Our guest writer this month is Debashree Marathe. Debashree is a Sports and Exercise psychologist, she has been working with some kids in the deccan Gymkhana Tennis coaching scheme.
"With great players from India advancing ahead in ITF and grad-slams, proves that these players are not just physically fit and have good technique, but also that these players have a tough mind; a pre-requisite for any champion. Mind plays an important role in winning and in losing. A confident mind, with good level of motivation and determination balances out the negativities and self-doubts and even over-powers them to actually help a player achieve what he/ she wants.
Factors like confidence, focus, body-language, attitude that player hold before and after the game, nervousness, pressures, worry, fear of failure and fear of success affect the way anyone plays. For example, a player with great technique and a good posture might not be a winner because he/ she loses focus at the crucial time of the play; gets angry upon a miss or bad calls; is not confident enough to play in front of people or when not in lead etc. So even if they have the basics to be a good player, they lack in the pre-requisites that is the having a strong mind to take over the game.
As a sports psychologist, I have worked with a lot of tennis players and some of them include Rutuja Bhosale, Sahil Deshmukh, Prarthana Tombre, Ankita Raina, Siddhanth Bhanthia and many more. All these players are very good in what they do. They have earned a level of play with their own effort, good dedication and rigorous bouts of practice day in and day out. As a therapist, the most important factor that I had to work on was their amount of focus that they had during a match and their confidence to play in face of adversities (e.g., losing a lead, managing pressure at the crucial time of the match, ) Of course, learning to focus, trust your won body (confidence) to play flawlessly wasn’t a miracle that happened to them over night; it was a process that had a routine that they had to follow like their physical training session, giving a fixed amount of time for mental coaching to increase their concentration level, confidence level and most importantly reduce their fear of failure in a big match situation. Simple techniques used by them has helped them to maintain consistency in their game, reduce performance blocks, and reduce self-doubts and manage pressure from themselves, their parents, their coaches and the venue that they are playing at. Managing their own mind in the game has helped them and is helping them concur their game and take it to a new level all together."
Debashree Marathe
C. 9823334131
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Friday, December 16, 2011
Qualifying for NECC ITF
Ksenia gets top billing in Qualifying draw
Four Indians seeded; Sharmada Balu highest ranked Indian
Pune, December 16: Russia’s Ksenia Kirillova has been top seeded in the Qualifying draw of the 11th NECC-ITF $25,000 Women’s tennis tournament wherein all the seeds get first round bye for the event that begins at the Deccan Gymkhana courts on Saturday.
Kirillova meets India’s Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy in the second round; while the second seded Hua-Chen Lee faces 12th seed Shu-Ying Hsieh after the draw was made on Friday evening.
Four Indians have been seeded in the qualifying with Sharmada Balu being placed at No 4, the best seeded Indian, while Kyra Shroff is seventh, Rushmi Chakravarthi eighth and Ankita Raina tenth. Both Kyra and Rushmi had a forgettable outing in the ongoing $10,000 ITF tennis at Balewadi.
Sharmada has a tough second round match against Ireland’s Julia Moriarty on the morrow, while Kyra waits for the winner of first round match between Prarthana Prathap and Ho-Ching Wu of Hong Kong.
Rushmi too will have to wait as she is drawn to play the winner of Sheethal Gautham and Preethi Srinivasan in the bottom half of the draw. Eight players will make it to the main draw after playing three rounds in a draw of 48.
Following the withdrawal of the top seed Alexandra Panova of Russia, Varatchaya Wongteanchai of Thailand would get the top billing in the main draw, which begins on Monday. It would have been Panova’s third appearance in Pune had she not pulled out. Upcoming teenager Sachie Ishizu from Japan will now head the bottom half of the draw being the No 2 seed.
Meanwhile, two city players Rutuja Bhosale, and Aishvarya Srivastava are among the four players granted wild cards for the main draw. The other two are Prerna Bhambri, Rishika Sunkara.
SEEDS
1-Ksenia Kirillova (Rus); 2-Hua-Chen Lee (Tpe); 3-Jia Xiang Lu (Chn); 4-Sharmada Balu (Ind); 5-Ju-Eun Kim (Kor); 6-Hae-Sung Kim (Kor); 7-Kyra Shroff (Ind); 8-Rushmi Chakravarthi (Ind); 9-Julia Parasyuk (Rus); 10-Ankita Raina (Ind); 11- Noel Scott (USA); 12-Shu-Ying Hsieh (Tpe); 13-Julia Moriarty (Irl); 14-Evgeniya Svintsova (Rus); 15-Napatsakorn Sankaew (Tha); 16-Anamika Bhargava (USA).
