Today, David took to the tennis court for the first time since Estoril. He spent about 20 minutes hitting groundstrokes (no serves, no volleys). Very leisurely at first, then with a little more intensity towards the end. And definitely not completely static as he suggested in his interviews...
The Fue Buena blog organized a live stream of David's training session. And not only that, there's also a recording of it for those who couldn't watch it live:
After the finishing his training, a happy and relaxed David answered the questions of the assembled press. Though it's virtually impossible to understand anything he says because of the poor quality of the clip:
Looks like there will soon be more interviews. (I won't have much time until the weekend... We'll see.)
Update
The first quotes from David's post-practice interview are in (from Telam).
He was training with Luis Lobo at the Vilas Racquet Club.
Everything went well and he didn't feel any discomfort.
The "idea is to come back at the Australian Open". But if he can, he'd like to play earlier than that, for example at the Copa Argentina. Though he can't really say now if that will be possible.
He's aware that he'll need to be in really good shape for the Australian Open because of the heat and the best-of-five format.
As long as he doesn't feel any pain, he'll spend ten minutes more on court every week. And if all goes well, he expects to be "moving on court" in three weeks, and doing full training in six.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
Fantastic to see that training clip. I was surprised how much David was moving, it all looks very positive...apart from the dodgy camerawork. ;-)
Yes, it would be great if David was ready to come back before the Australian Open, and get some preparation for that.
Yeah, the camera work is pretty dodgy. Does the person holding it not have a zoom on his camera? Everyone has it these days!
Great news that David will be able to undergo full training in six weeks.
Even though he didn't move much in the video, it still didn't look casual. I mean, they basically kept rallying around for quite a while without rest. For me, that looks tiring! (but of course it's not for him)
Yes, I was shouting "Zoom in, zoom in!" too.
Either the camera person had no idea there was a zoom button, or they were taking an "arty" video of some concrete and railings, and David playing tennis was incidental. ;-)
Post a Comment