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markymc1983


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Ratty wrote:

I suspect that any benefit is fleeting.

Successful people in any walk of life are self-confident "from within". It is part of their personality. Their self-confidence is not materially affected by day-to-day successes and failures. 

If you need success to boost your self-confidence, then I doubt that you have the resilience to be a successful tennis player. Or indeed, a successful anything ....

   



 This is a bit of a dogmatic view of the human psyche gee wizz



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Ratty wrote:

I suspect that any benefit is fleeting.

Successful people in any walk of life are self-confident "from within". It is part of their personality. Their self-confidence is not materially affected by day-to-day successes and failures. 

If you need success to boost your self-confidence, then I doubt that you have the resilience to be a successful tennis player. Or indeed, a successful anything ....


A fleeting benefit is better than no benefit at all !

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Bad diagnosis for Tara - Taken from her twitter

''I am on crutches as I have torn my quad, lay off now but hopefully not a long one. I won't be playing Stockholm thats for sure.''

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Up to 2 months out depending on the severity, real shame.

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Some people get all the bad luck. Let's hope she's fit and playing well again in time for the grass court season, she might recover points if she can get some decent results over the summer period.

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philwrig wrote:

Ratty wrote:

I suspect that any benefit is fleeting.

Successful people in any walk of life are self-confident "from within". It is part of their personality. Their self-confidence is not materially affected by day-to-day successes and failures. 

If you need success to boost your self-confidence, then I doubt that you have the resilience to be a successful tennis player. Or indeed, a successful anything ....

A fleeting benefit is better than no benefit at all !
... especially if it helps you through another tight match and gets you more and more used to coming through them!

I can see what Ratty is getting at with his last paragraph, but given that most of the top 10 players in the world have purple patches and at least minor slumps which appear to be partly confidence-related, I think what evidence there is suggests that needing success to boost your self-confidence and having the resilience to be a successful player aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

 



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Smidster wrote:

Bad diagnosis for Tara - Taken from her twitter

''I am on crutches as I have torn my quad, lay off now but hopefully not a long one. I won't be playing Stockholm thats for sure.''



That is bad news.  Very sorry for Tara.  Exactly what she didn't need  cry 

Though after her Q1 unexpectedly tight win she reported :  "Ouch. Quad not looking good. Happy to limp myself to a first round win though, wish these injuries would go away!"

Possibly not clear when the main / final damage occurred, but I don't know why on earth she played nearly a set of Q2.  Whatever, it didn't help !   no

Seems to me very poor decision making and / or advice.



-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 3rd of February 2011 01:57:35 PM

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I got fed up of waiting for the results so I 'phoned the tournament office. Naomi won 7-5 6-2 but Katie lost 3-6 6-1 2-6.

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Naomi back in the top 250 with this run.

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Katie's effort respectable, Naomi's result expected, long may Naomi's current form continue.

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QF: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 292 v PAVLOVIC, Irena (FRA) 7 218

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I reckon Naomi is good stead for a Wimbledon MD wildcard and that might really push her on =) Has anybody seen her play? Could you guestimate a peak ranking for Naomi as I have no idea

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R2 results in full

Kristina Mladenovic (Fra) bt Katie O'brien (Gbr) 6-3 1-6 6-2 cry
Irena Pavlovic (Fra) bt Patrycja Sanduska (Pol) 6-4 6-1
Naomi Broady (Gbr) bt Elixane Lechemia (Fra) 7-5 6-2 smile
Mona Barthel (Ger) bt Irina Buryachok (Ukr) 6-3 6-3
Marta Domachowska (Pol) bt Audrey Bergot (Fra) 5-7 6-4 6-2
Iryna Kuryanovich (Blr) bt Stephanie Vongsouthi (Fra) 6-4 6-2
Elise Tamaela (Ned) bt Amandine Hesse (Fra) 6-4 6-4
Katarzyna Piter (Pol) bt Sina Haas (Ger) 4-6 6-3 6-4,


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I saw her playing at Wrexham last summer when she was in a bit of a slump. Her slow movement is by far the weakest part of her game. When she's playing well her serve and her one handed backhand are by far the strongest parts of her game. I would say top 150 is the best she could conceivably do. Top 200 should be the minimum peak ranking IMO.

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Some doubles news:

L16:

LAINE (FIN) / SOUTH (GBR) (1) BYE
LYKINA (RUS) / ZAJA (GER) defeated BORTHWICK (GBR) / WINDLEY (GBR) 6-0 6-4 cry 
TAMAELA (NED) / YAKIMOVA (BLR) (3) BYE
BERGOT (FRA) / KURYANOVICH (BLR) defeated HENKE (GER) / REMONDINA (ITA) 6-4 6-3
MURRAY (GBR) / RICHARDS (GBR) defeated BAMBURAC (GBR) / BANOS-GREGORIANS (GBR) 6-4 6-1 smilecry
KLASCHKA (GER) / OZGA (GER) (4) defeated ELLIOTT (GBR) / MICHEL (SUI) 6-4 6-3 cry
BROWN (GBR) / DEAN (GBR) defeated ALPAY (GBR) / STARLING (GBR) 6-1 6-1 smilecry
DOMACHOWSKA (POL) / JURAK (CRO) (2) BYE

QF:

LAINE (FIN) / SOUTH (GBR) (1) defeated LYKINA (RUS) / ZAJA (GER) 6-1 6-4 smile
TAMAELA (NED) / YAKIMOVA (BLR) (3) defeated BERGOT (FRA) / KURYANOVICH (BLR) 6-7(4) 7-5 [10-5]
MURRAY (GBR) / RICHARDS (GBR) defeated KLASCHKA (GER) / OZGA (GER) (4) 7-5 6-4 smile 
DOMACHOWSKA (POL) / JURAK (CRO) (2) defeated BROWN (GBR) / DEAN (GBR) 6-1 6-7(4) [10-4] cry 

SF:

LAINE (FIN) / SOUTH (GBR) (1) Vs TAMAELA (NED) / YAKIMOVA (BLR) (3)
MURRAY (GBR) / RICHARDS (GBR) Vs DOMACHOWSKA (POL) / JURAK (CRO) (2)

The semi-finals should've finished by now, but no results yet.



-- Edited by SMC1809 on Thursday 3rd of February 2011 05:44:27 PM

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