This is our “Simon” of the day as part of the release of his book: “This sport that makes Crazy”. This series will end this Sunday. It will then be time to read the entire book.
Today we are discussing the subject of performance analysis and specifically what people think or want to see: “Federer (but I could also take the example of a Nick Kyrgios or a Jo-Wilfried Tsonga), people love it because it’s easy to understand. When Jo serves a first at 220 km / h and behind it sends a firecracker in forehand, it’s good, everyone has understood what he has done, no need to have played twenty years of tennis to grasp the thing. And that’s also the way of thinking of our leaders, guys want simple things. Yet what Jo does by attacking a lot, if you ask another player to attack the same ball in the same way, he will send it in the tarpaulins eight times out of ten. Whereas in my case, when I beat Federer because he made forty unforced errors, they say he played badly. I don’t mind, but would he have made those forty unforced errors if I hadn’t pushed him? Do you really believe that? “
Posted on Saturday, October 31, 2020 at 08:40
