up the player. And the team behind them.
Six findings from coaching, training and motor-learning research. They are why Smashie is built the way it is. We show how settled each one is.
Across 607 effect sizes and 23,663 observations, feedback improved performance on average. Over a third of the time it made performance worse, especially when attention shifted from the task to the person.
In a Little League follow-up of 152 players, dropout was 6% with coaches trained in positive coaching and 26% without. Players also enjoyed it more and felt less stress. Win-loss records did not change.
Heavy workload, lack of recovery, and work-home imbalance predict coach burnout. Chronic stress is linked to weaker coaching and strained coach-athlete relationships. Most studies are cross-sectional, and evidence on fixes is limited.
A scoping review found that positive coach-parent relationships support young athletes. The authors say the research is still thin and call for more work.
A meta-analysis of male athletes aged 10 to 18 found a moderate overall gain in sprint speed. Athletes past their growth spurt gained most. For those before it, the result was uncertain. It covers boys only, and the ranges are wide.
A 2021 meta-analysis found players who focused on the effect of a movement, like where the ball goes, learned more than players who focused on body parts. A 2024 preprint re-analysis found that after correcting for publication bias the effect shrinks to about zero. We offer these cues as something to try, not a promise.
This is research on coaching and learning in general. It explains why we build Smashie this way. It is not a set of results claimed for Smashie.
Parents see only their own player's reports. One family never sees another player's history.
Nothing goes out without your tap. Reports for juniors wait until a parent has given consent.
Messages with a junior always include a parent. No private one-on-one threads.
Smashie stays on coaching. It is not a therapist, lawyer, doctor or financial advisor. In an emergency, call 911.
Reviewed racket-sports files and coach topics, each tagged Solid, Emerging consensus or Under debate.
Findings found and reviewed before, saved with a date.
Marked "From the web, not reviewed by Smashie," with the source link, so you always know.
These are the planned launch prices. Coaches, parents and players pay the same. One license, one price. Every plan comes with a set number of hours each month. Here is exactly what you get, and how we count.
Use every part of Smashie for 3 days. After that, your plan starts at the regular price you pick. Cancel before the 3 days end and you only pay the $1. The $1 is non-refundable.
Billed $120 once a year.
Month to month. Twice the yearly rate.
Coaches, parents and players get the same plans, the same price and the same hours.
The direct-to-consumer version of Smashie, for coaches, parents and players, is coming in 2026. Leave your details and we will tell you the day it opens, so you can start your $1 introduction first.
Planned launch price: $1 for the first 3 days, one time per person, non-refundable. Then $120 billed yearly ($10 a month) or $20 a month. Your plan will renew automatically and you can cancel any time. Nothing is charged by joining the waitlist.
Players 13 and above can join. Under 13? Please ask a parent or guardian to join for you.
The time you spend speaking to Smashie. A 45-second lesson note uses 45 seconds. One hour is about 80 notes.
Each question you ask Smashie counts as 3 minutes. Twenty questions use one hour. We count questions, not how long you read or type.
Reading does not use hours. Open your reports, player files and the topic library as often as you like. Typing is free too.
You always know where you stand. We show your hours left, and we warn you before you run out.
If you use all your hours early, voice notes and guidance pause until the next month. Your reports, player files, and topic library stay open.
Smashie is a coaching and support app for racket sports. For coaches, it turns a quick voice note into a clear player report, helps you plan for conflict and pressure, and builds plans to help players improve. For parents, it helps you take the emotion out of what you saw, say it so it lands, and back your child's coach. The direct-to-consumer versions for coaches, parents and players are coming in 2026. You can join the waitlist on this page.
Smashie is for all racket sports, including tennis, pickleball, padel, TYPTI and other racquet sport. Library topics start with tennis, pickleball and padel and grow from there.
Talk after a match, practice or lesson. Smashie writes it up, saves it to the player's file, and adds a Since last time note drawn from your own earlier notes. You review it and tap to send. Each family sees only their own player's section.
Yes. Coach Navigator helps with parents, players, your boss, club business and your own energy. Say what is happening and get a short plan you can act on today. Smashie is a guide, not a therapist or lawyer.
The parent version helps you say what you saw and felt, turn it into calm, clear feedback, and share it with your child, the coach and the team without breaking the relationship. It also offers an evidence-based pack on fitness, strength and nutrition that backs up what the coach is doing. The direct-to-consumer parent version is coming in 2026.
A good starting point is to ask what the coach is working on before you offer your own view, and to say one thing at a time. Smashie helps you capture what you saw, practice how to say it, and share it in a way that keeps the relationship strong. Research on coach and parent relationships is still thin, but a 2025 scoping review of 10 studies found that positive relationships support young athletes.
The direct-to-consumer version of the Smashie app, for coaches, parents and players, is coming in 2026. We are taking names now. Join the waitlist on this page and we will tell you the day it opens. Launch prices are the same for everyone, starting with a $1 introduction for 3 days.
Yes. A direct-to-consumer player version is coming in 2026, along with the coach and parent versions. Players get the same price, the same $1 introduction and the same monthly hours as coaches and parents.
Players 13 and above can sign up on their own. Children under 13 do not get their own login. A parent uses the Parent version instead.
The planned launch price is simple. Try it for $1 for 3 days, one time per person. The $1 is non-refundable. After that it is $10 a month billed yearly ($120 a year), or $20 a month month to month. Coaches, parents and players pay the same.
Talk time is the time you spend speaking to Smashie. Each guidance question counts as 3 minutes. Reading and typing are free. Yearly gives 4 hours of talk time and 2 hours of guidance time a month. Monthly gives 6 and 3. Hours reset each month and do not carry over. Coaches, parents and players get the same hours.
Parents see only their own player's reports. One family never sees another player's history. Reports for juniors wait until a parent has given consent, and messages with a junior always include a parent.
No. Smashie is a guide for coaching and parenting support. It is not a therapist, lawyer, doctor or financial advisor. In an emergency, call 911.
Smashie was founded by Anirban Dutta, a former college tennis player and coach, a current USTA Texas board member and CEO of CompuMatrice. His daughter and son both play Division I tennis.
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