Tennis Training on Clay

Andy Roddick was both the last American to win a men’s

grand slam event (the 2003 U.S. Open) and the last to compete for one (losing to Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2009). It’s by far the longest stretch of time without an American winner since the Open era began in 1968. Only one American man is currently ranked in the ATP top 10, only two in the top 20, and only three in the top 50.

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From The New Republic

Rose Garden, Buenos Aires, Argentina

According to the chronicles, a man named Juan Domínguez Palermo and was born in Sicily, a place that, in times of coming into the world depended on the Kingdom of Aragon.That’s why he could be part of the Spanish elite settled with Don Juan de Garay.The fact is that back in 1590, the Sicilian married Elizabeth, daughter of Miguel Gomes Gate and Saravia, a Spanish who had been awarded Garay lands that now comprise the neighborhood.Thus, the farms that were in the area and Juan Domínguez Palermo joined the then Elizabeth would inherit from his father.

Of course, another story told a woman he called “Palermo” a stream of the area, he said, made him recall to that Italian city.And that’s why he took the name fields.But the first is to accumulate more credit among historians.

Then in 1836, would the question of Juan Manuel de Rosas and his home in San Benito de Palermo, a name determined by how the area was called the predecessor and a chapel of that saint black, was the fifth of Unzué.Rose’s residence was in what is now the intersection of Avenida del Libertador and Avenue Sarmiento.And it was dynamited in 1899.

Those were the days when the Chavango Avenue (now Las Heras) was notorious nightclubs (one of the most noted was the so-called First Light) in which not only ran the gin, so did the blood after a knife fight, those that were made with short steel sheets, a sign of good fighter outskirts.The longleaf, they said, were for the cowards.

That reputation for marginal zone in the vicinity of the present Coronel Diaz Avenue, made the place was known as “Tierra del Fuego,” for being so harsh.And that is what gave rise to the warning that once made a handsome face a potential adversary, “Stand back, I beg, I am of the Tierra del Fuego.”These events occurred in the shadow cast by the high walls of the National Penitentiary (occupied what is now the Parque Las Heras), inaugurated in May 1877.The demolished in 1962 but is still remembered there shot the anarchist Severino Di Giovanni typographer (1 February 1931) and General Juan José Valle, leader of an uprising in favor of Peronism (June 12, 1956).

And on the avenue Chavango was where I first tram powered by electricity ran through Buenos Aires.The trial occurred on April 22, 1897 in the section from Scalabrini Ortiz to the area of the gates (now Plaza Italia), elsewhere difficult environment, as we remember the tango Three friends , the work of Enrique Cadícamo: “A Once back in Gates, saved me from death / never miss bumping when a poor sports. “Twenty years later, the network of trams Buenos Aires was about 900 kilometers of roads, 3,000 vehicles and 100 routes.

The days of knife, dancing and milongas with unholy living atmosphere, would be reflected in the writings of Jorge Francisco Isidoro such a Luis Borges, “Georgie” to his intimates.As the notoriety surrounding the Maldonado, a stream that takes its name from the legend of a woman who had arrived with the expedition of Pedro de Mendoza and was punished and left for the mountain lions killed, something that did not happen because the protected animals themselves.But that’s another story.

From: http://www.clarin.com/ciudades/Palermo-apellido-barrio-cuchilleros_0_502749789.html. By Eduardo Parise.

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Dynamic warm-up and Stretching

Anyone who practices sports, plays tennis or dances tango knows the importance of being healthy and fit. Our daily activities are affected by the way that we take care of ourselves physically and mentally.

Tennis, like life, is a never ending improving process. There are many different factors that help to influence our performance. Diet, working out, sleep, mental….at the end what we see is a balance between internal factors (genes) and external factors (environment). The better the balance, the better we’ll be ready to face our challenges. There is not much that we can do about our genes, but there is a lot that we can do to help them.

Warm-up

Prior to any physical activity, we should always prepare our body to what it is going to do. In the past, people were told to do some static stretching before entering the tennis court, for example. Lately, it has been shown that stretching is recommended post any physical activity and not before. Stretching helps to maintain and improve range motion during the cool down phase of any activity.

It is interesting to pay attention to the words that we use. Why stretching, a static process, when in fact what we want to do is gradually be ready to run, jump, hit, etc. before dancing tango or playing tennis?

How can we prepare our body before any physical activity? Warm-up is the answer. By mimicking the movements to the event and gradually increasing the intensity of them. The basic idea is to gradually increase the temperature of our body -of our muscles.

In addition, warming-up increases blood flow and the transport of chemicals like fat and carbs helping to the overall performance of the muscles.

In tennis, before start hitting, one should be able to do some jogging around the court, some lunges, arm circles, trunk twists, etc. for at least 10 minutes. Then, one can do some polite hitting like volleys, groundstrokes, rallies and serves. The idea is to gradually increase the intensity to avoid any possible injury. Some players, before going to the court, they even take a hot shower to warm-up their muscles.

As a tennis-pro one mentioned to us, the way that we are going to play our match is going to depend on the way that we warmed-up. If we hit like crazy during the warm-up; then we will play the match with no control, probably loose and get hurt.

Save the stretching for the cool-down -after the match.

Cool-down

We had a fun and long match, we tried our best and luckily, we won! Now, is time to relax and cool-down. But, we should better hurry up because we should do that while our muscles are still warm.

In order to improve our range of motion, relax our muscles, prevent the risk of injuries and reduce muscle soreness while increasing their flexibility; we should always stretch after any physical activity like dancing tango, for example. In the case of tennis, we should stretch all major muscles. Tennis is a whole body work out.

In summary, do dynamic warm-up before the match and do static stretching after the match -while cooling-down.

References:

http://www.southern.usta.com/sportscience/fullstory.sps?iNewsID=35025&itype=3919&iCategoryID=

http://cis.squirming.net/category/tennis/185

http://www.tennis.com/yourgame/fitness/fitness.aspx?id=35298

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