Hello! Maria

Today, I will want to speak about certain technical actions in the sporting behavior of the tennis player at the time of his match. I noticed that certain players are satisfied to turn over the ball towards the opposing side without worrying on the way in which this ball will be taken delivery of and returned by the adversary.

What constitutes a great error, because, it is not a question to return the ball in any beauty (cut, reverse, air ball, etc), since tennis is not only one play of sleight of hand, but it acts to know how to return this ball? Where to return it? And when to return it?

With the result that there exists a great difference in the manner of returning a ball; and the player is held to mark points while returning this ball, towards the opposing side, with force, speed, precision and, especially, at the favorable moment and towards the most favorable space; also the speed must in no manner being supported with the detriment of the precision.

For example, a player right-handed, who holds his racket with the right hand and which launches out in a dash towards the right side, finds a very great difficulty in intercepting a ball which is turned over towards the left side.

Therefore, the player does not need to see the reaction of his adversary to choose towards which side to return the ball to him; but it is enough to guess instinctively towards which side this adversary will be projected for to choose in which space shoot and to mark the point.

Thus, a truth rally can last up to 20 or 30 pass, when the play is powerful and is balanced and that the adversaries are worth in technique; but, when the play is banal, the rally should not exceed the 5 pass, and the player which is more offensive and shooting more quickly and with power can mark points. Good Chance! God Bless You! Kisses 

Hello! Maria

It is necessary well to concentrate on the decisive balls (points 40); because there are some which are equivalent to a whole Set or a Match in terms of true values and time. Therefore, it is necessary that you take all your time and your concentration before playing these decisive balls.

It will never be repeated enough, a ball shot in an empty space is likely more to mark points than a ball which is shot in space where the adversary is; in addition to the fact that it will have the advantage of making run the adversary and, therefore, to exhaust it physically.

With regard to Kerber, it is a stable and regular player who is characterized by a great quality in the precision, the power of the return and the maintenance of the large rally, since she enjoys a very great physical shape.

On the other hand, its Service and its Aces are very weak, which can be advantageous for you to make the difference with your powerful shootings. Go Ahead Maria! Good Chance and God Bless You! Kisses

Hello! Maria

Today, I will want to speak to you about the extraordinary effort of which the tennis player can make proof in certain unfavorable situations during certain matches.

Extraordinary effort

Often the tennis players, when they are in a very critical unfavorable situation, they make an extraordinary effort which can enable them to go up the slope, and, as of time, they can go up a gap of 4 and 5 parts.

This extraordinary effort is not the fact of the chance, but it is due to an extraordinary excitement of its natural energy and its concentration caused by certain psychological factors due in exceptional states of nervousness, anger, rage to win, challenge, domination, over-estimate of oneself, etc

Therefore, generally, there are negative factors that can cause feelings of going beyond of oneself and stimulate the psychic system of the player so that it can cause positive effects on all the body, in particular while bringing more for the energy substance of the player and by controlling perfectly his natural reflexes and its best concentration.

On the other hand, this extraordinary effort can also be caused in normal situations where the player is in more favorable position. Thus, it is enough that the player is more conscious and is more motivated about the importance of his victory and, from there, it deploys a little more its physical and psychic capacities for not to fall into the self-satisfaction, the imprudence, the impatience, the negligence and the decline which can be fatal to him.

Therefore, to avoid this situation, the tennis player should not moderate his prudence and its attention and it must, imperatively, continue its play with the same method, the same manner and the same style to avoid any bad surprise and to gain the match high the hand. Go Ahead Maria! Good Chance and God Bless You! Kisses

Hello! Maria

Today, I will want to speak to you on the concept of the Concentration in the sport of the tennis, which remains the principal asset of the player to gain his match.

Concentration

The concentration is a psychic faculty very essential to the success of any work, activity or action which the individual can undertake. But, contrary to other psychic faculties, the concentration is not a thing which depends directly on the will of the individual, because, it exceeds its goodwill and its capacities psychic and physical. However, the individual can accustom his brain and adapt it to control this concentration through methods and exercises psychic and physical.

Thus, to know the degree of his concentration, the individual must make a small test; For example, while trying to read and understand ½ page of a book; if it understands all the contents, that it read, in its first reading without much effort, it is that its concentration is in the top of its performance. But, if it must read the contents several times to understand it, it is that its concentration needs to be perfected.

Consequently, in the field of the sport the optimal level of the concentration varies from a discipline at another and according to the time of exercise of this discipline. Thus, a Karate expert in the field of Martial arts needs thousand times more force of concentration and in a time thousand times less than one tennis player, to be able to break bricks.

Therefore, in the field of tennis the optimal level of the concentration, not only must be high, but, especially, maintained all along the duration of the match; what cannot be done without consequences of exhaustion of the potential energy (physical and psychic) of the player. From where the recourse to the contribution necessary out of oxygen, acid and sugar during the exercise of the sports activity, and in calories and substances energy the day before the sports activity (slow sugar, iron, vitamins).

To preserve this concentration on his optimal level and to maintain it during the time imposed by the duration of the match, the player needs to make great physical efforts and psychic before and during the exercise of the sports activity.

Therefore, the psychological preparation of the concentration starts much more before the match, and in this direction, certain recommendations are essential for the success of this psychological preparation:

•  Vision of several different matches (in particular the video of the adversary), before the day of the match, for psychologically to program all the technical possibilities which can emerge in the match.

