That’s the flavour of life with the Charlesworths: never pass up the opportunity of a challenge and never take the easy route. I suspect that had they been playing tennis, they would have ripped up the stumps and used them to hit forehands. Their vigorous hitting, occasional cut and sweep shots and frequent six-and-out piledrivers are being achieved with the handle end of a hockey stick. It’s only then that I notice the boys are not using a cricket bat. Family life: Ric, with wife Carmen and their two sons However, ignoring the threat to his expensive fixtures and fittings, Charlesworth’s suggestion this time is that they make the contest more competitive, base it around a Twenty20 format and each face a certain number of balls, bowled by each of them. The second intervention comes about half an hour into our chat, after the ball thwacks for probably the fifth time into the feature glass doors courtesy of a full-blooded drive down the wicket.
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They all troop off, with Oscar returning sporting the full Aussie cricketer look factor 50 all over his face. However, the first time Charlesworth intervenes is to berate the trio about their application … of sunscreen. If your father is one of the world’s best coaches – and I don’t just include hockey in that – you’re not going to get away with sloppy standards, even if it’s just a hit-about between friends. I’ve played on it, and a decent serve from the deuce side at the kitchen end will swerve right into the chicken coop, but at the moment it’s playing host to a game of backyard cricket between son, Oscar, and two of his mates. The yard, as they call it here, is just about the size of a tennis court.
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I'll learn and come back better.He lives in the fancy Perth suburb of Nedlands and I come through the shady front yard, with its lap-pool and comfortable outdoor furniture, and through the main door into the heart of the home, the kitchen with its large family-sized dining table and view into the back garden.Ĭarmen, Ric’s wife and the mother of his two youngest boys, makes coffee because he apparently has no idea how to work the machine. Just serve to the body and play the point. "Especially when serving for the set, there's no pressure on me so why would I go for bigger serves. It's going to be in my head till tomorrow, because there were so many points where I could play better and handle myself better," she said. Sabalenka's defeat was only her second in 19 matches this year and she said she would need time to overcome it.
I was over-reacting and wasn't there in the first two games in the second set." It's okay to not play your best and keep fighting and keep using the rest of the weapons. "So it's a reminder that it's okay to still struggle with something. Not every match will be going your way and you'll be serving perfectly," Sabalenka said. "There will be some days when old habits come back and you just have to work through it. Sabalenka struggled with her serve over the last few years before a stint with a biomechanics trainer turned her weakness into a weapon, which she used to great effect en route to her first Grand Slam title in January.īut in a rematch of that title clash, the Belarusian struggled with accuracy again as all 10 of her double faults came in the opening set of the Indian Wells final. (Reuters) - Aryna Sabalenka said she had slipped back into "old habits" with her serve during her 7-6(11) 6-4 loss to Elena Rybakina in Sunday's Indian Wells final but the Australian Open champion vowed to learn from her mistakes and come back stronger.
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