Competitive high school sports

FollowTheReaper
Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:29:45 +0000

My doubles partner in tennis is pretty much the same way. He’s never really showed much interest in tennis; it seemed like he was playing it just to simply play a sport. A year ago, he got a private coach who can tell that this kid really just isn’t that motivated, so he pushes him insanely hard in effort to toughen him up and make him better, but it really just makes him hate tennis even more. Although his game is definitely improving, you would think he would be a god now with the type of training he does, but really he’s still just… above average. It’s pretty sad to see people like this, to be honest; you can see their heart isn’t in it, so why do they go through what they do when they really just couldn’t care less? It gets to the point where this guy doesn’t ever want to play tennis outside of his private lessons because he’s so worn out and tired of the sport. It’s frustrating being his doubles partner sometimes, but I don’t have the biggest selection to choose from on my high school team, and he is decent.