UK Sport are confident of helping transform the fortunes of British tennis after revealing the sport will become the 28th to submit itself to their scrutiny ahead of the 2012 Olympics.
The Lawn Tennis Association have approached the body responsible for overseeing the majority of the country's Olympic disciplines in a bid to boost their chances of success in the build up to the London Games.
Outgoing chief executive John Steele said: "It's about everyone being open and honest about where they think they are, what challenges need to be satisfied, and how we can learn from each other. And that's why tennis have now said, 'We want to be in the Mission 2012 process, profiling, talking to you about how we can move forward'."
Director of performance Peter Keen explained tennis would be subject to the same scrutiny as the 27 other sports he currently oversees.
UK Sport employ a traffic-light system in which Olympic and Paralympic disciplines which meet their targets are rated green, with the rest tagged as amber or red depending on the seriousness of the challenges they face.
The sports themselves provide the information by which those ratings are compiled using 30 different criteria.
Keen said: "What the LTA have seen in this process is an ability to take what perhaps for them is a blurry picture of where they're at and take it apart into those 30 different pieces and have a serious look at what seems to be working and what isn't.
"And with our support, having the experience of looking at all the other sports in this way for more than three years now, we're able to encourage them to think, 'You may think that's where it needs to be but actually it could be a hell of a lot different'.
"It's early days but I think when they first saw the tool - the process that comes with this - and we impacted with them, their eyes lit up, because they could see a way of rationalising their thinking and their planning."
The Lawn Tennis Association have approached the body responsible for overseeing the majority of the country's Olympic disciplines in a bid to boost their chances of success in the build up to the London Games.
Outgoing chief executive John Steele said: "It's about everyone being open and honest about where they think they are, what challenges need to be satisfied, and how we can learn from each other. And that's why tennis have now said, 'We want to be in the Mission 2012 process, profiling, talking to you about how we can move forward'."
Director of performance Peter Keen explained tennis would be subject to the same scrutiny as the 27 other sports he currently oversees.
UK Sport employ a traffic-light system in which Olympic and Paralympic disciplines which meet their targets are rated green, with the rest tagged as amber or red depending on the seriousness of the challenges they face.
The sports themselves provide the information by which those ratings are compiled using 30 different criteria.
Keen said: "What the LTA have seen in this process is an ability to take what perhaps for them is a blurry picture of where they're at and take it apart into those 30 different pieces and have a serious look at what seems to be working and what isn't.
"And with our support, having the experience of looking at all the other sports in this way for more than three years now, we're able to encourage them to think, 'You may think that's where it needs to be but actually it could be a hell of a lot different'.
"It's early days but I think when they first saw the tool - the process that comes with this - and we impacted with them, their eyes lit up, because they could see a way of rationalising their thinking and their planning."
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