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" :)"
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