•  To re-examine and memorize psychologically all the techniques, the actions and the reactions which take on a very important aspect and if required to be able to repeat itself during the match.

•  Psychologically to program the anticipated reactions which will have to be adopted at the time of the match in answer to certain difficult situations where the player can be found.

•  Psychologically to program the reactions or the actions who never not to be practiced during the match. For example, to break the racket or to change it at each time when a ball is not well placed.

Thus, the fact of yielding to the care of change of the racket, without any objective reason, can influence the psychological potential of the player and affect the optimal level of its concentration.

Also and by superstition, with each time one changes a racket when the play is very beautiful, it is the contrary effect which will occur. Therefore, in general, one should change racket only when the play is not well or during the Set.

•  To revise and memorize the technical councils most important for not to forget them the day of the match (before and during the part). For example, the preliminary warm-up, the manner of avoiding the double-faults, the way of playing, the strategy and tactics to be adopted, the psychological councils, etc

•  To re-examine and memorize the strong points and the weak points of the adversary to prepare consequently.

•  To program psychologically the anticipated exceptional reactions which can answer to unexpected exceptional situations (behavior of the public, exaggeration of the referee, abnormal reaction of the adversary, etc)

•  To program psychologically the sporting behavior to adopt before and during the match; as well as the method and the means of recovery and relaxation. For example, in a very tight match where the psychological tension is very strong, it is always necessary to benefit from the entertainment of the public to release, recover and control the emotion and the nerves, and sometimes, when the play is not well, it is necessary to try to change some trick (wristband, headband and racket, etc.).

•  To envisage and prepare the sporting effects (clothing and shoes of sport, water, food and drinks energy, etc.) and never not to choose something again for the first time the day of the match.

•  To develop, reinvigorate and strengthen the psychological potential of the self-control and the self estimate. For example, one never should under estimating or to over-estimate the adversary, one never should start a match in a psychological state of weakness, of under estimate or over-estimate of oneself, one never should start a match in a state of pessimism or of excessive optimism, and, finally, it is always necessary to start a match with a great motivation, a great sensitizing on the stakes, and, especially, with a great conviction and a great will to gain it.

•  During  the time of match, to avoid making useless movements which can disturb the system of concentration, and to try to center our concentration on our position, our actions and reactions, our natural reflexes, our tactic of play and the sporting behavior and on the method of play of the adversary.

* In addition, for those which have the optimal level of concentration very weak, they can develop it through the exercise of certain sports activities of relaxation like the Yoga, the Table tennis, the Golf, the Shooting with the arc, the play of the Darts, the Billiards and the Parachuting.

P.S: For the match of today, they are the same instructions as those of yesterday. God preserves you! Go Ahead Maria! Good Chance and God Bless You! Kisses

Hello! Maria

Today, I would like to speak to you on 3 very important technical points in a match of tennis: 1) Slip on the ground. 2) Diversion in the tactics. 3) The psychological point:

Slip on the ground

The slip on the ground in the tennis court is a very fast tactic of displacement which can help the player to intercept a ball which is far from him and which can never catch up with him through his normal race.

Thus, with practical exercises of speed series and in the friendly matches, with some gymnastic sessions and with shoes of sport adapted to surface of the ground, the player can improve his displacement on the course of tennis and perfect his play on this technical side which is very important for a tennis player so that it can gain his match.

Diversion in the tactics

The diversion in the tactics is a technique which consists in choosing the play of the feints in various ways, so that the adversary thinks that our play is unpredictable and no has method; What causes in him a certain demobilization and a lack of concentration, from where lack of natural reflexes and a great probability of making faults in the defense system of its play, which gives the advantage to the player of leading the play to its manner and of gaining the match.

The best example in this idea is: when you see a player who remains inert in front of a bullet passing very close to him, while he can catch another ball which is so much further. It is a matter of natural reflexes previously programmed.

The psychological point

The psychological point is an action which consists in gaining the last point which can make it possible to the player to gain the match. This last part of the play (the psychological point) which is indicated by the score of 40/0, 40/15 or 40/30 is a stage of most sensitive and most delicate, because technically it represents the equivalent, in time and physical effort, of a whole Set, and, as of time, of 2 or 3 Sets when it is in GS of men.

From its very great importance in the match, this psychological point became very psychological and can sometimes cause a great crispation in the player, who can lead to a great contraction of his muscles and, sometimes, until a physical blocking of his movements and gestures.

It is this psychological importance which causes in the player a very great fear which can will make him lose until six (06) attempts at continuation (when the score is of 40/0) to gain this part (psychological point) and all the match.

Thus, the solution with this psychological handicap can be only in the psychological way above all, because, it acts to exceed the emotion, the nerves, the fear and the crispation which cause the contraction and the blocking of his muscles.

Consequently, it is necessary that the player relaxes him and discharge his tension through gestures and movements of relaxation and is not let carry by the feelings of the emotion, the fear and this crispation which blocks his muscles.

Therefore, the player can benefit from the diversion of the public or something like that to relax himself, change his frame of mind, to relieve himself, take again his calm and his confidence in itself (here, the smile and the kind gestures towards the adversary and the public are very important and appreciable), recover his forces to try to gain this last part of the psychological point through the chances which still remain to him with the rest of attempts (6, 4 or 2) and to win his match. Good Chance for the semis and good courage!. That God preserves you! Kisses