Serveitup Tennis Magazine #48

Issue #48 February 2020
NEW
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FEATURE
Pg 30
real junior tennis
Find A Way To Win
Create Offense From
Defensive Positions
Having A Junior Serve
At Age 19... Oh No!
2019 Lil Mo
U9 CHAMPION
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Tennis Talk
PUBLISHERS DESK
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“the show must go on”
Now is the time to get back to work. Your dreams and your goals, never takes
vacations, or lay around waiting on you to make up your mind. Everything is
time sensitive, and the longer you wait around to make up your mind, the more
likely you are, to lose it.
You have been given the opportunity to start afresh and anew with your game,
your attitude, and your life, all over again. All the mistakes and errors you’ve
made are in the past behind you.
Make a plan to work on the things that you’ve been struggling with. The show
must go on, are you ready? Remember this is your life and if you don’t like the
way it is going, YOU can change.
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Our Credo
in this issue #48
February 2020
Serveitup is the quintessential junior tennis magazine. We intend
to promote and showcase only junior tennis players 18 and under.
Serveitup lays claim to the fact that we are real junior tennis.
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Cover Story:
Who Is Leila Hunter
Serveitup is the most unique, dynamic, cutting-edge junior tennis
publication on the planet. Our vision at Serveitup, is to transport
you every month, on an exciting journey into the remarkable lives
of real junior tennis players. We will tell their stories and reveal
who they are. You will know about their Lifestyles, Fashion, Tournaments,
Health & Fitness, Achievements, Equipment, Instructions,
Goals, Passions, Training Methods, Travel and much more, before
they become the next tennis superstars.
We will strive for excellence in every issue. Every publication will
be specifically designed to deliver the most relevant resources to
educate, motivate, empower, showcase and interact with all junior
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Aces And Faults.
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Cover Story: Who Is
Leila Hunter.
tennis players. We will chronicle the lives of the junior players, as
they begin their pursuit into that elite world of tennis stardom.
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Your Weaknesses Are
Gonna Be Exposed.
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Centerfold.
For this reason Serveitup is totally free and 100% juniors. We will
promote junior tennis players, whether they play the junior circuit
or the pro level. We intend to affect junior tennis globally by getting
Serveitup into the hands of current and future junior tennis
players. That makes Serveitup a must read for every player... and
their parents? So get all your photos and content ready, and send
them to info@serveituptennismagazine.com
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Confident Players
Never Rush.
Work On Other Areas
Of Your Game
Insert Competition In
Everything You Do.
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Create Offense From
Defensive Positions.
Find A Way To Win.
Matches Are Easier
The Harder You Train.
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Having A Junior Serve
At Age 19 Is A No No.
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Photo Of The Month.

Faults
Tennis Talk
“too many extremes”
Aces and
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These Are Only Faults!
Every junior tennis player look
forward to playing a tournament
in beautiful weather without the
threat of rain.
But these ideal situations, may
not be ideal to the players, and
it can go from one extreme to
another.
In wanting to finish tournaments,
directors have asked players to
play anywhere from tie-breaks
to abbreviated sets in order to
get everything completed.
The other extreme is asking the
players to play three matches in
one day. That is two out of three
sets with regular scoring.
This is just not acceptable, and
players don’t have any say about
it - they either play it or default.
And of course no one wants to
default.
This is one of the reasons many
players get injured, and have to
pull up lame and retire in their
matches.
The body need more time to rest
and recover to avoid injury.

Now is the time when you are a junior tennis
player, that you should be working on
correcting your weaknesses. Avoiding or
trying to hide them just so you can win,
will only lead to major problems later on.
Deal with them now, or eventually they
will expose you.
YOUR
weaknesses
ARE GONNA BE EXPOSED

confident players NEVER rush!
It’s so very easy to recog-
er, comes to a match, goes
match, they are very patient
their bag, and storming off
nize the confident from
through their pre match rou-
and meticulous with every-
the court. On the other hand,
the non-confident players,
tines, and then relaxes with
thing they do. Even after the
for the non-confident play-
before, during and after a
a book or music until their
match, they ‘re not distraught
er, everything is completely
match. The confident play-
match is called. During their
over a loss, by snatching up
the opposite.

onCourt
onCourt
with
Leila Hunter
with
Mekhi Gbedey
Instagram: @gogo_hunter
Instagram: @mekhigbedey

you need to work
on other
areas of your game
besides your
FOREHAND
Lots of junior tennis players have been
seriously affected by the snippets of what
social media shows, of the pro players.
Social media mostly shows a pro player
winning a shot with a monster forehand.
So everytime a junior player gets on the
court, they are working on improving their
forehand, and neglecting other areas of
their game.
That’s a big mistake! your game has many
more areas to it, than your forehand.

You think throwing your racket in anger,
frustration and disgust, makes you
so cool. Don’t you know how stupid you
look having to walk behind the racket,
STUPID
you look
everytime, to pick it up, after you threw
it. Now that’s dumb! Apart from that you
get a racket abuse violation.
having to pick up your racket
after you threw it

Competition is the reason players
train so hard for many years, to be the
best. Without competition, you can
never be tested, and you can never
become the best. Start cultivating
competition in everything you do...
on and off the court, so it becomes
second nature.
insert
competition
in everything you do!

This is for all the players who need to
guage their games as to where they
are. The game will answer it for you.
having a junior serve
at age 19 is a
No No!

Cover Story
From USA with love
Instagram: @gogo_hunter
LEILA HUNTER

Leila Hunter started playing tennis at the
age of 5. She will turn 10 April 30th of this
year. She was born in Southern California,
but we moved to Georgia when she was
3.
We currently live in Keysville, Ga. which
is a suburb of Augusta. During the week
she trains in Atlanta and comes home for
the weekends.
She is being trained by Fred Haynes. He
is the father of Angela Haynes who also
mentors Leila and was a top 100 player
in the WTA in 2005.

This past September, Leila competed and
won the Little Mo 9u National Championship.
She also won the same event as an
8-year-old making her a back to back Little
Mo National Champion.
She followed that feat by competing in
the Little Mo Florida International event,
in December.
Leila successfully defended her 8u singles
International Championship by winning
the 9u singles International Championship.

Along with, first place in doubles and
mixed doubles completing the hardfought
trifecta. Leila is ranked 3rd in her
class according to tennisrecruiting.net.

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FEATURE
Samuel

Take your game to the next level, by
observing pro strategies. From any
defensive position on the court, they
are able to play aggresively and play
offensively. Playing that way, will take
your game up to a world class level.
create
OFFENSE
from defensive positions

FIND
a way to
WIN
You can win with the game you have
right now, because winning has to do
with an attitude. If you give your game
to a positive forward thinking mentally
tough person, they will take it and
win with it. So stop berating yourself,
and find ways to win.

the harder you train
the easier your matches
This is in the same vein as the more
cruel the war, the quicker it will end.
If you train hard, with everything you
got, and give it your all, winning will
become easier and easier. But it also
holds true if you don’t give it your all.

Fitness
footwork!
2019 Lil Mo
U9 Champion
Never have your
heels on the
ground!

Photo of the Month
Artist: Cat Lee
follow her on instagram @colacatlee
signs of things
to come!
Julia G

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