Serveitup Tennis Magazine #8

Issue 8 October 2016 

Young and 

Unafraid 

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First Serve 

8 

Things You Didn’t Know. 

10 

16 

Eyes On The Ball. 

Play Hard Study Harder. 

in this issue 

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28 

32 

Features 

Nobody Wins The Match 

In The First Set. 

Cover Story...Who Is? 

Tariq Simons. 

Rest After Long Matches. 

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Specialty Shots 

Serve Everyday. 

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Missing Ball. 

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Photo Of The Month. 


Being nervous is actually a good 

thing. Every tennis player should 

thing 

get nervous. Getting nervous is 

actually a sign that you really 

want it... bad. It is what is called 

the ‘IT‘ factor. 

This is what causes everyone 

from the youngest person, to the 

oldest person, to compete. Everyone 

wants to be the best, to 

get the best. And when you don’t 

get it, peer pressure causes you 

to work harder to get ‘IT’. 

A player who doesn’t want it 

wouldn’t care, and won’t give 

any effort. Remember the more 

nerves you have, actually shows 

how badly you really want to win. 

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Eyes On T 

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How many times have you heard it said “Keep 

your eyes on the ball“. Let’s add something more 

to that... “until you’re finished hitting it”. What 

that does, is it keeps your head from moving, so 

you can start and finish the shot properly. 

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Statistics show that in a tennis 

match, you only hit around 15% 

ners 

of winners. That means 85% of 

the points are dictated by errors. 

It is therefore totally in your 

hands, to change the outcome 

of the matches you are presently 

losing, by simply focusing on 

reducing your error output. 

Go for your shots when you have 

them. But no matter how much 

more winners you go for, it will 

always add up to around 15%. 

But if you reduce your errors to 

let’s say 5 or 10% less, you’d be 

beating players you are currently 

losing to, and winning much 

more matches. 


Features 

Are you Drinking 

Properly? 

You’ve got to constantly monitor 

your fluid intake when you play, 

so you can stay hydrated. Never 

wait until you get thirsty before 

you decide to drink some fluids. 

Just getting thirsty, means your 

body is dehydrated and is calling 

for you to relieve the thirst. 

Water is always very good to 

drink, but when you sweat on 

the court, you lose sodium from 

your body, so it’s very important 

that you replace the sodium you 

lost. Get electrolytes and sports 

drinks that contain sodium so 

you can always hydrate propely. 

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Study Hard 

Play 

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Hard 

You will have a life after your tennis career is over, and you will 

need to have some basic life skills... like buying a car, a house, 

handling your wealth and balancing your checkbook. This 

knowledge is critical. Everyone is not going to make a living 

as a professional tennis player, so continue your education, if 

college calls. For some of you, after college, with your degree, 

you can still become a professional tennis player. 

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It’s unhealthy for junior tennis 

players to always be on the court 

thing 

practicing, without taking any 

time off, away from the court. 

Taking time off, away from the 

courts, is just like going to sleep 

at night. After a good night’s 

rest, you wake up refreshed, and 

ready to face everything. The 

same is true for your tennis. 

Just taking a day or a weekend 

off, going to the mall or doing 

something fun, allows junior tennis 

players to relax, and be able 

to upgrade their focus. 

Without taking time away from 

the courts, players tend to ‘burn 

out‘, at a very early age. 

Tim 

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Nobody 

Wins The Matc 

In The 

First Set 

A tennis match is two out of three sets. 

So prepare yourself to battle until the 

match is over. 

Everyone comes out and can play their 

best when they are fresh. Some players 

can get hot and go on a roll for a 

few games. So what if you lose the 

first set, the match isn’t over. There are 

still two more sets to fight through. 

Are you willing to do something about 

it? Are you putting up any 

or just throwing in the tow 

When players get tired, it 

know if they can truly pla 

to that place, if not, you’d 

how good you really are. 

them the match, fight to t 

cause ‘Nobody Wins The 

The First Set’. You may s 

self and end up winning t 

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Sleeping early Wo 

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Junior tennis players are high 

perfomance athletes. That instantly 

puts them in a elite class. 

As an athlete, there are certain 

disciplines that you must always 

observed. 

Getting to bed early is a discipline 

that every serious athlete 

and their coaches pay close attention 

to. You just don’t go to 

bed when you get tired, or after 

you’ve finished watching all your 

television shows. 

All athletes need that deep REM 

sleep that you get between the 

hours of 10:00 pm to 2:00 am. 

Sleeping between those hours is 

rks 

necessary for the body to function 

properly. 


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Put a pencil or your cell phone 

down. Now try to pick it up. No I 

thing 

didn’t say pick it up, (which you 

did), I said ‘try‘ to pick it up. 

As you noticed, there was no 

‘trying‘ you were either picking it 

up or not picking it up. There is 

no grey area. Even if the object 

is heavy and you can’t lift it, you 

are either lifting it, or not lifting it. 

