{"id":61,"date":"2004-08-31T01:12:28","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T09:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/?p=61"},"modified":"2004-08-31T01:12:28","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T09:12:28","slug":"faith-versus-stubborness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/faith-versus-stubborness\/","title":{"rendered":"faith versus stubborness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I lost all three sets but I didn&#8217;t play badly. My attitude at this point is to have faith that if I continue my current practice and competition regime, I will improve and win more often. But what is the difference between faith and stubborness? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5239122\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Woods<\/a> is stubborn. Since he broke with Butch Harmon, his swing has been inconsistent and he has a ten game losing streak in PGA major championships. At my level of play, level E after all, I can expect that it will take time to develop consistent strokes and strong mental skills. It&#8217;s possible that I should run off and find a coach but I am holding firm for the moment. Besides, I doubt that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradgilberttennis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Gilbert<\/a> is available.<\/p>\n<p><em>Practice and Competition Report<\/em>: played three sets with M.: 3-6, 3-6, 3-6, practiced my serve for two bags of practice balls<br \/>\n<em>Solutions Analysis<\/em>:<br \/>\n1. Looking for a solution to the problem of getting passed and lobbed at the net. Possible solution: hit approach shot deeper and to the corners (or grow five inches).<br \/>\n2. I have lost a bit of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisdiary.com\/2004\/03\/tennis-elbow#twist\">trunk twist<\/a>, which might explain my sore elbow.<br \/>\n3. I moved farther back on the baseline so that I had space to step into my shots.<br \/>\n<em>Success Analysis<\/em>: I practiced my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisdiary.com\/2004\/03\/strokes#serve\">serve<\/a> after the match and because I was serving well, I kept on practicing it for a long time.<br \/>\n<em>Injury report<\/em>: my thumb still hurts, I am feeling pain in my elbow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lost all three sets but I didn&#8217;t play badly. My attitude at this point is to have faith that if I continue my current practice and competition regime, I will improve and win more often. But what is the difference between faith and stubborness? Tiger Woods is stubborn. Since he broke with Butch Harmon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,50,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-mechanics","category-injuries","category-tennis-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}