World Tennis - Coaching & Equipment

Farewell Nick 🌹
A champion coach & bloke. Many wonderful memories .. thankyou ❤
You revolutionised the tennis world.
RIP ✌🙏🎾🇦🇺

Well said Rocket 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼❤

Persistence 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Amazing AO '22 🎾🇦🇺
Outstanding Aussies & Rafa 👌

For the record ...
* 100 year centenary of AO Ladies Championships.
* 40 Aussies qualify for maindraw events (23 male / 17 female).
* 2 Players deported for covid related reasons.
* Level 3 magnitude earthquake in Rawson, Victoria @ 3.12am, following the Ladies final.
* Rafa wins 2nd AO & 21st G/S singles title .. most ever by male player. Becomes 4th player ever to win all slams twice.

* Ladies Singles Title - Barty.
- 1st Aus lady winner in 44 years.
- 3rd Grand Slam singles title (1 on each surface).
- Similar to her Wimbledon title (50 years since Evonne Goolagong Cawley won).

* Men's Doubles Title - Kokkanakis/Kygrios.
- 1st all Aus AO final in 37 years.
- 1st Aus pair in 25 years to win.
- 1st wildcards to ever win AO Doubles title.

* Mixed Doubles Runners Up - Fourlis / Kubler.
- Wildcard entry.
- 3 of 8 semi finalists Aussies.

* Men's Singles - Ro 16 .. De Minaur.

* Boys Singles - Ro 16 .. Jones.

* Boys Doubles - Ro 16 .. Jin / Winter (w/c).

* Girls Singles - Semis .. Kempenaers-Pocz.

* Girl Doubles - Semis .. Kempenaers-Pocz / Preston (w/c).

** Retiring Legends **

* Quad Wheelchair Runner Up - Dylan Alcott.
- Titles .. 7 AO's, 15 G/S Singles, 8 Doubles, 1 Singles Golden G/S ('21), 1 Doubles G/S ('19), 3 Paralympic Gold Medals & 1 Silver (2 sports .. Basketball & Tennis), OAM recipient, Australian of the Year ('22) & a TV Logie Award .. WOW ❣
- Retires as World #1 (Joining Martina Hingis & Justine Henin as only people in history).

* Sam Stosur (Career highlights) -
- #4 WTA Singles
- #1 WTA Doubles
- 452 consecutive weeks as #1 ranked Australian Women.
- Titles .. 1 G/S Singles, 4 G/S Doubles, 3 G/S Mixed & 40 WTA Tour titles.
- Won all 4 G/S's in either Doubles or Mixed.
- Won US Open Doubles 16 years apart.
- 69 G/S maindraw appearances (most of any Aus male/female in history).
- 1st Aus Tennis player to represent at 5 Olympics.
- Played 20 Aussie Open's .. equals Lleyton Hewitt.

Incredible effort Aussies 👌🎾🇦🇺

Congrats Dylan 🇦🇺
Sensational 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Congratulations to 2022 Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott OAM.

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Legend 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Congrats Sam & Dylan ..
always inspiring 👌🎾🇦🇺

Wimbledon Champs .. sooo good 👌
Congrats Ash & Dylan ❤🎾🇦🇺

Knowledge 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Dominating 👍👍👍👍👍

'Dominating the world': Records tumble in crazy 10 hours for Aussie women Sally Fitzgibbons, Ash Barty and Hannah Green all made history in the space of about 12 hours.

Hill Running 👍👍👍👍👍

Six steps for mastering Hill Running

★1. Don't start thinking that you want to attack the hill. The key to running hills properly is to maintain your effort level (which translates into a slower pace on the uphill), so you don't waste energy and end up out of breath at the top of the hill (that's a common mistake among runners).

★2. As you approach an uphill, make sure you have good running form. Your arms should be at a 90-degree angle and should be moving forward and back (rotating at the shoulder), not side to side.

★3. Your back should be straight and erect. You can lean in very slightly from the hips, but make sure you're not hunched over.

★4. Concentrate on swinging your arms lower and shorter. By keeping your arm swing lower and quicker, your legs will stay lower to the ground resulting in a short, quick stride.

★5. As you reach the top of the hill, you can begin your normal stride again. If you ran the hill properly, you'd be able to pass runners who wasted too much energy on the hill.

★6. The best way to run downhill is to lean forward slightly and take short quick strides. Don't lean back and try to brake yourself. Try to keep your shoulders just slightly in front of you and your hips under you. Although it's tempting to overstride, avoid taking huge leaping steps to reduce the pounding on your legs.