Hello All!,

Hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween.

I know Drago loves chocolate very  much so please feel free to bring as many little snacks to him as possible.

The itf event in Burlington wrapped up this weekend and a big congrats to all the players for their solid efforts and play. Special shout out to Ivan Mitric for making the finals. Those points will go a long way going forwards.

Also, shout out to Fed, for finally beating Nadal in a final. For 34 he still looks like he has game!

...and now on to our week ahead....

we will continue to build on last weeks themes: staying in the point, playing tougher on defence, using bigger targets on the court when pulled off in order to extend the point. and we will also be adding getting deeper into the point. running through different scenarios where the point wont start until certain restrictions or numbers are meet.

the goal is to keep pushing ourselves physically and more so mentally to believe and fight for points deeper into the rally. extending our breaking point: the moment when we make a lazy or low percentage decision that costs us the shot.
Sometimes we tend to believe that tennis is about making highlight shots. Although fun, the 1 out 10 times that this works doesn't balance out the other 9 times we end up losing the point. We as players, need to believe that a ball in play is really the number one focus and to do whatever it takes to make that happen. this week, we will.....

to all players using this time as their off season, for training, please make sure you are following your plans and schedules at the gym and that you are still finding time to get set and match play in over the weekends.

Have a great week everyone and see you on the courts!

Mike and Drago