Katarina Srebotnik from Slovenia has won the biggest match of her life winning 6-4, 6-4 against Serena Williams in the third round of the French Open.

Katarina was pretty much in form since she recently reached the finals of Strasbourg where she lost to Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-4, 6-7, 0-6.

Serena Williams on the other hand had to withdraw in the quarter-finals of Rome because of the back problem.

(more…)

How to handle the kind of pressure when in a tournament situation, a player is 4-5 up serving, and fails to finish the match due to what we call “elbow”?

The player gets so tensed up that he or she can’t perform at the level they suppose to.

Also; when you have players that are naturally tensed up players, how you teach them to train more relaxed, and then apply that skill in a tournament setting?

The reason why the players get tense when serving for the match is because they don’t want to lose this opportunity. If they miss the chance, they will feel very bad. (that is only their opinion - in reality, there is only a probability of winning and not a guarantee)

(more…)