Rajeev Ram

jaccol55 · Post autor: **jaccol55** » 23 lip 2011, 7:43

Rajeev Ram

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Państwo: Stany Zjednoczone
Miejsce zamieszkania: Carmel
Data i miejsce urodzenia: 18 marca 1984, Denver
Wzrost: 193 cm
Masa ciała: 81 kg
Gra praworęczna
Status profesjonalny: 2004

asiek · Post autor: **asiek** » 23 lip 2011, 7:44

Syn hinduskich emigrantów Raghava i Shumy. Profesjonalną karierę rozpoczął na Uniwersytecie w Iolions. Zwycięzca jednego turnieju singlowego(Newport 2009) i dwóch deblowych(Newport w parze z Kerrem i Chennai z Butoracem). Ulubionym zawodnikiem Rama jest Boris Becker. W wieku 13 lat nosił buty o rozmiarze 47.

Zachwycił mnie wczoraj swoją miękką grą. Brakuje takich graczy w tourze, tak więc życzę mu dalszych sukcesów, wspinania się w rankingu i byśmy mogli go częściej oglądać.

Post autor: **Art** » 23 lip 2011, 7:44

#1) Newport 2009

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R32 Falla 6-4,7-5
R16 Groth 6-4,6-2
Q Levine 5-7,6-2,7-6(3)
S Rochus 6-3, 6-4
W Querrey 6-7(3),7-5,6-3

Shinoda · Post autor: **Shinoda** » 23 lip 2011, 7:44

Sezon 2009 w liczbach

Ranking: 79
Tytuły: 1 (Newport)
Finały: 0
Bilans spotkań: 8-6
Zarobki: $301,797

AO -
RG -
WM - 1 Runda
US - 1 Runda

jaccol55 · Post autor: **jaccol55** » 23 lip 2011, 7:45

Sezon 2010 w liczbach

Ranking: 185
Tytuły: 0
Finały: 0
Bilans spotkań: 6-18
Zarobki: $271,507

Blue · Post autor: **Blue** » 08 gru 2011, 18:25

2011 w liczbach

Ranking: 149
Bilanse meczów: 2-3
Tytuły: 0
Finały: 0
Zarobki: $193,260

Sempere · Post autor: **Sempere** » 24 mar 2012, 12:47

Zwycięstwa w challengerach (4):

2008 Winnetka
2009 Akwizgran
2011 Eckental, Ortisei

Jacuszyn · Post autor: **Jacuszyn** » 17 lip 2012, 21:16

16.11.2009

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 78

Post autor: **DUN I LOVE** » 17 lip 2012, 22:24

Rajeev przypomniał sobie piękne wspomnienia z Newport, dochodząc w tym roku do półfinału turnieju singlowego. Łabędzki śpiew według mnie.

Jacuszyn · Post autor: **Jacuszyn** » 17 lip 2012, 22:27

Dla mnie Rajeev zawsze będzie tym, który zamknął drzwi Fabryckowi do wygrania turnieju ATP w jego ostatnim sezonie na kortach. Z niczym innym mi się bardziej nie kojarzy.

robpal · Post autor: **robpal** » 27 lip 2012, 0:29

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B6uprio ... ature=plcp[/youtube]

Samurray · Post autor: **Samurray** » 31 sie 2012, 13:19

The Sport That Forgot About Scouting

When Ernests Gulbis meets Steve Johnson on Court 13 this morning at the U.S. Open, he will not have a plan. He won't care that Johnson, the two-time NCAA singles champion at Southern California, is quick and agile and hits inside-out forehands at all costs. Or that he tends to hit too many slice backhands when pressured. Or that his forehand can become erratic in long rallies in the center of the court.

Instead, Gulbis will serve hard and bludgeon every ball he possibly can. He doesn't want to think about anything else. "I don't really care because if I play good I can beat anybody, if I play bad I can lose to anybody," he said. "I'm not going to break my balls and go watch his match and watch his videos, I'm not going to do that."

Pro tennis players tend to be more like Gulbis than, say, Peyton Manning, who is known for studying hours of film to learn how to better dissect NFL defenses.

