Week 4 - Happy Thanksgiving

Weekly Plan for Week of October 3rd

Happy Monday everyone.  Now that we have all settled in with school and the academy, we are in on some exciting times coming up with tournaments and new training regimen.  

Week 1 & 2 we worked diligently on depth keeping the balls deep and working on consistency through tempo control and movement.  Week 3 (last week) we added taking time away by hitting early, not to be confused with pick up ankle shots, and moving up and back instead of just laterally.  This week we are going to focus on adapting to incoming slow and fast paced balls, how to warm up properly at tournaments when court time is a challenge, and the pre and post match discussion with coaches.

In House Topics:

• Changing of the guards and in our case changing of the coaches.  In my forty plus years in tennis as an athlete, a coach, and a parent, I have pretty much seen everything when it comes to tennis. It seems to me for those players who were able to achieve at a high level of play are those who had 3 coaches or less in their playing life time.  And those who kept switching never found the magic potion.  There was an article that was published a few months ago on this very topic that I hope you will take the time to read. Is the coach responsible for results?

• If you have not or unable to get on Slack on your phone please make sure you let me know.  All communications will be through Slack by the end of October.

• In honor of Thanksgiving Day, there will be no academy on Monday, October 10th.

Be Safe

~~~Patricia~~~