THE "NOMINATED PLAYER" GAME: Training 3am
WHAT SEPARATES GOOD PLAYERS FROM GREAT PLAYERS AND CAN WE TRAIN IT SPECIFICALLY? DESCRIPTION For many years I have traveled with some exceptional players. The very best of these players reached top 10 ATP and top 20 WTA rankings. It was during these trips that I began to notice a certain quality that distinguished exceptional players from merely very good players. I began to notice that regardless of the circumstances, these few exceptional players would come on-court, either in practise or for competitive matches and strike the ball cleanly and without error immediately. It would also continue from the first ball until the last ball. This may not sound that unusual but this would happen regardless of time, place, weather, occasion or equipment issues. It occurred to me that if I could find a way to develop this ability by a systematic training process I could be training the very essence of what holds back very good players from becoming exceptional players.