Hello and welcome to another week!
I hope everyone has had a chance to watch some great tennis. Including milos and his continued success heading into the quarterfinals. Hard work payed off
Last week we focused a lot on keeping our focus. At the beginning middle and end of a drill match or excercise. Looking at the milos match those words and mantra could not be any truer. He was up 2 set to none. Lost his way a bit and then stormed back I. The fifth to take it. This is a great example of continued focus.
This is something we are going to continue to try and promote and focus on as it is an invaluable piece of the game. This week we will continue also to work on ball control. We spent a little bit of time on it last week and had mixed success. So to further the process we will spend another week on this task and continue to challenge our hitting zones. It's great to hit a ball when when you have a solid foundation balance and good contact but try doing that when you don't. We have to make our opponents get out of their comfort zones and create opportunities.
With the tournament season now in full swing this is a big part of moving forward. Also, we will be updating results from this past week later today and discussing upcoming events as well. Once we have everyone's results they will be posted here. Stay tuned....
Monday 25 January 2016
Monday 18 January 2016
Eh Mate!
Well, its Aussie Open time. Time to see some great late night and very early morning tennis. This is always a great time of year in the tennis world as we can finally see all the stars of our game on the tube and better yet see who put in the work in the "off season". As you can imagine, this tournament is one of the most physically demanding events on the tour and really, only the fittest survive.
I'd like all of you to have a look at the scores throughout the first week and notice how many 2 plus hour matches there are. Lots, even for the ladies, note, the 3 set matches and the time on court that they have. I bring this up, because our practices are 2 hours long and for the most part by minute 90 we find that lots of the players are mentally and physically starting to check out. We need to be tougher longer on the courts. If not us, then the opponents will be and your technique or strategy wont matter at that point.
In conjunction with this thought process, we will be shifting our focus to finishing practices strong, tough and evaluating each player on their ability to compete till the end. practices will be structured this week with a tough first 75minutes. heavy on volume, drilling and station work. at that point we will be playing a set which will then decide what the final 15 minutes of practice will look like. those keeping their focus will continue playing, those losing their way will spend time with Drago, haha,
point is, that we need to not only show up to practice ready to work, and energized but we have to maintain and finish just as strong.
this will be a fun and tough week for all, look forward to the challenge....
also...
As you know our Tennis Director Yves Boulais is in Australia with WTA player Alison Riske. I am sure you saw her in December training with us at ORC. In this blog I will be posting every day all sort of stuff interesting to you tennis players. I will post good articles, news from here and training video of players and all kind of stuff that will happen in our trip. This information will not get to you if you are not subscribe to the blog so do it now @ www.orcgrandslam.com, and once you are there fill out the text box on the right corner and every time I will post a new message, you will get a nice email that will tell you all about it. Help us help you.
Well, its Aussie Open time. Time to see some great late night and very early morning tennis. This is always a great time of year in the tennis world as we can finally see all the stars of our game on the tube and better yet see who put in the work in the "off season". As you can imagine, this tournament is one of the most physically demanding events on the tour and really, only the fittest survive.
I'd like all of you to have a look at the scores throughout the first week and notice how many 2 plus hour matches there are. Lots, even for the ladies, note, the 3 set matches and the time on court that they have. I bring this up, because our practices are 2 hours long and for the most part by minute 90 we find that lots of the players are mentally and physically starting to check out. We need to be tougher longer on the courts. If not us, then the opponents will be and your technique or strategy wont matter at that point.
In conjunction with this thought process, we will be shifting our focus to finishing practices strong, tough and evaluating each player on their ability to compete till the end. practices will be structured this week with a tough first 75minutes. heavy on volume, drilling and station work. at that point we will be playing a set which will then decide what the final 15 minutes of practice will look like. those keeping their focus will continue playing, those losing their way will spend time with Drago, haha,
point is, that we need to not only show up to practice ready to work, and energized but we have to maintain and finish just as strong.
this will be a fun and tough week for all, look forward to the challenge....
also...
As you know our Tennis Director Yves Boulais is in Australia with WTA player Alison Riske. I am sure you saw her in December training with us at ORC. In this blog I will be posting every day all sort of stuff interesting to you tennis players. I will post good articles, news from here and training video of players and all kind of stuff that will happen in our trip. This information will not get to you if you are not subscribe to the blog so do it now @ www.orcgrandslam.com, and once you are there fill out the text box on the right corner and every time I will post a new message, you will get a nice email that will tell you all about it. Help us help you.
Have a great week and thank you for choosing ORC "THE PLACE TO BE" :)"
Wednesday 13 January 2016
Hello to all!!
I want to say welcome back, but it's me who is coming back this week. I spent the past 5 days with some of the Orc boys (Clarke, Ivan, Ivan and Ryan as well as a player from another academy) in Florida playing a futures event. The boys competed hard, trained tough and learned a little more of what it's going to take to achieve international success. I also want to thank them as well for the opportunity and their commitment as I had a fantastic learning experience.
This week in he program we will be working on playing your second ball. That means that as a server the first shot coming back from the return. in order to focus on this shot we will be focusing on the serve as well in order to set up the shot and create a one two punch.
The second shot can very much set the tone for the point so it is really important that you have a plan ahead of time. this means using the serve to force a certain ball back ad also, when a shot comes back that you identify it as soon as possible in order to take advantage of an opportunity that might be there.
