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Old 08-14-2020, 12:51 PM   #9
Brian Swartz
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Join Date: May 2006
Absolutely enter something every week. Doubles and singles both at the same event. As many practice tournaments as you can get away with, but you need to enter competitive (everything else, amateurs, juniors, etc) events periodically. How often you do that depends on how often you need to keep form at 15 or higher so you don't have an experience hit from it being too low. That's another reason to be playing at a level you can be fairly successful at and not push up too fast, because if you make, say, SF or better consistently you're getting several tournament matches (several form points) and can then take more practice weeks off. If you are losing in the first round all the time, you have to keep playing more competitive events to deal with your form, and then get friendlies or whatever the rest of the week because after that loss there's no more matches to play. All of that is very bad for your player's progression.

The idea is basically to use all your fatigue. If it ever hits zero you've done something wrong, because that's a missed opportunity to gain experience and improve.

One thing you could do is post the stats for one of your developing players, maybe a screenshot of their recent schedule, and I could give you feedback based on that if you want a more tailored/specific approach.

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