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What is in a Champion? Why is Roger Federer so special? |
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Some of you may think because I did not stand-up for Roger Federer poor preparation for the French Open final that I do not like Roger!
You very far from the truth. Since Pete Sampras and before that John McEnroe, there is no other player that pleases me to watch play tennis more other than Roger Federer.
When I am critical of Roger it is because I believe he is capable of a lot more on the clay and because I sincerely doubt that he has ever prepared himself physically to win a clay court tournament such as Roland Garros. My perspective is simple, Roger has based his performances at Roland Garros on his talent and not in the hard physical work it takes to win a tournament that will take you well beyond your mental, tactical and physical resources.
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In Roland Garros - Roger Federer Fell Victim to his Lack of Respect for Jose Higueras! |
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Hiring a Coach means giving enough time for the Coach to work with you and prepare a tactical plan that will work against the player you want to beat!
Roger himself did not, but the pundits in the press made a grand fanfare, that this time Federer was taking Roland Garros seriously by presenting his new Coach Jose Higueras at the Estoril Open in April. Any expert and person knowledgeable of the tennis game would recognize, that a win in Estoril, a minor tournament with such low-level opposition, was totally meaningless to Roger Federer. He could have done the same stunt with a challenger!
The key though was to give José Higueras time to prepare Roger and that was literally not done, as the sequence of events shows, following an easy win in Estoril:
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Remembering Arthur Ashe - A Player of Exception! |
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Today I was looking through the Tennis Groups at Yahoo, when I came upon a group which had the picture of Arthur Ashe holding the Wimbledon 1975 Cup. I stopped to remember the Barcelona Open 1974! Yes that far back!
Then I was a qualifier in the Barcelona Open and during the tournament, through a request from Wojtek Fibak, I gave him the possibility to switch our qualifying spots for the Tehran qualies which at the time were also played in Barcelona.
The reason being for Fibak to have a bye (which I had in the Tehran draw) was so he could play only against Arthur Ashe the next day, instead of a Tehran match in the morning and Arthur in the afternoon on the same day.
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It may seem a paradox that we speak of the "ego", word that signifies the "I", and oneself at the same time. The I "ego" is in each thought, memory, opinion and even action that we carry out in each moment. Try to be a while without thinking about anything and you will notice that quickly an infinity of thoughts arise in your head. Your work, your friends, the family, your bank account, all of it will slowly parade in your head without any suggestion of your own.. We are speaking of your another "I". The psychologists call it egotistic mind.
How this mind affect the development of our tennis?
Primarily we should clearly know which is the difference between the "I" thinking (mind) and the "I" executor (our body). Especially when we say "I" is the ego the one that speaks, not you.
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Can biorhythms Decide The Winner at Roland Garros? |
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In this eternal search to find a reason to why things happen and how we function, humans invented the biorhythms. Many are total believers in it, while others consider it just plain hocuspoucus.
From the tennis competitive and winning edge point of view, could this be used as a factor? I have no idea! Let us explore.
Since I am open-minded (curious) and I believe one should test first, so I decided to look at one of these biorhythm websites and enter the players birthdates as requested and copy the chart results as well as the website explanation for the charts that reads:
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