Posts Tagged ‘Losing’

Do any of you guys think that Maria Sharapova is losing her grip on tennis?

i don’t have anything against her, she’s my absolute favorite. but since the ’05 (or ’06) U.S. Open (she won) i don’t think she is playing well. do you think she was busy with modeling or something? thanks!!
I’m asking for Wimbeldon 2008 cuz she lost in such an early round. do you think she’ll do well in the U.S. Open?

BNP Paribas Open 2011 – Novak Djokovic and Viktor Troicki after losing their doubles match

March 16th, 2011. Djokovic/Troicki lost to Bopanna/Qureshi, 6-1 7-6(5). There was only one golf cart to take all four players back to the players’ lounge, and since the winners were still being interviewed on court, Novak and Viktor started walking.

What are the chances of Roger Federer losing his 1st place ranking in the french open?

I want to know if it is possible for Federer to lose his 1st place, what is the worst case scenario?

Tennis Lessons – No Fear Of Losing

I have taught tennis players from all competitive levels not to dwell on past failures, but to keep moving forward, to always look ahead and never look back when.

I teach them that bad cycles will occur, so they should stay relaxed, wait for the cycle to change and the tide WILL turn….if they keep the right mental attitude.

I give them phrases like, “the next shot is more important than the last mistake.” Or, “in order to be good I have to make mistakes.”

I prepare them for the inevitable frustrations that will happen when they learn and play tennis. Does it work? Yes, most of the time, but sometimes the overwhelming negatives are just too much for the players’ emotions. As a result, they begin to analyze their foibles incorrectly. They whine, “All my practice and tennis lessons and look at what I have done! I couldn’t even make an easy shot. I’m such a horrible player.” Their focus goes off course; they drown in a flood of negatives. Usually all this drama begins because they are losing, NOT necessarily because they are playing poorly.

Let me tell you what tennis coach Robert Lansdorp saw in Maria Sharapova when he watched her play tennis at 14 years old. Even while she was suffering a devastating loss, throughout the entire match she continued to go for her shots again and again and again. Coach Lansdorp recognized this as the number one quality for a great player. You, too, should remember that if everything falls apart in your tennis game you can grab onto this one principle and ride out the storm!

In an article in Tennis Life Magazine (June 2005), the writer Alix Ramsay states: “By the time [Sharapova] was 14 and losing in her first professional tournament … Lansdorp knew he was onto something good. Mopping up the tearful teenager after she had been roughed up by an older, more experienced girl on the slow clay court, Lansdorp tried to convince Sharapova and Yuri [her father] that everything would work out all right in the end. Sharapova was going to make it.”

Lansdorp said, “I saw right there, the way she played: she played without fear. She wasn’t good enough that day because she would miss a ball, her shots weren’t accurate enough, but she had no fear of hitting it. She would never hold back or be afraid to lose. Every great champion, they have that when they walk on the court: they have no fear. They hate to lose but they are not afraid to lose.”

Did you catch the irony? Sharapova just got destroyed in a tennis match and Coach Lansdorp thinks she is unbelievably fantastic and is going to make it! What is this all about?

Before I go on, let me tell you something about Robert Lansdorp. He coached and was instrumental in the careers of Pete Sampras, Tracy Austin and Lindsay Davenport. I believe he may be someone we just might want to pay attention to! Maria Sharapova was brought to him for tennis lessons at the age of 11 because she had potential. Someone got that one right!

Did you notice that after Sharapova lost the match, Lansdorp did not say, “she is missing too much, that’s the big problem here. I have to straighten all of that out.” To Lansdorp, missing when she played tennis was irrelevant. Instead he keyed in on the fact that she had no fear of hitting the ball and no fear of losing. He totally ignored the loss!

Let me put this into simple terms for you. The most important principle to master when you play tennis is, “No fear of losing!”

Of course Lansdorp will go back to the drawing board with more tennis lessons and improve Sharapova’s consistency and accuracy, but that was NOT his main focus after the devastating loss. His focus was her mental attitude.

