🚨 POGACAR SE MUESTRA POR PRIMERA VEZ TRAS EL ACCIDENTE QUE LE HA DEJADO SIN VUELTA A ESPAÑA.
🚴♂️ El esloveno compartió una historia en Instagram con la canción 'Stayin Alive' de los Bee Gees; Fue trasladado a Barcelona, donde será intervenido, desde el hospital de Gandía anoche.
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Según informa @simonsaystennis, que ha presenciado el entrenamiento de Alcaraz en persona, el murciano ha perdido 1-6 2-3 ante Fils, cuando ya finalizaron la práctica de hoy.
Tennis is a very curious sport. I don't know anything else quite like it. Lots of players who've been playing it for, say, 5 years & more, & play 3 & more times per week have never been able to develop enough confidence and consistency in the basic shots of the game in order to use any tactics or strategy (I include myself in this). We don't believe we can control what direction the ball goes, how deep it goes or how heavy it goes to do anything more than try to hit the ball back into court repeatedly until the other player makes a mistake. I'd say that applies to almost all the social players I know.
That's not the same in other sports. Within 9 months of starting to play squash regularly I could use tactics and within 18 months I had very confident command of the technique of all the basic shots (albeit I still improved over the years). For badminton it was even quicker than that. I could play football enough to use tactics on a timescale similar to badminton. Croquet quicker than any of the above - by around the 3rd time I played I could use tactics, almost as quick as mastering a new card game.
Tennis is the only sport I've ever played where it seemed impossible to get enough of a hang of the technique of the basic shots to actually use any tactics - any intellectual element or fitness-focused element - in the game (& that in my case despite practising to improve my technique frequently). It seems to be almost entirely a matter of whose technique is better & hence who doesn't make a mistake first.
That's part of the fascination of it as a sport to me - that I'm so bad at it relative to any other sport I've ever attempted! It must be great to be able to hit a groundstroke under no pressure & know that if you hit it at medium pace & don't try to go too close to the lines then it will go in almost every time. That would unlock a whole intellectual world for the game - trying to put your opponent under pressure, move them around the court, create patterns for winning positions, deceive them, exploit their weaknesses, exhaust them or all the kinds of things I do routinely in squash or other sports. It must be fab to be able to do that in tennis. Maybe one day I'll get there!