History Of The French Open Tennis Championship
Believe it or not, the French Open, renowned for being played on slow red clay, was initially played on grass!
The tournament was first played in Paris in 1891. In 1897, a women’s singles was added as well. But it wasn’t until 1925 that non-French players were allowed to compete.
There were no official championships during the war years of 1939-45.
The 1920’s were glory days for French tennis. On the Female side there was the legendary Suzanne Lenglen - known for both her daring fashion sense as well as her tennis.
And on the male side there were the famous Musketeers who defeated the US to win the Davis Cup in 1927 and held onto the cup until 1933. These 4 Frenchmen ignited French passions:
–Henri Cochet, Rene Lacoste, Jean Borotra, and Jacques Brugnon
Borotra, known as the ” Bounding Basque from Biarritz” always wore a blue beret on and off the court;
Lacoste, known as “the crocodile”, later designed the first tennis shirts -adorned with the insignia of a crocodile on the left pocket;
Henri Cochet, known as the “Ballboy of Lyons” so named because he grew up being a ballboy at local tennis clubs in Lyons; and
Jacques “Toto” Brignon. a brilliant stylist and doubles specialist.
Because of the excitement generated by the rivalry between the US Davis Cup team headed by the legendary Bill Tilden and the Musketeers, the tournament was moved in 1928 to its current home Stade Roland Garros. The stadium was named after Roland Garros , a famous French aviator, and former tennis player, who was the first man to fly over the Mediterranean Sea.
In 1928, the inaugural year at Stade Roland Garros , the men’s championship was won by Henri Cochet.
Unfortunately for the French, the success of French players has been limited since then. The last French man to win the singles title was Yannick Noah in 1983 and the last female was Mary Pierce in 2000.
Chris Evert holds the record for most singles titles won with 7. Bjorn Borg has won the most men’s titles with 6.
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2 Dangers of Tennis Rivalry
As tennis fans you may have witnessed the wonderful ongoing rivalries that have taken place between McEnroe and Connors, Agassi and Sampras, Graf and Seles, Federer and Hewitt and so on.
A rivalry can be a blessing or a curse depending on what it brings out in a person.
For young players today, there is a growing focus on becoming world beaters. More and more children hold the dream of someday playing on the circuit for a living. It is a very realistic and noble goal for many players that are coming through the ranks.
However, we must take a reflective look at how these children are developing. I believe there are potential dangers that can be avoided. Dangers that develop from rivalry?s that can turn sour in a heartbeat as someone makes a difficult line call or attempts to psyche out their opponent with needless babble.
1. Competition
The Latin root word for competition means ?to conspire together?. In other words, competition by its very nature is designed to bring the best out of each other by being our best. Too often rivalry?s that turn sour become focused on dragging someone else down so that the other can stay above their opponent. This goes against the true meaning of competition and reduces both players to under-development. Neither player gets to experience the growth that can come from being pushed to their limits.
2. Who will you turn to?
A rivalry that turns ugly may come back to haunt those who dream of playing on the tour. The circuit can be a lonely place. As a junior, whenever I travelled interstate we would always buddy up with the people from our home town. We looked for someone that we could talk to or hit with during the time away. What do you think happens when you travel overseas? The same sort of thing. There is no one around except those that you grew up playing against. People from your own country, those opponents that helped you develop your skills, will become the people you will want to turn to when you are on your own.
Think about it?
Who will you hit with? Who?s going to train with you? Who will be there to push you to do that 50th push-up when you want to sit down and watch TV? Who will be there to support you when you?re on the verge of gathering crucial points and prize money?
Create friendships and conspire together to make it onto the circuit. Watch that you don?t burn your bridges, living the lonely life on the circuit because of some childish rivalry that got out of hand when you were 13 years old.
Work together ? bring the best out of each other. If there is a suspicious line call ? give it to your opponent and find out how good you really are.
If your goal is to be the best you can be, then you are only ever competing with yourself. Opponents are really there to see how much you have improved. Be fair, be honest and buddy up with someone now who shares the same dream as you and together, you can both live out your dreams. Make your rivalry make you better.