We will be working on this skill in three parts. from the hand feed in order to work on a certain situation, from a set play given by a live return and then in open play.
also, as a bonus feature.....
As you know our Tennis Director Yves Boulais is in Australia with WTA player Alison Riske. I am sure you saw her in December training with us at ORC. In this blog I will be posting every day all sort of stuff interesting to you tennis players. I will post good articles, news from here and training video of players and all kind of stuff that will happen in our trip. This information will not get to you if you are not subscribe to the blog so do it now @ www.orcgrandslam.com, and once you are there fill out the text box on the right corner and every time I will post a new message, you will get a nice email that will tell you all about it. Help us help you.
I want to say welcome back, but it's me who is coming back this week. I spent the past 5 days with some of the Orc boys (Clarke, Ivan, Ivan and Ryan as well as a player from another academy) in Florida playing a futures event. The boys competed hard, trained tough and learned a little more of what it's going to take to achieve international success. I also want to thank them as well for the opportunity and their commitment as I had a fantastic learning experience.
This week in he program we will be working on playing your second ball. That means that as a server the first shot coming back from the return. in order to focus on this shot we will be focusing on the serve as well in order to set up the shot and create a one two punch.
The second shot can very much set the tone for the point so it is really important that you have a plan ahead of time. this means using the serve to force a certain ball back ad also, when a shot comes back that you identify it as soon as possible in order to take advantage of an opportunity that might be there.
We will be working on this skill in three parts. from the hand feed in order to work on a certain situation, from a set play given by a live return and then in open play.
also, as a bonus feature.....
As you know our Tennis Director Yves Boulais is in Australia with WTA player Alison Riske. I am sure you saw her in December training with us at ORC. In this blog I will be posting every day all sort of stuff interesting to you tennis players. I will post good articles, news from here and training video of players and all kind of stuff that will happen in our trip. This information will not get to you if you are not subscribe to the blog so do it now @ www.orcgrandslam.com, and once you are there fill out the text box on the right corner and every time I will post a new message, you will get a nice email that will tell you all about it. Help us help you.
Have a great week and thank you for choosing ORC "THE PLACE TO BE" :)"
Monday 4 January 2016
Hello everyone and welcome back!!
I hope everyone had a great Christmas break and a wonderful New Years celebration.
Over the break some of you took time off to relax and recharge and someone you continued the daily grind. To this that where away from the courts we had a few exciting performances by some of our players. Congrats to all that played in the open series events as well as the Junior Circuit tournaments.
With the break now over and the new season in full swing it's time to get out game faces on. We will be splitting the court time this week in two parts. Some players new to get back to hitting and getting their timing, feel and footwork back in check, while others need to play lots of points to get ready for the upcoming tournaments. We will be having a more per player focused practice week this week in order to accommodate both of those needs.
Group 1 will be going throw a lot of volume hitting, feeding and footwork oriented hitting. With the emphasis being on contact, balance and set up. While group 2 will be more focused on point play, set play and match strategy to get ready for the upcoming series of events starting with this weekend.
For the new year we will shifting gears for a little bit in the month of January and getting back to hard work, fast paced tempo chasing the ball type drilling, and trying to get our cardio to catch up to the level of tennis that we will be looking at playing come provincials. Therefore the month of February will be more point play oriented to be in the best situation for the March provincial season.
I hope that all players have their tournament plans lined up. If not and you need help setting it up please sit down and speak with your coaches, if you do not have a person coach yet please speak with one of the tour coaches to help you. Sometimes it's not how hard you work, but rather how smart you work. Have a plan and a goal and therefor you have a purpose to each day.
Also, there is a small group of players headed to Florida this week to try their hand at a futures event, best of luck to them!
Let bring our best effort starting from day one of the new year!
Tour coaches......
I hope everyone had a great Christmas break and a wonderful New Years celebration.
Over the break some of you took time off to relax and recharge and someone you continued the daily grind. To this that where away from the courts we had a few exciting performances by some of our players. Congrats to all that played in the open series events as well as the Junior Circuit tournaments.
With the break now over and the new season in full swing it's time to get out game faces on. We will be splitting the court time this week in two parts. Some players new to get back to hitting and getting their timing, feel and footwork back in check, while others need to play lots of points to get ready for the upcoming tournaments. We will be having a more per player focused practice week this week in order to accommodate both of those needs.
Group 1 will be going throw a lot of volume hitting, feeding and footwork oriented hitting. With the emphasis being on contact, balance and set up. While group 2 will be more focused on point play, set play and match strategy to get ready for the upcoming series of events starting with this weekend.
For the new year we will shifting gears for a little bit in the month of January and getting back to hard work, fast paced tempo chasing the ball type drilling, and trying to get our cardio to catch up to the level of tennis that we will be looking at playing come provincials. Therefore the month of February will be more point play oriented to be in the best situation for the March provincial season.
I hope that all players have their tournament plans lined up. If not and you need help setting it up please sit down and speak with your coaches, if you do not have a person coach yet please speak with one of the tour coaches to help you. Sometimes it's not how hard you work, but rather how smart you work. Have a plan and a goal and therefor you have a purpose to each day.
Also, there is a small group of players headed to Florida this week to try their hand at a futures event, best of luck to them!
Let bring our best effort starting from day one of the new year!
Tour coaches......
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