Using the example of Dominik Koepfer: Dear tennis parents, don't panic!
Patience is a virtue that would also be good for tennis parents with ambitious youth players (or vice versa). Dominik Koepfer vividly demonstrated this in "Kasi Live" on our Instagram channel " tennisnetnews ".
by tennisnet.com
last edit: Apr 02, 2020, 08:46 pm
Yes, at the moment there are all sorts of reasons to lower the motivation for home training a little, maybe even lose sight of the really big goals. Especially in elite sport, the question naturally arises: what are the opponents doing? Do I train enough? Well: Learning from "Kasi Live" means learning for life: Because on Wednesday evening Dominik Koepfer, Germany's Davis Cup player since last year, in conversation with Christopher Kas revealed that he never more often than before he graduated from high school exercised two or three times a week. And has already been described by colleagues as a "tennis tourist".
Koepfer chose the way through college, opened for Tulane. And it was the first time that tennis fans really drew attention to themselves at the ATP Challenger tournament in Ilkley last year: there, the left-hander beat Dennis Novak in the final, securing a place in the main field in the main field of Wimbledon (Novak had to make it through the qualification go - which the Austrian number two also succeeded). Koepfer's biggest appearance then followed at the US Open, where it was only in the round of 16 that the finalist Daniil Medvedev ended. Before that, German left-hander Nikoloz Basilashvili and local hero Reilly Opelka had defeated.
Dominik Koepfer is currently number 92 in the ATP world rankings. A few weeks ago, the 25-year-old made his debut in the German Davis Cup team, confidently taking the point in the meaningless fourth individual to 4: 1 against Belarus. As usual, very concentrated and calm. Koepfer also explained why he had such a good grip on the pitch: He used to be a hot head, but then a coach gave him a puzzle with 2,000 pieces for processing and calming down. This may also be a tip for tennis parents who are too concerned about their children.