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I’m writing this blog as the year 2020 has come to a close. Tired, physically and mentally, stressed and worn out. But as a tennis coach that’s almost the norm these...
By Val Febbo with Marc Sophoulis
Sport is all about competitiveness, the essence of it is winning and losing, so athletes must have that that drive to succeed in order to prolong their careers.
It...
By Val Febbo with Marc Sophoulis
If you look at life like a novel or movie, it has its chapters, sequences and stanzas along with scenes of jubilation and complications. There are always goals, and...
By Val Febbo with Marc Sophoulis
With the tennis fraternity in the complete unknown about when the season will actually begin, let alone the Australian Open, how should players and coaches actually...
By Callum Metcher
When it comes to an athlete’s recovery there is nothing more important than sleep. Sleep makes up around one-third of an athlete’s schedule so if you’re looking...
By Val Febbo with Marc Sophoulis
The 2020 French Open was fairly bizarre in many ways, for starters players wore leggings and long sleeves due to freezing weather, it was in September/October and...
By Joel Fruci with Marc Sophoulis
Day one of the French Open main draw has come and gone, but that’s all the time it took for the tournament’s unique conditions and fresh balls to become...
By Val Febbo with Marc Sophoulis
It happens often in tennis, player A beats player B one week, and then a week later they have to do battle once more, and sure enough a lot of the time the result...
By Marc Sophoulis
So this week's question is "has my vision, my motivation changed in my coaching career and my coaching journey?"
Absolutely. You know, there's no doubt when I first started...
Marc Sophoulis
Thanks for joining us once again here on Crunching the Numbers. You have Marc Sophoulis and Shane Liyanage from Data Driven Sports Analytics. Shane, thank you once again for joining...
By Marc Sophoulis
So, you have made the decision to become a career coach working in ‘High Performance’ sport?
The definition of 'High Performance' is usually referred to as the level of...
Marc Sophoulis
Welcome to another episode of Crunching the Numbers with Marc Sophoulis and Shane Liyanage from Data Driven Sports Analytics. Shane, thank you so much for joining us...