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Very interesting day I had today.
My coach decided that I should play a junior kid, he is 12 years old and extremely talented, my coach's friend whos also a coach is in charge of his development.. so they both said they wanted to do a match with us to see if we can train in the winter and also so they can do a match analysis and see what the weakest points in our games are and also statistics of the match.
Some very cool interesting things I learned from this
I lost the match 7:6 6:4, it was quite tight tho and quite equal overall, it was up and down the whole match from both of us.
The statistics were very interesting tho
I made 15 double faults (I knew I made quite a few but it did not seem like I made this many, I thought more like 8-10)
My 1st serve % was decent in set1, in set2 it was quite bad, I thought overall at the end it was around 50-60%, but to my suprize it was 46% in the match, which is very low, much too low.
I hit 11 winners but made quite alot of unforced errors, I think 40 something
It was very cool hearing the thoughts from both my coach and his coach tho.
We both play good, have very good variety of play and good technique and all, but both have alot of the same problems during play, and alot of them are common for players without a ton of mileage and matches behind them.
His coach actually said an interesting thing, that you need tons of matches and that he tells all his juniors to completely forget about the first 10 tournaments they play.
Some of the things that im (well both of us) having issues with during point play because I know you guys are interested:
1.Forcing the serve too much, when its clicking its good but when it starts to not go in theres no adjustment of more spin and a bit less pace to get the feel back, but just keep swinging at it the same as always even in a slump, need to learn to adjust more depending on how its feeling if its hot or cold
2.Lack of patience during points, we both want to finish points and go for winners too often, we need alot more build up play and keeping the ball in play, we attacked some good attackable balls but we also went for too aggressive shots from not so good positions many times
3.Get tight on 2nd serve often, specially when theres a crucial point, they could see the hand shortening and getting very tight, but its normal and will improve with more play
4.Very bad movement backwards on deep very high balls, and often get caught in a bad spacing or position on these balls (I already know I struggle with this)
5.We both tend to be dead on our feet after hitting a very good aggressive shot or a very good serve because it already looks like a won point, a winner or ace or whatever, and we almost stop and then when the ball gets returned we get caught off guard and suprized and flat footed
My coach decided that I should play a junior kid, he is 12 years old and extremely talented, my coach's friend whos also a coach is in charge of his development.. so they both said they wanted to do a match with us to see if we can train in the winter and also so they can do a match analysis and see what the weakest points in our games are and also statistics of the match.
Some very cool interesting things I learned from this
I lost the match 7:6 6:4, it was quite tight tho and quite equal overall, it was up and down the whole match from both of us.
The statistics were very interesting tho
I made 15 double faults (I knew I made quite a few but it did not seem like I made this many, I thought more like 8-10)
My 1st serve % was decent in set1, in set2 it was quite bad, I thought overall at the end it was around 50-60%, but to my suprize it was 46% in the match, which is very low, much too low.
I hit 11 winners but made quite alot of unforced errors, I think 40 something
It was very cool hearing the thoughts from both my coach and his coach tho.
We both play good, have very good variety of play and good technique and all, but both have alot of the same problems during play, and alot of them are common for players without a ton of mileage and matches behind them.
His coach actually said an interesting thing, that you need tons of matches and that he tells all his juniors to completely forget about the first 10 tournaments they play.
Some of the things that im (well both of us) having issues with during point play because I know you guys are interested:
1.Forcing the serve too much, when its clicking its good but when it starts to not go in theres no adjustment of more spin and a bit less pace to get the feel back, but just keep swinging at it the same as always even in a slump, need to learn to adjust more depending on how its feeling if its hot or cold
2.Lack of patience during points, we both want to finish points and go for winners too often, we need alot more build up play and keeping the ball in play, we attacked some good attackable balls but we also went for too aggressive shots from not so good positions many times
3.Get tight on 2nd serve often, specially when theres a crucial point, they could see the hand shortening and getting very tight, but its normal and will improve with more play
4.Very bad movement backwards on deep very high balls, and often get caught in a bad spacing or position on these balls (I already know I struggle with this)
5.We both tend to be dead on our feet after hitting a very good aggressive shot or a very good serve because it already looks like a won point, a winner or ace or whatever, and we almost stop and then when the ball gets returned we get caught off guard and suprized and flat footed
I guess I'm stubborn lol