Four Indians seeded; Sharmada Balu highest ranked Indian
Pune, December 16: Russia’s Ksenia Kirillova has been top seeded in the Qualifying draw of the 11th NECC-ITF $25,000 Women’s tennis tournament wherein all the seeds get first round bye for the event that begins at the Deccan Gymkhana courts on Saturday.
Kirillova meets India’s Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy in the second round; while the second seded Hua-Chen Lee faces 12th seed Shu-Ying Hsieh after the draw was made on Friday evening.
Four Indians have been seeded in the qualifying with Sharmada Balu being placed at No 4, the best seeded Indian, while Kyra Shroff is seventh, Rushmi Chakravarthi eighth and Ankita Raina tenth. Both Kyra and Rushmi had a forgettable outing in the ongoing $10,000 ITF tennis at Balewadi.
Sharmada has a tough second round match against Ireland’s Julia Moriarty on the morrow, while Kyra waits for the winner of first round match between Prarthana Prathap and Ho-Ching Wu of Hong Kong.
Rushmi too will have to wait as she is drawn to play the winner of Sheethal Gautham and Preethi Srinivasan in the bottom half of the draw. Eight players will make it to the main draw after playing three rounds in a draw of 48.
Following the withdrawal of the top seed Alexandra Panova of Russia, Varatchaya Wongteanchai of Thailand would get the top billing in the main draw, which begins on Monday. It would have been Panova’s third appearance in Pune had she not pulled out. Upcoming teenager Sachie Ishizu from Japan will now head the bottom half of the draw being the No 2 seed.
Meanwhile, two city players Rutuja Bhosale, and Aishvarya Srivastava are among the four players granted wild cards for the main draw. The other two are Prerna Bhambri, Rishika Sunkara.
SEEDS
1-Ksenia Kirillova (Rus); 2-Hua-Chen Lee (Tpe); 3-Jia Xiang Lu (Chn); 4-Sharmada Balu (Ind); 5-Ju-Eun Kim (Kor); 6-Hae-Sung Kim (Kor); 7-Kyra Shroff (Ind); 8-Rushmi Chakravarthi (Ind); 9-Julia Parasyuk (Rus); 10-Ankita Raina (Ind); 11- Noel Scott (USA); 12-Shu-Ying Hsieh (Tpe); 13-Julia Moriarty (Irl); 14-Evgeniya Svintsova (Rus); 15-Napatsakorn Sankaew (Tha); 16-Anamika Bhargava (USA).
Qualifying for NECC ITF
Ksenia gets top billing in Qualifying draw
Four Indians seeded; Sharmada Balu highest ranked Indian
Pune, December 16: Russia’s Ksenia Kirillova has been top seeded in the Qualifying draw of the 11th NECC-ITF $25,000 Women’s tennis tournament wherein all the seeds get first round bye for the event that begins at the Deccan Gymkhana courts on Saturday.
Kirillova meets India’s Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy in the second round; while the second seded Hua-Chen Lee faces 12th seed Shu-Ying Hsieh after the draw was made on Friday evening.
Four Indians have been seeded in the qualifying with Sharmada Balu being placed at No 4, the best seeded Indian, while Kyra Shroff is seventh, Rushmi Chakravarthi eighth and Ankita Raina tenth. Both Kyra and Rushmi had a forgettable outing in the ongoing $10,000 ITF tennis at Balewadi.
Sharmada has a tough second round match against Ireland’s Julia Moriarty on the morrow, while Kyra waits for the winner of first round match between Prarthana Prathap and Ho-Ching Wu of Hong Kong.
Rushmi too will have to wait as she is drawn to play the winner of Sheethal Gautham and Preethi Srinivasan in the bottom half of the draw. Eight players will make it to the main draw after playing three rounds in a draw of 48.
Following the withdrawal of the top seed Alexandra Panova of Russia, Varatchaya Wongteanchai of Thailand would get the top billing in the main draw, which begins on Monday. It would have been Panova’s third appearance in Pune had she not pulled out. Upcoming teenager Sachie Ishizu from Japan will now head the bottom half of the draw being the No 2 seed.
Meanwhile, two city players Rutuja Bhosale, and Aishvarya Srivastava are among the four players granted wild cards for the main draw. The other two are Prerna Bhambri, Rishika Sunkara.
SEEDS
1-Ksenia Kirillova (Rus); 2-Hua-Chen Lee (Tpe); 3-Jia Xiang Lu (Chn); 4-Sharmada Balu (Ind); 5-Ju-Eun Kim (Kor); 6-Hae-Sung Kim (Kor); 7-Kyra Shroff (Ind); 8-Rushmi Chakravarthi (Ind); 9-Julia Parasyuk (Rus); 10-Ankita Raina (Ind); 11- Noel Scott (USA); 12-Shu-Ying Hsieh (Tpe); 13-Julia Moriarty (Irl); 14-Evgeniya Svintsova (Rus); 15-Napatsakorn Sankaew (Tha); 16-Anamika Bhargava (USA).
