Soufiane Azargui: Taking Over Colgate

Written by: Soufiane Azargui

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***19 year old Soufiane Arzagui came to Toronto from Morocco at the age of 10 and a half. Over the next 7 years, Soufiane developed as an excellent tennis player winning singles and doubles titles at the national and ITF level as well as maintaining a high academic level at Bateman High School in Burlington. After six years at the ACE tennis Academy he fulfilled his objective of receiving a scholarship to an Ivy League school, Brown University in September of 2010. Soufiane will be blogging us on a regular basis about his freshman season.***

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This past week was yet another hard practice week in preparation for our match last Saturday against Colgate University, held at our “home away from home” in Riverside, Rhode Island. We were going into this match as heavy favorites to win but we wanted to use this match to keep our intensity at the highest level and work on certain aspects of our game that we had worked on in our previous practices. I was set to play #1 doubles with my good friend Brandon Burke and #6 singles. We came out strong, sweeping all three doubles matches, winning ours 8-2. We continued our momentum into the singles matches, winning 5 of the remaining 6 matches, where I won my match 6-0 6-2. All in all, I feel that this has been a successful week with a very solid weekend by our team as we beat Colgate 6-1 and have gotten better at playing the “patterns” as our team Coach likes to preach. Anyways, I’ll keep you guys updated on this week as we began our preparations for a tough upcoming weekend against two solid teams! 🙂 Off to class, I’ll talk to you guys later!

February 7, 2011

College Tennis Alumni at the 2021 Australian Open – Part 1: Men’s Singles by Michal Kokta

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With the first Grand Slam of the year winding down, I wanted to do a little introduction to the main draw players, who competed on the collegiate level before turning pro. This will be a short series of four parts: men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, and women’s doubles.

Week at Wilson – Interview with Pierre Lamarche

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Interview by Blair Rickers, Wilson Sports This week we interview Pierre Lamarche whose career in tennis spans close to 70 years. Canadian Junior and National

A deeper dive into second serve statistics

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The two most widely reported second serve statistics in professional tennis are the number of double faults a player hit, and their second serve winning percentage. If we’re trying to understand the effectiveness of a particular player’s second serve, relying only on those statistics has significant drawbacks. Article by Michal Kokta.

Yves Boulais: No Excuses… Get Working

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Yves was proud to work with players including Greg Rudsedski, Patricia Hy, Oliver Marach, Eugenie Bouchard and Rebecca Marino, who achieved excellent results on the world stage. He was an Olympic Coach in Barcelona 1992 & Atlanta 1996, and Captain of the Canadian FedCup Team 1998 – 2000.

Week at Wilson – Interview with Pierre Lamarche

February 11, 2021

Interview by Blair Rickers, Wilson Sports This week we interview Pierre Lamarche whose career in tennis spans close to 70 years. Canadian Junior and National

Update on UK Tennis Situation with Master Louis Cayer

March 25, 2020

I would like to share a mindset I instil in all the players I coach, one I believe has greatly influenced all of the player’s performances; “whatever happens, I can handle it.” This mindset is achieved through a systematic, tactical development process, so that whoever the opponent, whatever the surface, regardless of the environment, or scoring, the players can, and will rise to the challenge as it is presented.