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This Week in Tennis – 2/20/12

February 20, 2012 by agent

Things are starting to pick up in the Tennis world as the Men get ready for Indian Wells and the Sony Ericsson in March. Last week Nicolas Almagro won down in Brazil, Milos Raonic won in San Jose and our old friend Roger Federer won in Rotterdam over Juan Martin Del Potro. Roger is tough to beat indoors as we have mentioned before. Indoors is based on fast reactions and instincts, which of course Roger has plenty of.

Outdoors you have to grind it out and it favors the younger fitter players. Almagro won because he is one of the best clay court players around and that was the surface down there. Raonic is an up-and-comer who has slowly made it up to 35 in the world. He needs some seasoning but seems to have some talent. The guys from San Jose move on to Memphis this week, the South American Tour goes to Argentina and the guys in Europe move to Marseille.

For the Women it's worth noting that Victoria Azarenka moved to 17-0 on the year after crushing Sam Stosur yesterday in Qatar. The reason this is significant is because now Azarenka is crushing people and just won a tourney that a year ago she was in tears in and thought she was going to quit tennis.

Tennis is a very mental sport and you need to clear all the “shit” out of your brain first and then just let your talent flow. It is hard because when you first pick up a racket your mind is clean but you don't have your body programmed with the physical tools for success. Stage 2 is you become a robot or a machine after years of using muscle memory to hit the ball. Stage 3 is breaking out of the robotic way of hitting and going back to the start where your brain is clean and as Tim Galloway said in his book, Inner Tennis “Just let it happen.” Azarenka is through her “Blue period” and now she is playing with freedom and will be tough to beat.

Call up America’s Bookie and bet Jarkko Nieminem -280 to slice and dice to a win over Roger-Vasselin in France and look for Donald Young +200 to pull off a slight upset over Dimitrov in Memphis.

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