A drill you might find useful is high tempo rallying. Warm up rally for 10 or 15 minutes. Next, count how many shots you and your partner can rally in 60 seconds. Repeat the 1 minute timed rally until you've beaten your original number by at least 2 hits. Repeat the drill crosscourt on both halves of the court.
You did well. Just follow through on your observations and you will improve greatly. Just my own two cents - don't afraid to go for your shots at every opportunity even if you feel like you tend to miss them at the start. Just adding that intensity and agression to your game will naturally put pressure on your opponent and they will have to be on their toes mentally. You've got good slice that you can use to bait a short slice ball from your opponent and then try to finish that ball with an aggressive forehand/backhand and come to the net. Good luck on your tennis journey!
Interesting video. Putting on my psychologist hat for a sec I think you are right when you say you have to work on the mind or psychology before, during and after the game. You mentioned before the game you were going to focus on the ball. That's ok but I wouldn't suggest you do to much of that. The reason is the ball is the key part of the game and your brain already knows that and letting and if you focus to hard then you are actually thinking way to much and in tennis thinking cost time. Your brain will know where the ball is going just trust it. That allows you to look at getting "wins" these are goals you set during the game and it might be as simple as returning a serve or a shot. This kind of psychology is mainly practiced during your practice sessions and its just you at first setting simple goals or "wins" that you can 100% achieve. As you get better at this the wins you look for become harder and you can look to include a few wins from chats with you coach ( but you always have to have the final say otherwise your brain at some point will just opt out and say no way. Remember its about winning but on your way to the top you have to get the wins you want even if you lose the match that way you build a winning mindset and improve your chances of winning in the future.
Great video Cam! As you say, your improvements will happen over time. But as long as you're improving by 1% everyday, you're moving forwards. But dont beat yourself up about your match. Your opponent was playing some high level aggresive tennis and he wasn't allowing you to play for large portions of the match. Keep going mate👍👊
Maybe next time you get an opportunity you could try step in and attack! The serve occasionally at times you seemed to be getting stuck on baseline middle of match you did come in with confidence and that was great then you had that bad call, well done 👍 to you both getting in the match.
What's the end goal here? You've lost your last 10 ITF matches, you've clearly got huge motivation and drive but maybe it's time to put that work rate into something else?
Mate, stop reading some stupid as* comments. You love what you do, go for it. There's some work to do? Sure. Karue is living the dream at 30+ yo. If you're planning to play ITF tournaments on fast surfaces like this, you really need to work on your serve. You need a way better flat serve and slice serve too. Get some cheap points, start entering more in the scoreboards on the matches with that and the rest of the game will start clicking by itself. Serve, serve, serve. You have the body structure, just need to put some hundreds of serve reps in. Video tape your technique, fix what is needed and you'll feel way more at this level than what you're now.
Not trying to discourage u or anything but man, u r not even close to competing on the ITF level, let alone challengers and ATP, time to refocus and get back to reality and stop wasting time and resources travelling to tournaments
Very simple math your backhand in the rallye is too weak...the slice is a little bit over average but it must be played with more quality and agression, your opponent was not on full throttle he outplayed you without giving some serious firepower into the game...start train more agressiv shots and more intensity with more raquethead speed, my man you are a tenniscoach look at your game what did you miss, i saw a player his intention was to make no mistake this ia how it ends...keep grinding start firing.
You should pack it in and play at county level. Felix from tennis brothers seem to have spawned people who clearly are not good enough. If you are clearly just doing it for content than that’s fine but your far from even sniffing a win let alone a trophy…
A drill you might find useful is high tempo rallying. Warm up rally for 10 or 15 minutes. Next, count how many shots you and your partner can rally in 60 seconds. Repeat the 1 minute timed rally until you've beaten your original number by at least 2 hits. Repeat the drill crosscourt on both halves of the court.
This can also be done using a raquetball wall if you don't have a hitting partner.
