The exact point at which my confidence rose is not clear to me. And just like that I have 100 career wins on my LTA competition profile. It has taken some time in coming, when you consider that there are
Watching the world’s best is bad for my tennis. Perfection unreachable. Every year – Always like never before, mind the gap between the professional and the wanna be. Thurs after Wimbledon. Third time back on court. Maybe it’s the coaching
There is room for optimism If February was all about getting back to competition and preparing for the season ahead. March has been like sitting in a draughty wet waiting room waiting for a delayed train to arrive. Yes, there
Always turn up, even when you don’t want to and don’t turn up on days set aside for rest, just because you feel good. Right, you have decided what to do in the off season. You have a plan of
The road to success next season starts now. Here are a few thoughts and observations from my personal experience. I hope you find them of interest and they get you fired up in readiness for next season. The battles of
Playing with optimism, 100% all in, feeling great about my tennis. Discovering something of self, more than I expected and beyond the tennis court. Weds 18 – Just before 7am. I slide my feet into the pedals of the exercise bike.
The January tennis diaries part 1
Past the mid point of the off season now. The first competition of the new year is pencilled in for early January. Pleased with progress and worried in equal measure, that I should be doing more. Winter training week 9 – as it
Running knows it is doing a fine job in keeping the motivational fires burning while tennis is taking its seasonal break. Rain lashes the windows, driven by the gusting wind, seemingly without pause this past week. It’s not the weather
Handling the inevitable ups and downs of reality, against my own expectations is hard sometimes, when you are also your own coach. And so it was this week, when I entered in the training diary the words ‘cold, old and
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