Week 41 - ITF ($25K) - Toowoomba, Australia (Hard)

Etienne · Club Coach

Week 41 - ITF ($25K) - Toowoomba, Australia (Hard)

TennisLover · Strong Club Player

Etienne wrote:
R1: DUNNE, Katy (GBR) 295 v HOZUMI, Eri (JPN) 1 174 CH=144
2012 Australian Open Junior Championships AUS Hard Round 2 (Q) HOZUMI 3-6 7-6(6) 6-3
Unlucky to be drawn against the top seed, but at least it's not Galfi!

What's the problem with Galfi?

paulisi · Tennis legend

Galfi is junior no.1 and has beaten Katy twice recently and won the current tournament.

steven · Tennis legend

When I put the draw and H2H on Twitter:

Katy: "@GBtennis no way, I didn't realise that was her...i had mp's too!! Good to know, thanks! :)"no way, I didn't realise that was her...i had mp's too!! Good to know, thanks! :)"

So at least she knows she's capable of being very competitive with Hozumi - here's hoping!

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Good work Steven helping get Katy into a positive frame of mind for the fray :)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Bookies have Katy as slight favourite.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, this is what Katy's coach out there says:

http://goslingtennis.academy/2015/10/on-tour-with-katy-dunne/?utm_source=ReviveOldPost&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ReviveOldPost

You can't argue with the logic, I suppose, but you won't find many/any French coaches who put that out as their key strategy.

skibbarriz · Strong Club Player

Or Russian, it seems. Ive just been watching the Youtube Wimby vids of Anna Brogan vs Potapova and Freya vs Pervushina. Some very big hitting on display from the Russians, who both won. But i guess there is more than one way to skin a cat.

Grachka · County player

To be fair, he does explicitly say that he's not advocating passive tennis...but that getting it in court is the basic rule of tennis. Which is true. For every successful power player in the game now, there's probably a dozen power players that haven't made it because they can't get the ball in court often enough.

I'm also not sure that junior tennis is a great guide to what works in senior tennis, as most players aren't that adept at disrupting "power players" rhythm or introducing new plays to mix it up, which can have an effect if they aren't prepared for such plays (see what happened with Vinci, Schiavone in the twilight of their careers).

Peter too · Tennis legend

Katy 0-5*

LordBrownof · Futures level

Katy lost 6-1, 6-4.

TennisLover · Strong Club Player

The good old just getting the ball in. Then when you are good at that, you start trying to add quality. Oh! when you start trying to add quality, you find that the consistency starts going in the wrong direction. You then revert back to just getting the ball in - so the cycle continues and you find yourself heading nowhere.

My take for juniors and others - you can get the ball in by being aggressive/offensive. The ball doesn't have to be in always. What you need is 1. Mindset (most important) - embrace errors (it's part and parcel of the game) and improve to make less of it, which is enabled by 2. Technique. 3. Don't dwell too much on results. They come and go. Focus on developing 1. and 2. .................................. I can go on and on but will stop here.

-- Edited by TennisLover on Tuesday 13th of October 2015 07:54:00 AM

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Tough draw :(

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

vohor wrote:
Tough draw :(

Yes, the exact opposite of what paulisi was counting on when he was talking about Katy possibly picking up a bundle of points here..... cry

She's just won the doubles, though, 6-1 6-2

Guess 'In is King' doesn't always cut it......

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

I'm not sure how much this applies to Katy as she has not been at Goslings that long but the junior girls who have come up through their system have the reputation amongst other juniors of not making mistakes and being good at grinding long matches out, but also of being very predictable in their play and thus fairly easy for better players to beat. The coach's blog suggests that this is deliberate policy and that as they mature, more will be added to their game. However, agree with TennisLover, it is very hard to change a cautious mindset to become comfortable with more aggression (Heather Watson?) but easier to get a player comfortable with attacking tennis to rein it in a bit and pick their opportunities better. Sure other posters have a variety of views on this but FWIW this is mine!