The Tennis Coach Congratulates

Player of the Month

April

Alex

Alex has made major changes to his game in a very short time. It has taken 1 lesson a week for a couple of months, plus about 3 hours a week practice to achieve his technical goals.  The main thing Alex has going for him is his ability to comprehend exactly what you want from him and his ability to mimic any model (and to laugh and smile a lot).  He has learnt to:

• Use a eastern/semi western forehand grip (not a full western +)
• Initiating early prep phase on the forehand.
• Eradicated stop at the back of the forehand loop.
• Accelerate at both ends of hitting spectrum.
• Cock, lock and punch volleys.
• Stay side-on with his backhand slice.
• Minimize the downward forward path on slices to stop the chopping action.
• To keep his elbow up in the “trophy” position on serve.
• Slow down the serve take back.
• Hit certain speciality shots like drop shots, dinks and banana passing shots.

This is a lot of stuff for a youngster to digest and I'm quite flabbergasted at his ability to learn. Well done Alex