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Quantifying training load series – Importance of understanding the concept of an individualization

February 8, 2023 play.smart.tennis

Quantifying the training load and measuring it helps the coaches and athletes to understand the process progression at the practice and during or after the tournament. Information about the progression is crucial as the coach can understand which of the practice elements the athlete has already implemented successfully into the game. Systematically monitoring the physiological and psychological changes of the athletes’ performances, helps to determine the effectiveness of the practice and based on that to analyze the efficiency of the training program

TENNIS GAME – THE GAME OF MOMENTUMS

November 24, 2022 play.smart.tennis

Momentum measures the ‘motion content’ of an object and is based on the product of an object’s mass and velocity. For players to perform accurate strokes with high velocity, there should be an optimal combination of linear and angular momentum. The optimal combination depends on the urgency of movement, level of balance, perception of the situation and even level of confidence. With a creation of a larger momentum, greater forces and abilities are required from a hitter to decelerate to set up and execute a successful stroke

What my Doctoral Thesis Taught me: Tennis Training for the Future Champions

August 20, 2022 play.smart.tennis

Coaches teach tennis from the point of “racquet-ball” rather than movement and timing. Interception has two aspects, movement towards the ball to intercept it and create an impact point. This can differ from the concept of the hitting in which player can wait for the ball to approach before the impact. Even with the perfect contact point in which the ball lands at the string bed at the sweet spot, if the momentum of the hitter’s racquet movement does not match the movement momentum of the incoming ball, the stroke will not be satisfactory in intensity and direction

Tennis Skill Acquisition and Long Term Development

August 16, 2022 play.smart.tennis

We are not teaching tennis players to be automative machines but intelligent athletes that can recognize and adapt to the constantly changing environment. From acquisition to stabilization phase, we can not teach technical skills separately from the tactical skills

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April 18, 2022 play.smart.tennis

I would like to use the scientific approach to tennis and bring it in the easiest form to the tennis coaches around the world.

Understanding the movement patterns of the expert players can provide many data which we should use when developing tennis players.

These data showed that the more expert player is skilled in disguising his stroke intentions the more he places opponent to the disadvantageous position. Something worth to think about when talking about technical-tactical aspect of the tennis teaching