24-APR-2008 (Thursday Report)

I'm sorry that I was too busy last week and didn't update the blog.
Let's have some summary of last week.

Last Thursday, we would pleased to have our guest, Sam.
It was the first lesson for the F1 boys, but only one F1 boy called Kelvin came.

Sam played a single with both Tommy and Nicholas.
Expected, Sam didn't lose to them.
All in all, Sam told me that Nicholas is more threaten than Tommy because of his topspins. Sam said Tommy is powerful but the shots are similar to some of the Poly U players that easy to return, and not too many different spins.

Talking about the F1 boy, Kelvin.
He's good and only learnt tennis for half of years.

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Today, we had Tommy, Nicholas, Calvin, Ivan, Kelvin, Bryan and one new blood Ferrari.
Ferrari is a F2 boy who is Louvre's friend.
He told me that he's now learning tennis in HKTA's course.

At first, we had some formal hand feed drill like forehand and backhand.
I found that our players did improved on their footworks.

Later on, we had the drill about "in-side-out" forehand.
Tommy did best and had the powerful forehand, while Nicholas' in-side-out forehand is spin.
The new bloods did well.
Ferrari's baseline strokes is good and consistent but not that powerful. I bet, after some more training in wahyan, he will be a good consistent player in future.

Next, the chasing ball game of two courts.
Boys did well including Ivan and Ferrari.

The Champion.
It is fun that Ivan challenged Tommy many time.
Ivan seemed to be good but if he could have a larger back swing, he would be more powerful.
Moreover, Tommy and Nicholas seemed a bit hard when playing against Ivan. This is funny that our boys didn't know how to play against the "old man style" like Ivan.

Service.
Volleys.

Pleased that Nicholas and Tommy improved their game.
More solid and crispy.
Tommy and Nic are playing better and better at the net!!

Lastly, we had the "king of the court" for two courts.
Ivan beat all the lower form boys and he liked challenging Tommy and Nic.

I'm so pleased to see our boys' improvement, not only in games.
However, I heard that some boys did silly things against one of our team members.
I do hope that our boys to be more mature and considerate.

Coaching tennis is not only tennis, we are here to teach the right value to the boys, too.
Do pray for our boys in team.

Lastly, we would have training next Thursday morning at 10am.
Any old boys want to join?