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Tennis Long Team Development
Tennis not simple
Tennis want exhaustive, precise, steadfast, want just right time, coordination(hand, eye, foot), speed, determine and body strong.
The compete tennis each to share equally player will determine about 900-1000 time which each determine not to 1 second.
Also dominant tennis is stop and go which don?t like football or basketball they have continuously to play. Then tennis use thinking in mind with dead time middle point (20 second) period especially and period change side (1-1.5 minute) which play this build compression to competition.
Real fighter in one game to find that one in three this time have to hit tennis and two in three this time to expend to middle point and to change side. In time stop to play in mind will think in various ways.
Finally you not determination so mind nature/determination is player then player should control change interest to change back to quick from action to thought.
Regular is determination not continued to make efficiency use idea and determination to lowered technical error in stroke production.
The kind effect to mind and determination
- Knock out system player not course to make amends will feel to be beaten (children) and to contract in game.
- In time don?t know about end game because tennis don?t fix time same football.
- Don?t know start time because table to compete no fix time in table tell limited ?Followed by? wait long time to make bore and body not ready.
- Possesser confused to much about to play/train to play tennis children to be born compression and not confident Behaviour?s children not confident
- Not train
- Easy end to persevere when learn to new skill
- Not to persevere in compete time
- Hight set up to target to exceed true
- Find reference for avoid to lose/mistake
- In lose time have refernce or win tell fortune
How to champion in level young people international or professional
- Research find develop foe children to top sportsman use time 8-12 years
- For coach, sportsman and possesser mean train 3 hours for 1 day in 10 years.
- Call ?10 Years Rule?or ?10000 Hours Rule?
- Long term development Plan not short time
- Magority possesser and coach usually ?to come off? to stress in short time to pay attention to effect compete
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The Inner Game of Tennis: The Competency Cycle
Sports coaches have come to recognise that competency develops through four recognised stages. Understanding the stages of the competency cycle is a key aspect of mastering the inner game of tennis. It will also help you persist with your efforts to improve your tennis strokes.
The four stages are described below.
Stage 1: Unconscious incompetence
Before you start to improve a tennis stroke, you are often unconscious of what you are doing wrong. It may have to do with your swing, your stance, your grip or the way you address the tennis ball.
In this stage, you are not conscious of your specific incompetence though you may experience a sense of unease or dissatisfaction with the results of your effort. This dissatisfaction leads to the desire to improve the way you play tennis.
Stage 2: Conscious incompetence
Through your reading, coaching or observation, you have now become aware of what you are doing wrong. You may have been watching a slow motion video on YouTube and seen how Federer plays his backhand. You have identified an area for improvement, e.g. improving the way you grip the racquet to complete a backhand stroke.
You are now consciously incompetent, you are aware of your specific incompetence in relation to gripping the racquet for a backhand. You start to change your grip in practice and it feels very uncomfortable and you are not successful initially. One of the challenges at this stage is to unlearn established, unconscious habits.
It is important to persist despite the discomfort and frustration. This is where so many people drop out, give up and go back to their old way of doing things.
Stage 3: Conscious competence
If you persist with practising a better way (e.g. improving the way you grip your racquet for a backhand shot), you will start to feel comfortable with the new grip. You will also start to be more successful with your backhand shots.
The improvement in your backhand gives you positive reinforcement to keep up your practice.
You still have to make a conscious effort but you are acquiring the necessary competence, you are becoming consciously competent.
Stage 4: Unconscious competence
This is the stage where the new backhand grip becomes a part of your normal play, you do not have to think about it as you just do it naturally. It requires no conscious effort.
The old saying, ‘practice makes perfect’ is emphasising this stage of achievement. If you persist with conscious practice, eventually you will overcome old habits and replace them with new ones that are equally unconscious.
If you reflect on your game as you play tennis you will notice that there are many things that you do on a tennis court that represent unconscious competence, things that you do naturally or spontaneously, without conscious thought. These are the micro-skills you have built up over time.
As you progressively build from unconscious incompetence to conscious competence across a range of tennis strokes, you are building your inner strength and inner armour. You are developing your ability to win the inner game of tennis.
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