5 WAYS TO BOOST YOUR GAME AND START 2020 BETTER
TRAIN WITH A PURPOSE It always surprises me just how few players actually prepare for tournaments in a coordinated way. Perhaps the belief is that training before tournaments should basically continue on as before and that, hopefully, things should just “fall into place.” If you don’t train with a specific purpose, great results will most certainly be elusive. Here’s a suggestion for your training just before tournament time. Before each tournament, select one topic to focus on in practice and master that topic! Plan your next "work-on" and include it in your practice sessions before each tournament. Imagine if the topic you decided to improve on before the tournament was the Serve, particularly the wide serve. If you gave yourself 2 weeks to work on the wide serve how good do you think that particular serve would be in the following tournament? Now, imagine for the second tournament, you decide to work on your ability to create a wider backhand cross-court b...