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.

Have a great week and thank you for choosing ORC "THE PLACE TO BE" :)"