Week 23 - WTA 250 - Viking Open, Nottingham (grass)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 23 - WTA 250 - Viking Open, Nottingham (grass)

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Coaches according to the LTA

Heather Watson: Alex Ward
Harriet Dart: Vuk Bolic & Biljana Veselinovic
Fran Jones: none given
Sam Murray Sharan: David Sammel
Jodie Burrage: David Felgate
Katie Swan: Esteban Carril, Julien Picot
Katie Boulter: Jeremy Bates
Naiktha Bains: Gurnake Bains
Katy Dunne: Richard Hawkes
Emma Raducanu: Matt James

junior · Intermediate Club Player

" It is almost impossible to coach the mental side and the players need to release their frustrations".

Had a lot of time to re-think this one before sending it.....

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RedSquirrel wrote:
Coaches according to the LTA

Heather Watson: Alex Ward
Harriet Dart: Vuk Bolic & Biljana Veselinovic
Fran Jones: none given
Sam Murray Sharan: David Sammel
Jodie Burrage: David Felgate
Katie Swan: Esteban Carril, Julien Picot
Katie Boulter: Jeremy Bates
Naiktha Bains: Gurnake Bains
Katy Dunne: Richard Hawkes
Emma Raducanu: Matt James

I seem to remember that Matt has stopped as coach for Emma Rad?

Maybe I've got that wrong ....

Is Naiktha really still coached by her dad?

the addict · Tennis legend

I'm sure I saw David Felgate courtside during Jodie's match yesterday - not so easy to tell with mask and a brief camera shot though.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Finally found some outright odds (Bet365):

emmsie69 · Top national player

Re Mentalality, the best you can do is give a player the tools to manage it themselves, exactly the same as any other person in therapy, what they do with it is down to them. I'd probably stick Jodie in a room rewatching all the matches where she fell apart and then teach her management techniques.

emmsie69 · Top national player

I quite fancy those odds for Katie Boulter and Harriet

flamingowings · All-time great

emmsie69 wrote:
Re Mentalality, the best you can do is give a player the tools to manage it themselves, exactly the same as any other person in therapy, what they do with it is down to them. I'd probably stick Jodie in a room rewatching all the matches where she fell apart and then teach her management techniques.

The other thing about therapy (or anything similar e.g bad relationship, addiction etc) is you have to ** want ** to change...

emmsie69 · Top national player

flamingowings wrote:
emmsie69 wrote:
Re Mentalality, the best you can do is give a player the tools to manage it themselves, exactly the same as any other person in therapy, what they do with it is down to them. I'd probably stick Jodie in a room rewatching all the matches where she fell apart and then teach her management techniques.
The other thing about therapy (or anything similar e.g bad relationship, addiction etc) is you have to ** want ** to change...

For that to happen1st the person has to recognise there is a problem, hence putting her in a room to rewatch her matches

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Fran breaks back, *4-4. Any way (for those in the UK) to watch this, other than betting sites? I guess the LTA's YouTube never really took off?

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

I thought Fran had lost the first set for some reason, but upon checking the score again, she is now leading 6-4 *2-2, with a game point here.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Fran was twice broken from game point up, eventually losing it 6-3.

Up *2-1 in the third.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Fran lost the second 3-6.

With Garcia's height, she's quite formidable on grass - I've seen her at Surbiton.

But in the third, she's (Garica) now having a long MTO. For neck and shoulder problems, it seems.

PaulM · Tennis legend

And Fran loses her break advantage and now in danger at *3-4