You did well. Just follow through on your observations and you will improve greatly. Just my own two cents - don't afraid to go for your shots at every opportunity even if you feel like you tend to miss them at the start. Just adding that intensity and agression to your game will naturally put pressure on your opponent and they will have to be on their toes mentally. You've got good slice that you can use to bait a short slice ball from your opponent and then try to finish that ball with an aggressive forehand/backhand and come to the net. Good luck on your tennis journey!
Interesting video. Putting on my psychologist hat for a sec I think you are right when you say you have to work on the mind or psychology before, during and after the game. You mentioned before the game you were going to focus on the ball. That's ok but I wouldn't suggest you do to much of that. The reason is the ball is the key part of the game and your brain already knows that and letting and if you focus to hard then you are actually thinking way to much and in tennis thinking cost time. Your brain will know where the ball is going just trust it. That allows you to look at getting "wins" these are goals you set during the game and it might be as simple as returning a serve or a shot. This kind of psychology is mainly practiced during your practice sessions and its just you at first setting simple goals or "wins" that you can 100% achieve. As you get better at this the wins you look for become harder and you can look to include a few wins from chats with you coach ( but you always have to have the final say otherwise your brain at some point will just opt out and say no way. Remember its about winning but on your way to the top you have to get the wins you want even if you lose the match that way you build a winning mindset and improve your chances of winning in the future.
Awesome video! Great experience, keep it up and never set limits on your beliefs of what you can achieve!
Great video Cam! As you say, your improvements will happen over time. But as long as you're improving by 1% everyday, you're moving forwards.
But dont beat yourself up about your match. Your opponent was playing some high level aggresive tennis and he wasn't allowing you to play for large portions of the match.
Keep going mate👍👊
Maybe next time you get an opportunity you could try step in and attack! The serve occasionally at times you seemed to be getting stuck on baseline middle of match you did come in with confidence and that was great then you had that bad call, well done 👍 to you both getting in the match.
You need to drop further back when you do week returns or short. This will give you a chance to steal points
Is this qualifyings or main draw?
Did you get any prize money for first round?
What's the end goal here? You've lost your last 10 ITF matches, you've clearly got huge motivation and drive but maybe it's time to put that work rate into something else?
The goal is to turn pro full time obviously
Chill!
what strings + weight do you use
You do you. Just keep on keeping on. Don’t read the comments.
You are a solid player, you just need more aggression in your game, which you are aware of.
Even Felix is not good enough but he is trying and that's all you can ask for.
Felix v Cameron who is winning???
@@steven74335felix
@steven74335 not you.
@@JAM-fm8lt what
@@steven74335 Felix is currently at a higher level.
Slicing is fine! The quality of your slice needs improvement. Just my 2cents :)
Mate, stop reading some stupid as* comments. You love what you do, go for it. There's some work to do? Sure. Karue is living the dream at 30+ yo. If you're planning to play ITF tournaments on fast surfaces like this, you really need to work on your serve. You need a way better flat serve and slice serve too. Get some cheap points, start entering more in the scoreboards on the matches with that and the rest of the game will start clicking by itself.
Serve, serve, serve. You have the body structure, just need to put some hundreds of serve reps in. Video tape your technique, fix what is needed and you'll feel way more at this level than what you're now.
Not trying to discourage u or anything but man, u r not even close to competing on the ITF level, let alone challengers and ATP, time to refocus and get back to reality and stop wasting time and resources travelling to tournaments
Dont quit your day job Cam.....💩💩💩💩💩💩
Very simple math your backhand in the rallye is too weak...the slice is a little bit over average but it must be played with more quality and agression, your opponent was not on full throttle he outplayed you without giving some serious firepower into the game...start train more agressiv shots and more intensity with more raquethead speed, my man you are a tenniscoach look at your game what did you miss, i saw a player his intention was to make no mistake this ia how it ends...keep grinding start firing.
You should pack it in and play at county level. Felix from tennis brothers seem to have spawned people who clearly are not good enough. If you are clearly just doing it for content than that’s fine but your far from even sniffing a win let alone a trophy…
Why do you want him to die and let his dream die?
He’s probably way better than you 😂
@@josep9599 he has to be better than his opponents which his far from it, not me regardless if he would smash me or not🤷