So when it comes to tennis, and 

you make all the excuses for your 

attitude and poor effort, saying, 

“I was trying”. There is no trying 

you are either doing it, or not doing 

it. You are making excuses 

and not doing the things you can 

do. It’s your choice... just do it! 

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ere’s no Trying 


Who is 

Tar 

Cover Story

iq Simons 

Tariq Simons was born February 

27th, 2001 in Bermuda to a Bermudian 

father, Ras Mykkal Simons and a 

Jamaican mother, Nathalee Simons 

(nee Johnson). He attended Purvis 

Primary School in Warwick, Bermuda 

before he and his parents relocated 

to Jamaica in 2012 to give him a better 

opportunity to pursue his dream 

of being a tennis professional. 

Tariq’s potential to play tennis was 

discovered in Bermuda at a Simons 

family gathering. At age 7, he was 

trying his hand at table tennis when 

his father’s cousin, Brian Swan, noted 

that Tariq had really good forehand 

form and mentioned to his mother 

that “Tariq should try playing tennis”. 

Tariq’s mother called the first name 

she saw in the telephone book ‘under 

Tennis Instructors’ Howard Cross. 

Howard was the tennis pro at the Reefs 

Hotel in Southampton, Bermuda and 

arrangement was made for Tariq to 

start tennis lessons. He was immediately 

impressed with Tariq’s hand-eye 

coordination, motor skills, form and 

ability to absorb the instructions given 

in a short time. Regarded as probably 

the best development coach in 

Bermuda, Howard spent 12 months 

training Tariq before putting him in 

his first tournament, the 2009 Coral 

Beach Junior Tennis Tournament. 

Tariq lost 4-0, 4-0, but his form and 

passion had been noted by all. Tariq 

won his first tournament, 6-3, 6-3 over 

Scott Redmond in the Langton Junior 

Tennis Tournament on April 7th, 2011. 

By the time Tariq left Bermuda for Jamaica, 

he was ranked number two in 

the boys under 10 and 4th in the boys 

under 12. 

Tariq has spent the summer of 2010 

in Jamaica and participated for two 

weeks in the Russell Tennis Academy 

summer camp at the Rose Hall Hilton 

in Montego Bay. Tariq’s parents wanted 

him to develop under the Richard 

Russell Tennis Academy program, so 

they rented a home in Montego Bay in 

August 2012, just up the hill from the 

Rose Hall Hilton. Unfortunately, the 

Russell’s had relocated their Academy 

to Kington. Gary Gedallia was the 

new tennis pro at the Hilton and became 

Tariq’s new coach. 

In 2014, Tariq tennis training and 

development moved from the Hilton 

Rose Hall to Sea Garden Hotel 

on Gloucester Ave, Montego under 

Coach Maureen Rankine. 


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Rest 

After 

Long 

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Especially when it’s hot, the sun 

drains your energy quickly. So conserve 

your energy between matches, 

by finding some shady spot to get a 

rest... instead of running around being 

a social butterfly. 


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It Is Time To Stretch! 

One aspect of fitness that is usually overlooked 

is flexibility. Flexibility is usually defined 

as the ability to be bent without breaking. To 

relate this definition to tennis, it is the ability to 

play without becoming injured. So if you have 

good flexibility, you should be able to reach for 

every ball without hurting or straining yourself. 

So how do you improve your flexibility, so that 

you can play longer without injury? 

The answer is simple. You must stretch. 

Stretching is the lengthening of muscles and 

body tissue, in order to improve movement and 

function. You do this by putting tension on targeted 

muscle and tissue over a period of time. 

This is usually done at the end range of motion 

at the particular joint the muscle and tissue 

cross. For example, to stretch your hamstrings, 

you could position yourself by sitting on the floor 

with your legs straight and back against a wall. 

Then to initiate the stretch, you would lean forward 

trying to touch your toes. If you try this 

stretch, you will feel a pull in the back of your 

thighs. As you begin to stretch the muscle, the 

pulling sensation might be intense. Don’t worry. 

Just go as far as you can tolerate. Then, with 

time and repetition, you will feel less pulling and 

have improved motion. You can repeat this process 

with every joint in your body. 

So how often and for how long do you 

need to stretch to see improvements in flexibility? 

This answer actually varies somewhat 

from person to person. However, as a general 

rule, you must stretch a particular muscle for 

at least 30 seconds per day for 3-7 days out of 

the week. Again this differs on individual factors 

such as your current flexibility and activity level 

throughout the day. For example, if you sit most 

of the day, you are more susceptible to developing 

tightness in your hamstrings. To prevent 

this from occurring, you will have to stretch your 

hamstrings more often than other people who 

are more physically active throughout the day. 

So make sure to adjust your stretching routine 

depending on where your greatest flexibility restrictions 

are to help prevent injury to you more 

vulnerable muscles. 

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Find 

The Missing Ball 

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Do you think you know where the 

missing ball is in this photo? 

Results in the next issue. 


Missing Ball Results 

from last Issue. 

We had no winners from last contest. 

This was the spot




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