Most tennis players and coaches scout opponents, but usually not beyond basics like "hit it to his backhand," "keep the ball up high on her," and "make him run." When asked about their tactics, tennis pros often say they worry about their own games, not what their opponents do.

To wit: Before she played Sabine Lisicki at Wimbledon this year, Sloane Stephens was asked how she would handle Lisicki's monster serve. "Does she serve that big?" Stephens asked. Yes, she does.

Craig O'Shannessy, a coach for the last 17 years, wants tennis players to be more like their counterparts in other sports. The problem: Not many of them are listening.

"Scouting, it's the worst—absolutely the worst—part of tennis," he said.

O'Shannessy consults for college teams and coaches juniors and two pros, Melinda Czink and Rajeev Ram.

To prepare Ram for his first-round match against Johnson, O'Shannessy followed his usual practice: He found video of Johnson's recent victory in the final of a Challenger tournament on YouTube, loaded it up on his iPad, trained his video camera on the iPad, hit play and went to bed. The next morning, he downloaded the video into Dartfish, a video analysis program.

O'Shannessy, with the aid of a Dartfish expert, has programmed his own addition to the software (total labor: 100 hours) that lets him code every point of every match.

He marks where every serve lands, where forehands and backhands fall, and what happens on every point (winners, errors, forcing shots). He searches for patterns, develops a plan, discusses it with his players and gives them a sheet of paper with instructions that include numbers and letters that correspond to specific areas on the court.

"A point is like an equation," O'Shannessy said. "I've sat on the sidelines and watched thousands of matches, and every time I watch the video of the match, I learn something new. Every single time."

Game plans don't always work. Ram lost in straight sets to Johnson and squandered an unusual number of break points: He won just one of 12.

But since O'Shannessy and Ram, who is now 28, began working together at a tournament in Atlanta last year, Ram's ranking has jumped to 95 from 272, just inside the precious Top 100 line that separates pros who can gain direct entry into major tournaments—and maybe make a living—from those who take on debt to finance a dream.

"In every other sport, they do this," Ram said. "It's the furthest thing from revolutionary, it just seems to be revolutionary in this sport."

Video analysis has taught Ram more about himself than his opponents. "I've learned how to implement my strengths a little bit better and cover up my weaknesses," he said. "It's definitely helped me be more clear about things."

Ram's chief problem: He's slow. Yet he had been trying to play like faster men tend to do, way over to the left with the forehand side of the court exposed, so he could hide his backhand.

Ram wasn't quick enough to cover the open court, so O'Shannessy presented another plan: 1.) Drive more backhands deep to the left-middle part of the court, rather than crosscourt, and play more toward the center. 2.) Hit more forehands cross-court, rather than inside-out, like most pros do. 3.) Play close to the baseline and rush the net more.

"We make the court artificially faster and artificially more compact, so he doesn't have to run," O'Shannessy said.

It's inexpensive for O'Shannessy to film and tag matches with his software. The most difficult part is finding a spot to hang a camera behind the court, if it's even allowed (at many tournaments, including the four majors, it isn't).

Yet even if every match on every court for the entire season were taped, most players and coaches are skeptical that tennis will ever resemble the NFL.

"[O'Shannessy] does some intense next-level stuff and I think it's pretty useful, but I've never done it with any of my players," said Brad Gilbert, who used to keep meticulous notes on players when he was a pro, and still does as a coach. "In football you have offense, you have defense, you have special teams, there are (46) guys. Tennis is one-on-one."

Ivan Lendl, a devoted scouter who now coaches Andy Murray, sees the benefit in more technology, though he doesn't rely on video just yet. His favorite recent tennis invention: Hawk-Eye, the system that calls lines and tracks point-by-point ball placement (though the data isn't widely available).

"It's brilliant because you can say to them, 'I'm looking for second serves on break points only,' and it's there," Lendl said. "In the old days I had to sit there and mark it myself."

Asked if more tennis players should take cues from athletes in other sports and put technology to use, Lendl was blunt: "If they don't, it's their problem."