Thursday Practice Report (10-Jan-2008)

Today, we got many kids and we had two special guests.

Tommy, Oscar, Jordan, Chris, Brian and Nicholas.
Covan and Cheung Sir joined us for a few training.

I brought a basket of new tennis today.
Many of them felt happy with playing new balls.
It is a fact that our challange is coming!

We first had some warm-ups.
Covan warmed up with Nichoals, I bet Nicholas must learnt a lot from him.
Tommy did some rally with Chris Wong. Both of them are consistent.
However, some kids ran to kick soccer and skipped some training.
I know, some of them were enthusiastic about soccer, but I bet training is more important than the fun.

Anyway, I think they have learnt at the end.

I fed some shots for Nicholas, Tommy and Cheung Sir, hitting a powerful shot to the net player, Chris Wong.
Chris got a firm volley, but he's still afraid of being a net player.
Cheung Sir hit many killer shots which made Chris feared.
Nicholas and Tommy were not that consistant, but they are very Topspin players.

One more drill for the baseline and volley players.

3 vs. 3.
Oscar and Jordan were back from the soccer field.
Jordan, Oscar and Tommy were the same team, played against Nicholas, Brian and Cheung Sir.
Jordan and Oscar were extremely inconsistent! They claimed that they didn't warm up yet! They hit to the net or out every shots! For the first set, they lost.

They got a punishment: suicide---touching the lines in the court.
Next, the second set, Brian left.
3 vs. 2.
Cheung Sir was great, hitting many powerful forehand shot which threatening the three kids.
Nicholas also did a good job, hitting the ball consistenly in the court.
However, the three kids still in their dark side... lost the game...

Service.
I'm afraid some of them would get many double fault in the Finneran Cup, the coming Sunday.
I told them to serve 30 balls in.
They served and served.
Oscar and Tommy seemed to be consistent.
Nicholas's serve got too much topspin.

After the 30 balls, we got the volley drill.
Some major errors: too much back swing, contact the ball too late or too early...
The net game of the kids should be focus more, right?

At the end of the training, a double.
Tommy and Jordan played against Oscar and Nicholas.
In the game, I found that many of them couldn't serve good... In other words, double faults.
I were disappointed by their service...
Ernest, next time, please focus on their serve...

Tommy was great, he tried intercept and hit some killer volleys. I do think that he is the only one improved in the net game.
However, all of them should be more and more consistent, in order to beat Simon and Raymond and all the old boys.
CONSISTENCE is a MUST!!!!!

Anyway, a good match for both of them.
What they need is the experience of playing tournament outside wahyan, which they will develop better in psychological views.

Ernest, I got some forms of the Lion Club. I will bring all of the form on coming Sunday. Some of kids had already filled in. One more thing, it is a fact that the lost of the tennis ball in wahyan is absolutely horrible! I lost at leat two can of balls today!!

Pray for the good weather on coming Sunday.
I hope the boys would practice more and be more consistent.