{"id":66,"date":"2004-09-11T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-12T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/?p=66"},"modified":"2004-09-11T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-12T00:59:00","slug":"nightwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/nightwork\/","title":{"rendered":"nightwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend who goes into people&#8217;s dreams at night (only if he&#8217;s invited) and helps them out with their problems. That is his way of serving others. I have enough problems of my own and would likely turn your dream into a nightmare but I do have my own version of nightwork. After I close my eyes and before I go to sleep, I mentally rehearse aspects of my tennis game that need work.<\/p>\n<p>Each week I identify 3-4 things that need improvement and I work on these throughout the week. Currently I am working on three things: 1. swinging the racket with a neutral wrist position &#8211; i.e. don&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisdiary.com\/2004\/03\/tennis-elbow#dropracket\">drop the racket head<\/a> as I hit the ball and end up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisdiary.com\/2004\/03\/tennis-elbow\">tennis elbow<\/a> again 2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisdiary.com\/2004\/03\/strokes#basicstrokemechanics\">stepping into the ball and following through<\/a> 3. coming to a stop and hitting my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisdiary.com\/2004\/03\/strokes#approach\">approach shot<\/a> before moving forward to the net. It happens a lot, I run into the net to hit an approach shot and all of a sudden the ball is about to hit me in the nose because I&#8217;ve overrun it.<\/p>\n<p>Whether I&#8217;m trying to make a current stroke more automatic or incorporating something new into my game, nightwork can be very helpful.<\/p>\n<p>What I want to know is, how does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerfederer.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Federer<\/a> win three Grand Slams in one year without a coach?<\/p>\n<p><em>Practice and Competiton Report<\/em>: played <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lataweb.com\" target=\"_blank\">league<\/a> tennis today, one set of doubles and one set of singles: 6-4, 4-6<br \/>\n<em>Solutions Analysis<\/em>: looking for a solution to rushing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisdiary.com\/2004\/03\/strokes#approach\">approach<\/a> shot.<br \/>\n<em>Success Analysis<\/em>:<br \/>\n1. I hit a lot of service winners by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisdiary.com\/2004\/03\/strokes#serve\">serving<\/a> to my opponent&#8217;s backhand.<br \/>\n2. I was down 5-0 but came back to win the next four games before losing 6-4. I was very nervous but I&#8217;m getting much better at keeping with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisdiary.com\/2004\/03\/competition-routine#mentalprogram\">routine<\/a> despite the nerves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend who goes into people&#8217;s dreams at night (only if he&#8217;s invited) and helps them out with their problems. That is his way of serving others. I have enough problems of my own and would likely turn your dream into a nightmare but I do have my own version of nightwork. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,68,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-mechanics","category-mental-skills","category-tennis-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}