Week of November 16th - 22nd, 2020 We are thankful that we are able to continue with our high performance training. The coaches now have more availability for private lessons than they typically would and court availability should not be an issue since our high performance training is now the only activity taking place at the club. This is a great opportunity for the kids to get in some extra training. The players and coaches continue to demonstrate a high level of respect and care for one another through following the club's Covid protocols and we are very proud of the quality and safe training environment that we have been able to provide this fall. We will be sending an additional update this Friday. Craig Mercer Tennis Director and Assistant General Manager, Toronto Tennis City

MINI TENNIS TEAM Head Coach John Cairns john@acetennis.ca

This week in the little ace’s: we continued with volley work focusing on hammer grip impact point and split step. The warm up was volley oriented from pops in the air to “ready ready split” on the approach and return. And the competitive game continued to be the approach game. Lots of fun was had and some of the Ace’s began to move forward and volley during open play. It helped that they were motivated by the potential of 2 points for winning with a volley.

FUTURES / CHAMPIONS TEAMS Head Coach Adam Dykes adam@acetennis.ca

This week is going well. We have been working on looking to use your strength(Forehand) in a rally when you have the opportunity and working on specific foot work in order to properly move around the backhand. The kids have been doing great and in a drill they are showing a terrific understanding of when to take their strength and use their forehand. However during point play this skill still needs more time to develop. We are constantly encouraging proper repetition during point play and praising the correct decision making and technique rather than the outcome of the point. Our goal is with this type of feedback we will continue to see a growth mindset with our players.

PROVINCIAL / NATIONAL U12 PROVINCIAL INTERNATIONAL TEAMS Head Coach Sam Jonas sam@acetennis.ca

This week we started a new training block centering around using variation to throw off an opponent's timing/rhythm to create unforced errors and attacking opportunities. For this block our training is revolving around touch/feel/precision and slice. We emphasized drop shots and slices during our warm up and the players got lots of practice with their soft feel and hands. We also were emphasizing a low slice backhand to throw rhythm off and get players off balance. Finally we introduced the players to serving and volleying as a change of rhythm as well. Finally we recognize that the bread and butter of the majority of our athletes games will still be revolving around heavy top-spin ground strokes and a big forehand to put points away, so we still touch on these aspects of the players games with certain point and drilling scenarios.