Federer’s most documented idols were in fact Stefan Edberg and Boris Becker, when the chance to work with Edberg arose before the start of the 2014 season, Federer jumped on it and no doubt was very excited to be able to work with his idol. Not too many people will often get to say they [...]
Let me just start by saying that I didn’t create the post to just reinforce everybody of the fact that Mr. Federer is the best player of all time. I think every superlative has been used to describe him. My job with this post is to get you to think about which Federer you would [...]
Back in 2007 a young fresh faced young 18-year-old Latvian burst onto the scene with a straight sets demolition job of ours truly Tim Henman, yes I am indeed British for those who didn't know. For Henman this was indeed the twilight phase of his very respectable career and its true he was struggling for [...]
Wimbledon 2008. Its 2 sets to 1, 8-7 to Rafael Nadal in the 4th set tie break when Roger Federer unleashes one of the best backhand passing shots to date given the circumstances. Would a younger, tetchier, less physically developed, mentally frail, raw Federer been able to have pulled this off? Or to even be [...]
Hi everybody and welcome to my first blog post of hopefully more to come. This is the first of my Coaching Insight series. Unlike a lot of professions and 9-5 jobs, tennis coaching comes with unsociable working hours and usually requires some flexibility. Coaches must be prepared to work as late as 21.30 at some [...]
