Training Log Archive: Liam Dufty

Parsa came and tried out the Reabold lessons, although because of the wet courts it wasn't the best day for it. We mostly did half-court hitting and the lesson got cut short because of rain.

Event: Bush 3 Umuna (Long Distance OY)
 

H2 at Umuna. Mostly I went well, with the exception of a 4 minute mistake at number 3 because I went too high and ended up at the wrong line of rocks and a 3 minute mistake at number 15 because I found a small gully and thought it was the watercourse that led to my control, so I followed it in and went through earlier than I should've. I could see Craig ahead of me on the finish sprint, so I ran really hard trying to catch him. I did 3:39/km for the 500m finish leg and I was 25 seconds faster than the next best on my course.

H2 - Splits

Club champs match against Liam McDowell. I started off well playing aggressively and making my shots. I won the first set 6-2. By the second set the balls were pretty worn down, which favours his defensive style and flat groundstrokes. I was struggling with the wind and moved pretty poorly. I lost the second set 0-6. In the match tiebreak I decided that I just needed to stick with him and put pressure on him by making him play longer rallies and forcing him to get tight and make errors. At the first change of ends it was 3-3. The next it was 5-7 for him, but I came back and won in 10-8. I won 6-2 0-6 10-8. At 9-8 for me, match point Liam slightly mishit a cross-court forehand and pulled it just wide. I called it out but he wasn't happy with the call and stormed off angrily after we shook hands.

Club champs match against Matthew Thompson. I won 6-0 6-0 and we joined in with the lesson again when we were done.

Private lesson hitting with Scott. Doing drills working on transitioning to the net and finishing points.

Private lesson working on transitioning to the net and finishing points.

Club champs match against Cameron. I played well today and I was generally in control of the rallies. I still wasn't great at transitioning to the net though and I was thinking that I should ask Matt if we could do more work on it in my next private lesson but after the match Matt was talking to me and he said that from the bits he saw he thought I needed to work on it before I said it myself. I won 6-2 6-3 and I came back from 0-3 in the second set.