Four Indians seeded; Sharmada Balu highest ranked Indian
Pune, December 16: Russia’s Ksenia Kirillova has been top seeded in the Qualifying draw of the 11th NECC-ITF $25,000 Women’s tennis tournament wherein all the seeds get first round bye for the event that begins at the Deccan Gymkhana courts on Saturday.
Kirillova meets India’s Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy in the second round; while the second seded Hua-Chen Lee faces 12th seed Shu-Ying Hsieh after the draw was made on Friday evening.
Four Indians have been seeded in the qualifying with Sharmada Balu being placed at No 4, the best seeded Indian, while Kyra Shroff is seventh, Rushmi Chakravarthi eighth and Ankita Raina tenth. Both Kyra and Rushmi had a forgettable outing in the ongoing $10,000 ITF tennis at Balewadi.
Sharmada has a tough second round match against Ireland’s Julia Moriarty on the morrow, while Kyra waits for the winner of first round match between Prarthana Prathap and Ho-Ching Wu of Hong Kong.
Rushmi too will have to wait as she is drawn to play the winner of Sheethal Gautham and Preethi Srinivasan in the bottom half of the draw. Eight players will make it to the main draw after playing three rounds in a draw of 48.
Following the withdrawal of the top seed Alexandra Panova of Russia, Varatchaya Wongteanchai of Thailand would get the top billing in the main draw, which begins on Monday. It would have been Panova’s third appearance in Pune had she not pulled out. Upcoming teenager Sachie Ishizu from Japan will now head the bottom half of the draw being the No 2 seed.
Meanwhile, two city players Rutuja Bhosale, and Aishvarya Srivastava are among the four players granted wild cards for the main draw. The other two are Prerna Bhambri, Rishika Sunkara.
SEEDS
1-Ksenia Kirillova (Rus); 2-Hua-Chen Lee (Tpe); 3-Jia Xiang Lu (Chn); 4-Sharmada Balu (Ind); 5-Ju-Eun Kim (Kor); 6-Hae-Sung Kim (Kor); 7-Kyra Shroff (Ind); 8-Rushmi Chakravarthi (Ind); 9-Julia Parasyuk (Rus); 10-Ankita Raina (Ind); 11- Noel Scott (USA); 12-Shu-Ying Hsieh (Tpe); 13-Julia Moriarty (Irl); 14-Evgeniya Svintsova (Rus); 15-Napatsakorn Sankaew (Tha); 16-Anamika Bhargava (USA).
Monday, December 5, 2011
Boys and Girls Under 12 Singles, December 4, 2011
Brief results for last Sunday:
Girls Under 12:
Shambhavi Nadkarni d. Ila Dadhe: 6-0
Mansi Narde d. Shreeja Kapshikar: 6-1
Final:
Shambhavi Nadkarni d. Mansi Narde: 6-0
Boys Under 12:
Kyle Cummings d. Shreyas Lanke: 6-0
Manas Thukral d. Varun Phatak: 6-3
Kyle Cummings d. Geet Singhi: 6-0
Manas Thukral d. Shreyas Lanke: 6-0
Final:
Kyle Cummings d. Manas Thukral: 6-0
NECC Women's ITF, a USD 25,000 tournament will be held at Deccan Gymkhana from the 17th to 24th of December. Entry is free. We request the parents to get their kids to watch the matches. It will be a good learning experience for them. The last four days have evening and night matches.
Follow on facebook : Deccan Womens ITF
Girls Under 12:
Shambhavi Nadkarni d. Ila Dadhe: 6-0
Mansi Narde d. Shreeja Kapshikar: 6-1
Final:
Shambhavi Nadkarni d. Mansi Narde: 6-0
Boys Under 12:
Kyle Cummings d. Shreyas Lanke: 6-0
Manas Thukral d. Varun Phatak: 6-3
Kyle Cummings d. Geet Singhi: 6-0
Manas Thukral d. Shreyas Lanke: 6-0
Final:
Kyle Cummings d. Manas Thukral: 6-0
NECC Women's ITF, a USD 25,000 tournament will be held at Deccan Gymkhana from the 17th to 24th of December. Entry is free. We request the parents to get their kids to watch the matches. It will be a good learning experience for them. The last four days have evening and night matches.
