Archive for the ‘Tournaments and Championships’ Category
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10 Tips to Winning the Middle of the Match
As the match goes on analyze what has happened. Ask these questions:
What patterns do they use with their ground strokes to set up points?
How do they handle pace and off-pace balls?
Are they predictable with where they hit under pressure?
Based on their grips, where are their power zones?
How many balls are they willing to hit before [...] -
Davis Cup Report
Playing in Serbia on the red clay, Americans John Isner and Sam Querry showed heart and where American tennis still has a great crop of young players coming along.
In their first ever Davis Cup appearance, John and Sam lost their first matches as USA players. That had to be nervous time – can you imagine [...] -
Ladies Finals from Australia
I got up at 3:30 am here in Charleston, SC to see THE match from down under. My roommate was asleep, they wouldn’t let me access the TV in the bar – afraid I would drink them dry I guess. Little did they know I don’t drink. I went to the fitness center to watch [...]
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Andy Roddick loses to 6′6 Croatian in 5 sets but stands just as tall.
Andy’s match was a sports psych’s dream. Andy played a deliberate style early in the match but the 20 year old opponent is very smooth and athletic with a dream backhand. It appeared early on that Andy was not serving his best. He had been well around the 70% mark and lots of free points [...]
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This will be my last update from Aussie Land…
Today was another great day and we finally had sunshine – yeah… I took the tram to Rod Laver and was able to get in straight away.
Met with the Tennis Australia group that ran the Australian Coaches Conference and thanked them for making it such a great experience. I went to the players tunnel and [...] -
Aussie Land and Tennis Update #4
It is wet here and I have not had a chance to use my sunscreen in 7 days…..
Cool, windy and wet – am I in San Jose???
Dan Santorum and I walked in the mist, wind and chill down Russell Street to Findley St and off to Rod Laver Arena. Thank goodness for my level A [...] -
Australian Open Coaches Conference 2010
250 Aussie Coaches seated in Hisense Arena with the roof retracted and you get to present on the court that the top players in the world compete on….. Great feeling. Looks like an invite back next year to speak again. Sold all my DVD’s and had requests for more.
We listened to Bruce Elliott, top bio-mechanist [...] -
Australian Open Update #2
This is my third day in Melbourne as a speaker and my first time to Australia. It has been an awesome experience…..
Today I walked about 6 blocks from my hotel on Russell St down to the tram (trolley) which I took over to Hysense Arena. I am the 2nd presenter today on Hysense and they [...] -
Aussie Update from Ken
Ken DeHart is speaker at the Australian Open,
Australian Open Updates by Ken DeHart
