Tennis coaches and their sharing of teaching

January 8, 2016

Introduction

Julia starts to show strong interest on tennis coaches study after she wrote her first post about tennis coach Rob Steckley on Dec. 26, 2016. Specially, when she experienced the nervousness to prepare a 75 minutes coding assignment and rushed to find help, she knew that sometimes she let nervousness take over, domino effect may happen, because she is still a weak player without strong disciplines and a lot of trials and errors. Algorithm player and tennis sports are two sports Julia trains herself hard.

Julia knew that she had weakness on her English skills, she has to push herself write down something every day; and also, recently, she likes to clean out the blog page content, for example, do not show link url instead of showing some interesting context, pay attention to small detail, specially after she starts to learn aesthetics in design,  read the book the art of readable code (Part I. Surface-Level Improvements - chapter 4: Aesthetics); she learned a few things from stackexchange.com code review, when her posts were edited by various people.

Patrick Mouratoglou and Darren Cahill US open interview, Julia chose to study the interview again, and this time, she likes to document the coach's talk, how coaches help tennis player express the anger in the match, and how to relate to her own experience in sports and also in competition of software programming contests.

Workout 

Julia has to pay attention to her English skills, and then work on small task once a while. Take down notes from the coaches, and continue to do some research.

Will spend one hour to take notes first. Will come back very soon.

1:58pm
Darren Cahill:
Former coach of Agassi & Hweitt
1988 US Open Semifinals
Current coach of Simona Halep

Simona threw the racket - how did coach guide her on releasing her anger properly?
Consistency, consistency in the training. Consistency in the game plan, then be able to evolve as a tennis player as well, not stick to one thing at all; If something is not working, you have to find other ways to win in tennis matches. At the beginning to work with Simona, if something is not working, then bring out domino effect, a lot of loss of points afterwards, affect the game. She is doing much better right now, isolate that thing, move to something working.

In perfect world, no to Simona's action to throw racket on the ground. You want the player to keep those emotions inside. But she is Romania, she has a fire in the belly. They like to express themselves, especially Simona. And my biggest issues are if you do get angry, that is fine. But do not filter through next 2, 3 points, and let games get away from you. But we just need to get her a few rackets.