[ATP Tour # XXXIX] Het Centrale Tennistopic

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Op maandag 19 april 2010 18:37 schreef kevin_ het volgende:
Nalbandian ook out .

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Op maandag 19 april 2010 19:43 schreef Federer-fan het volgende:

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Nee, inderdaad. Is de reden al bekend?

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Op maandag 19 april 2010 19:25 schreef Federer-fan het volgende:

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Ik heb nog nergens een officiële bevestiging gezien, alleen speculatie op dat forum.

Edit: nu wel, op de officiële site. Ik zie alleen nergens staan dat het wegens zijn knie is; dat ligt misschien voor de hand maar het hoeft het niet te zijn.

Hij schrijft: "I am really sorry not to be able to play in Barcelona, more than any other tournament, but this year after the win in Monte Carlo my body is asking me to rest." Hij heeft 14 games verloren in het hele toernooi.

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Op maandag 19 april 2010 18:29 schreef Szura het volgende:
Wordt ie dan eindelijk verstandig?

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Op maandag 19 april 2010 20:42 schreef jojomen4 het volgende:

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Als jij nou ook nog eens verstand krijgt dan kunnen we de lieve heer niks meer vragen. Jij snapt het allemaal nog steeds niet.

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Op zaterdag 17 april 2010 09:51 schreef Federer-fan het volgende:
Leuk artikel over de psychologische kant van tennis, van tennis.com.

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This week I talked to Fox for a magazine story I’m writing about how to approach, from a mental perspective, various stages of a match—the first game; the game after you’ve broken serve; if you're way ahead; match point, etc. In the middle of our conversation, he observed that tennis’s scoring system may be the most stress-inducing of all sports'. It’s one of the very few that isn’t purely cumulative; there are pressure moments built into the score—ads, games, sets—all the way through a match. These are particularly nerve-wracking because they’re all-or-nothing situations. If you play a long deuce game and lose it, you end up with nothing; ditto if you play a long set and lose it. You can win six games and dozens of points, but if you lose a tiebreaker, you walk away with nada. It’s a sport designed to keep you from escaping pressure. I’m rarely as nervous in a match as I am after I’ve come back from 0-40 on my serve to 30-40. I know that one shank will render my good work over the previous two points worthless.

From my experience, which wasn’t contradicted by the pros at Monte Carlo today, stress works equally on the player who’s winning and the one who’s losing. It’s a cliché of the sport that, right after you break serve, you’re in danger of being broken right back. That’s because you’ve done the natural thing and taken a mental breather after pushing hard and going through the tension of trying to break your opponent. Conversely, if you’ve been broken, you may react by letting your mental guard down and getting discouraged. Either way, you’re doing what we all do automatically: You’re running from the unpleasant experience of stress. I’m particularly, maybe even unnaturally, guilty of running as fast as I can from it on a tennis court. I’ve lost matches because, in the back of my mind, I was afraid to build a lead. I knew that if did I build it, I would then be faced with the horrible pressure of not blowing it. Call it pre-choking.