Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Matches are Just as Important as Your Coaching Lessons
I cant stress enough that Match play is vital to any junior wanting to improve their game.The more matches I believe lead to a greater skill level.Junior Tennis is about learning and honing your skill. Many are spending huge amounts on coaching but fail to get that vital tournament and match play experience.Below are the recent National 12s quarter finalists in both boys and girls with matches played and recorded on top dog after the 12 National Harcourt's and Teams event and until April 14Th the last update of top dog.Getting vital matches leading up to April Nationals as a coach would for me play a lot of importance so it was with interest I made this chart just to see what players are doing what. Boys winner Alex Klintcherov lead the boys playing 35 recorded singles matches on top dog,whilst Rosie Cheng lead the girls.I think a balance of quality ie playing better opponents yet also experience the winning feeling is very important when setting a tournament schedule.I think the charts are very revealing and improvement and ability can be matched against statistics such as these.
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Steve,
ReplyDeletewhile I agree with the sentiment and am certainly of the belief many of our players would benefit from fewer lessons and more games a look at who made it to Semi Final stage is interesting, particularly in the girls.
BOYS
Klintcharov (36 matches = 1st from chart)
Durie (18 = 4th from chart)
Hafezi (20 = 3rd)
Pannu (16 = 6th)
GIRLS
Suwanaposee (13 = 3rd)
Howell (8 = 7th)
Drew (6 = 8th)
Hourigan (9 = 5th =)
why do you think this may have been? Do you think it is a case, especially with the girls, they simply benefited from the high number of quality matches in the event and played better the further they went?
I think probably one area that I see looking at the top 8 boys and girls are that the boys are playing a lot more matches than the girls and that may be due to fewer entry's in events for girls in this age group.And looking into the semi final stage of the event that is very much the case.90 matches for the boys and 36 for the girls.The boys event in Wellington was a 64 draw whilst the girls was only a 32 draw.
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