Hello everyone. What a great week of work everyone put in last week. The players were put in a situation where they were physically challenged and having to compete on top of the physical exhaustion. It was a job well done.
In preparation for the up and coming National Selection we will be entering the pre-competition training. We will continue to do fitness but will lighten up by Thursday so the body will be relatively fresh and ready to compete.
The focal points for the week of January 18th are the following:
- Serve + 3rd hit. Players spend a lot of time developing big serves and returns. Because the returns have become a huge weapon, it is necessary to be able to counter well in order to stay in the point.
- Returns. Learning to put the server on the defense on their second serves so we can dominate the point.
- Transitioning from consistency to dominating point. In order to compete well, we need to start the point, to stay in the point, and to finish the point. It is easy to be caught just running side to side retrieving shots but we need to recognize opportunities and to quickly take advantage of them.
- Match play with different situations. We will play mini matches 2 out of 3 sets with different scenarios to get ready for the situation when they appear.
- Skill polishing. During the week of training, all the coaches will observe closely to what players need to polish on in order to get ready. Of course, it will be even better if the players themselves recognize the things they need to touch on:-)
Until next time.....
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