Madison Keys tennis player study

Sept. 17, 2017

Introduction

I was advised a few times on Burnaby city tennis courts to study woman professional tennis players, and see how they plays. Tennis sports is such a quick pace sports, I have to catch up a lot of study in order to learn and know players. Today I like to spend 20 minutes to study a player Madison keys, basically my study is to focus on how the player thinks and how to solve problems.

Study of a tennis player

The most favorite study is to watch the interview of Madison Key after Rolan-Carros 2016. Eight minutes video is here. She is a young player, only 22 years old, prize money is around 7 million dollars.

9/19/2017 8:30 PM
Madison Keys press conference (SF) - Australian Open 2015, 20 years old Madison shared her thinking about success, motivation to work hard and showed her great manner to handle the tough questions. The video of 11 minutes is here.

Most of my favorite time is to watch her practice. The four minutes is here.

9:07 PM
2017 US open: Madison keys QFs Press Conference, 9 minutes interview is here.
Nervous and how to handle it? 1:00 - 1:27, 27 seconds
Coach helped her - an example, 1:30 - 2:00, 30 seconds
Low moments, dark moments, 3:00 - 3:30, 30 seconds
Americans in QF? talked about opposite first, then go to the topic. Starting from 5:20
Talk about fear. Start from 6:06 PM.
It is not you make people happy, you win matches. It is because you are truly like to be out there. 6:50 - 6:57.
Opportunity as an individual? Take this tournament one match a time, one game a time. I am definitely not getting  ahead myself that way. I am really proud of myself to get here the first place. Starting from 8:00 - 8: 30

10:11 PM
Madison took the interview when she was 16 years old.

US Open Wild Card Exclusive Video: Womens Champion Madison Keys Press Conference. 10 minutes interview is here.

3:16 - go in and prepare like any other match. Do not make it a big deal, otherwise you come in and completely nervous. You will be over thinking, so (3:24) I have to go in and treat it as any other match.