Follow on facebook : Deccan Womens ITF
Boys Under 10, Sunday, 27 November 2011
Results from the boys Under 10:
Manas Thukral d. Pratham Bhujbal: 7-5
Dev d. Siddarth: 6-1
Parth Sumbre d. Rahul Dikshit: 6-2
Omkar Agnihotri d. Rohan Raheja: 6-0
Omkar Agnihotri d. Naad dantale: 6-1
Varun Pathak d. Parth Sumbre: 6-3
Dev Dharmadhikari d. Yash Jagtap: 6-1
Manas thukral d. dev Dharmadhikari: 6-4
Varun Pathak d. Parth Sumbre: 6-3
Varun Phatak d. Omkar Agnihotri: 7-5
Final:
Manas Thukral d. Varun Phatak: 6-2
Manas Thukral d. Pratham Bhujbal: 7-5
Dev d. Siddarth: 6-1
Parth Sumbre d. Rahul Dikshit: 6-2
Omkar Agnihotri d. Rohan Raheja: 6-0
Omkar Agnihotri d. Naad dantale: 6-1
Varun Pathak d. Parth Sumbre: 6-3
Dev Dharmadhikari d. Yash Jagtap: 6-1
Manas thukral d. dev Dharmadhikari: 6-4
Varun Pathak d. Parth Sumbre: 6-3
Varun Phatak d. Omkar Agnihotri: 7-5
Final:
Manas Thukral d. Varun Phatak: 6-2
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Sunday Tennis League - November 20, 2011
Brief results from the matches
Girls Under 14:
Anahita Pande d. Rutika Agarwal: 6-0
Nehal Patankar d. Samruddhi Ghumare: 7-6
Radhika Joshi d. Vaidehi Katkar: 6-1
Janhavee Walavadkar d. Kasturi Lende: 6-4
Semi finals:
Anahita Pande d. Samruddhi Ghumare : 6-1
Radhika Joshi d. Janhavee Walavadkar: 6-2
Final:
Radhika Joshi d. Anahita Pande: 7-6 (7-4)
Boys:
Christian Cummings d. Shubhankar Bhajekar: 6-2
Yavin Solomon d. Yeshwant Gutta: 6-3
Anish Patankar d. Aniruddha Deshpande: 6-1
Apporva Ringangoankar d. Tanishq Deshpande: 6-0
Atharva Sharma d. Kyle Cummings: 6-1
Sammit Ranade w/o Sharan Rajani
Aditya Iyer w/o Indraneel Patil
Christian Cummings d. Yavin Solomon: 7-6 (7-2)
Apporv Ringangaonkar d. Anish Patankar: 6-4
Atharva Sharma d. Sammit Ranade: 6-1
Semi Finals:
Aditya Iyer d. Atharva Sharma: 6-3
Christian Cummings d. Apporv Ringangaonkar: 6-1
Final:
Aditya Iyer d. Christian Cummings: 7-6
Boys and Girls Under 10 will be held on November 27
Girls Under 14:
Anahita Pande d. Rutika Agarwal: 6-0
Nehal Patankar d. Samruddhi Ghumare: 7-6
Radhika Joshi d. Vaidehi Katkar: 6-1
Janhavee Walavadkar d. Kasturi Lende: 6-4
Semi finals:
Anahita Pande d. Samruddhi Ghumare : 6-1
Radhika Joshi d. Janhavee Walavadkar: 6-2
Final:
Radhika Joshi d. Anahita Pande: 7-6 (7-4)
Boys:
Christian Cummings d. Shubhankar Bhajekar: 6-2
Yavin Solomon d. Yeshwant Gutta: 6-3
Anish Patankar d. Aniruddha Deshpande: 6-1
Apporva Ringangoankar d. Tanishq Deshpande: 6-0
Atharva Sharma d. Kyle Cummings: 6-1
Sammit Ranade w/o Sharan Rajani
Aditya Iyer w/o Indraneel Patil
Christian Cummings d. Yavin Solomon: 7-6 (7-2)
Apporv Ringangaonkar d. Anish Patankar: 6-4
Atharva Sharma d. Sammit Ranade: 6-1
Semi Finals:
Aditya Iyer d. Atharva Sharma: 6-3
Christian Cummings d. Apporv Ringangaonkar: 6-1
Final:
Aditya Iyer d. Christian Cummings: 7-6
Boys and Girls Under 10 will be held on November 27
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Round Robin Super Series
Following players have been selected for the round robin super series in the under 14 age groups
Boys Under 14:
Aditya Iyer
Approv Ringangaonkar
Christian Cummings
Atharva Sharma
Girls Under 14:
Anahita Pande
Radhika Joshi
Sachi Kulkarni
Boys Under 14:
Aditya Iyer
Approv Ringangaonkar
Christian Cummings
Atharva Sharma
Girls Under 14:
Anahita Pande
Radhika Joshi
Sachi Kulkarni
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