Sportsfanatic
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This post will be a bit long
To tell you my story in short, I am an adult male and I started playing tennis a few weeks ago.
Tennis totally obsessed me, and I started reading alot of internet, forums, youtube..
When I start something and it excites me so much, I really dedicate everything to that and I have the goal to reach the maximum level that is possible.
From my understanding tennis has various ratings from UTR1 to UTR16...and the highest level of recreational tennis is around UTR 11~ish, maybe max close to UTR12 I believe?
From what I read, the average recreational player will reach a level much lower than that and not even close to that.
I understand why this is the case, the majority who start tennis later in life simply do not have the time, money or the desire and passion so that tennis would be the main thing in their life and to be 100% devoted to it and do everything needed to really achieve a high goal.
Nor is it realistic to expect this because they have jobs, families, hobbies, friends..
Maybe 1 person per 10000 really has everything necessary to really realistically invest enough time, effort and everything to do everything systematically and even have the possibility to really reach the maximum level.
And even then, you need to be willing to make alot of sacrifices in life..to really have a shot..most are not willing to do that.
Some advantages I believe I have:
-I have no obligations and I have alot of time available.
-Money is not a problem for me.
-Willing to sacrifice things in life and make tennis my #1 priority.
-Unlike those who started 10, 20, 30 years ago, much more information and videos are available today on the internet, instead of needing to figure things out for yourself.
-I start from scratch and from the beginning I plan to start with coaching, so I will not develop and automate bad techniques.
-I have played a lot of sports since I was a kid and I am fairly athletic, I have good coordination and I quickly pick up things and compete well at various sports.
-Good physique for tennis (6'3, lean body and arms, lengthy arms..)
-Medicine, nutrition, training is constantly improving and gaining new knowledge, many top pro players are still playing high level performance in various sports at 34,35 or even close to 40s nowadays and keep pushing the age of peak performance as nutrition, medicine.. keeps progressing.
-I am still fairly young and I think that at 27 years age I still have enough of a time frame to have some chances to reach a fairly high recreational level or at the very least to at least to some extent reach a level that can somewhat compete with those high level players (Utr11-12)
Possible question mark:
I do not know how talented I am for tennis specifically yet because I have barely begun, I know that every sport is very specific and each person has different innate abilities and talents that are transfered better or worse to a specific sport and this will be very much a big determining factor of my maximum potential tennis level.
Two reasons why I opened this topic
I know that there are for sure a lot of high level of players here, and also a lot of high level recreational players here with a lot of experience that went through alot, so I ask you for two things:
1.In your opinion, depending on everything I wrote about myself, what UTR level do you think is my lowest ceiling assuming I do not have a lot of natural talent for tennis (although I will completely give my all and try to reach the max level in any case) and what UTR level do you think is my highest ceiling assuming I have a lot of natural talent for tennis.
I'm just interested out of curiosity, it does not affect in any way what I think, I believe that a lot is possible if someone really devotes to something with 100% and really works hard in something, and that a lot of things are seen as impossible until somebody does it
2. Assuming you have many years of experience and reached a good tennis level, and knowledge of past mistakes or new discoveries, from a similar goal as me or simply improving your tennis game, I would be very glad if you could write what would be the optimal plan to reach the highest tennis level as a long-term plan.
How to start, amount of coaching, amount of gameplay, what things are very important to do and how much, which are not so important, off court work how much and what… basically everything, a full proof best plan and schedule in your opinion to reach the max level possible in the long term.
Please do not spare with words, write as much as possible, I need the most information that I can get, the more the better.
RG
To tell you my story in short, I am an adult male and I started playing tennis a few weeks ago.
Tennis totally obsessed me, and I started reading alot of internet, forums, youtube..
When I start something and it excites me so much, I really dedicate everything to that and I have the goal to reach the maximum level that is possible.
From my understanding tennis has various ratings from UTR1 to UTR16...and the highest level of recreational tennis is around UTR 11~ish, maybe max close to UTR12 I believe?
From what I read, the average recreational player will reach a level much lower than that and not even close to that.
I understand why this is the case, the majority who start tennis later in life simply do not have the time, money or the desire and passion so that tennis would be the main thing in their life and to be 100% devoted to it and do everything needed to really achieve a high goal.
Nor is it realistic to expect this because they have jobs, families, hobbies, friends..
Maybe 1 person per 10000 really has everything necessary to really realistically invest enough time, effort and everything to do everything systematically and even have the possibility to really reach the maximum level.
And even then, you need to be willing to make alot of sacrifices in life..to really have a shot..most are not willing to do that.
Some advantages I believe I have:
-I have no obligations and I have alot of time available.
-Money is not a problem for me.
-Willing to sacrifice things in life and make tennis my #1 priority.
-Unlike those who started 10, 20, 30 years ago, much more information and videos are available today on the internet, instead of needing to figure things out for yourself.
-I start from scratch and from the beginning I plan to start with coaching, so I will not develop and automate bad techniques.
-I have played a lot of sports since I was a kid and I am fairly athletic, I have good coordination and I quickly pick up things and compete well at various sports.
-Good physique for tennis (6'3, lean body and arms, lengthy arms..)
-Medicine, nutrition, training is constantly improving and gaining new knowledge, many top pro players are still playing high level performance in various sports at 34,35 or even close to 40s nowadays and keep pushing the age of peak performance as nutrition, medicine.. keeps progressing.
-I am still fairly young and I think that at 27 years age I still have enough of a time frame to have some chances to reach a fairly high recreational level or at the very least to at least to some extent reach a level that can somewhat compete with those high level players (Utr11-12)
Possible question mark:
I do not know how talented I am for tennis specifically yet because I have barely begun, I know that every sport is very specific and each person has different innate abilities and talents that are transfered better or worse to a specific sport and this will be very much a big determining factor of my maximum potential tennis level.
Two reasons why I opened this topic
I know that there are for sure a lot of high level of players here, and also a lot of high level recreational players here with a lot of experience that went through alot, so I ask you for two things:
1.In your opinion, depending on everything I wrote about myself, what UTR level do you think is my lowest ceiling assuming I do not have a lot of natural talent for tennis (although I will completely give my all and try to reach the max level in any case) and what UTR level do you think is my highest ceiling assuming I have a lot of natural talent for tennis.
I'm just interested out of curiosity, it does not affect in any way what I think, I believe that a lot is possible if someone really devotes to something with 100% and really works hard in something, and that a lot of things are seen as impossible until somebody does it
2. Assuming you have many years of experience and reached a good tennis level, and knowledge of past mistakes or new discoveries, from a similar goal as me or simply improving your tennis game, I would be very glad if you could write what would be the optimal plan to reach the highest tennis level as a long-term plan.
How to start, amount of coaching, amount of gameplay, what things are very important to do and how much, which are not so important, off court work how much and what… basically everything, a full proof best plan and schedule in your opinion to reach the max level possible in the long term.
Please do not spare with words, write as much as possible, I need the most information that I can get, the more the better.
RG