In Lansdorp’s mind she was a winner not because she won or lost a match, but because she lost with the correct mental attitude. This is the stuff of champions!

Champions do not win all the time – they just never give up trying! Maria Sharapova never quit in that match; she just kept swinging and swinging and swinging. To this day she is still swinging away when she plays tennis. In fact, she swung her way to a Wimbledon title!

Now wipe the frown off of your face, get back on the courts, play tennis and keep fighting…I don’t care how many times you lose! That is the stuff of champions.

Why is Sania Mirza losing tournaments?Is it because she is very impatient?

Anastasia Myskina who beat Sania Mirza, said the Indian lacked patience on the slower courts of Roland Garros

Why is Sania Mirza losing tournaments?Is it because she is very impatient?

Anastasia Myskina who beat Sania Mirza, said the Indian lacked patience on the slower courts of Roland Garros

Do you think Maria Sharapova is losing her spark?

Sharapova hardly plays tennis now and last year due to injuries. What do you think?
No, I don’t mean hotness. But according to my friends that are boys, she is hot. I’m talking about her skill in playing.

Despite losing his Rome crown, why is Novak Djokovic way ahead of Andy Murray in the rankings?

Isn’t it that if he loses to Nadal in the Rome final, he will not retain that number 3 position of his? Why isn’t it reflected in the current standings, as seen in the ATP site?

WTA Tennis- Sharapova Out of the Australian Open after Losing against Kirilenko in First Round

Russian tennis player and former world number one Maria Sharapova had a surprise loss against her compatriot Maria Kirilenko in the first round of the Australian Open in Melbourne. Kirilenko won 7-6, 3-6, 6-4 in three hours and 22 minutes, marking the first time her rival was eliminated so early in a Grand Slam circuit. Sharapova was unable to defend her title in the Australian Open in 2009 due to a shoulder injury; then, this Monday, she seemed hardly the shadow of the player who, two years ago, won the crown without dropping a set. She contributed to her own defeat with 66 unforced errors and 11 double faults. Kirilenko – 58th in the WTA – was secure in the match from the beginning, constantly annoying Sharapova – 14th in the WTA – with deep backhand strokes. Sharapova lost the first set after a tiebreak that left both players fighting for the set. In the end, however, Kirilenko won the set with a score of 7-6 (7-4), taking advantage of Sharapova’s mistakes. However, the 2008 Australian Open champion recovered her game in the second and broke Kirilenko’s serve to win the set 6-3. Nevertheless, in the third set, Kirilenko returned to control the game with her backhand strokes and escaped with a 4-1 advantage. Sharapova came back in the score with a 4-5, but Kiriklenko managed to take the match after Sharapova made a mistake at the end of the set. The third set ended 6-4, and the match went to Kirilenko. At the end of the match, Sharapova stated that she didn’t have any excuses for her loss and said that her compatriot played better and was more in control of her game than herself. The Russian also claimed that she had chances to win the game but that she didn’t take advantage of those opportunities. “I just didn’t win the match. You know, bottom line. I certainly had my chances and just didn’t execute. You know, I felt like, when she was up and then I’d get back there, back in the game, I just didn’t take advantage of that and let her control the situation again,” Sharapova said. Some have speculated that Sharapova’s shoulder injury, combined with rehab, has taken away her belief in herself. Sharapova, however, disagreed. “I wouldn’t say it’s ‘belief.’ I think ‘belief’ is either something you have or you don’t have. Whether it’s just a little bit of, umm, maybe confidence … Obviously it’s the first tournament of the year and, you know, I just came up against somebody that just played really good tennis. I mean, I could be disappointed or I could just take it as it is and just go back on the court and just keep working. I choose option two. It’s a bad day and you have to get on with your life,” said the Russian. With this victory, Maria Kirilenko is expecting to face the Australian Yvonne Meusburger in the second round.