Setelah mengundurkan diri dari arena Tenis, Petenis Indonesia Angelique Widjaja kini serius merintis usaha yang baru digelutinya, yakni sebuah  Event Organizer (EO) yang bergerak di bidang olahraga.

Untuk kegiatan perdana EO-nya itu, Angie, demikian Angelique disapa,  menggelar kejuaraan tenis yang bertajuk “Sportama Championships”  sebanyak  enam seri yang seri pertamanya akan dimulai tanggal 31 Maret hingga 6  April  mendatang di Lapangan Tenis Hotel Sultan Jakarta.

“Saya tidak sendiri mendirikan EO yang diberi nama Sportama ini,”  ungkapnya  saat ditemui di Hotel Sultan Jakarta, Selasa (18/3). Angie yang Desember mendatang berusia 23 tahun ini bersama mantan petenis  nasional, seperti Dede Suhendar, Teddy Tanjung dan Reni Wijaya ini  mendirikan Sportama dengan tujuan menggelar berbagai even olahraga yang sifatnya turnamen dan kejuaraan ini untuk memajukan prestasi atlet  Indonesia.
 
“Untuk tahap awal kami berkonsentrasi di cabang tenis dahulu, setelah itu  kami akan mendirikan sebuah akademi tenis,” jelasnya.

Membuat turnamen tenis Sportama Championships 2008 ini diakui Angie  merupakan pengalaman baru bagi dirinya. “Dulu saat bermain saya selalu  ikut  turnamen dan diperlukan fisik yang prima, sekarang saya harus mengurus  turnamen dan tentu saja petenisnya agar merasa nyaman ikut turnamen  yang  saya buat ini,” tuturnya.

 Diakuinya, pengalaman saat dirinya mengikuti berbagai turnamen Tenis di luar negeri akan diterapkan dalam Sportama. “Apa yang panpel kerjaka  saat menggelar turnamen hingga membuat petenis peserta turnamen itu nyaman akan  saya terapkan di Indonesia, tentunya melalui Sportama ini” paparnya.
 
 Untuk itulah, Angie yang mengaku belum berniat tampil di lapangan tenis lagi ini akan mencurahkan segala pikirannya di turnamen Sportama  Championships ini. “Sebagai penyelenggara turnamen, saya harus ekstra  mengeluarkan pikiran, sedangkan saat main, mungkin hanya fisik saja yang  saya siapkan. Sumber berita : Kompas.com

SPORTAMA TENNIS INSTITUTE JAKARTA
The No.1 Tennis Coaching in Indonesia

Tanya seputar pelatihan tenis , konsultasi karir tenis utk putra - putri anda , atau ingin berlatih tenis secara private , mencari hitting partner , semua tentang dunia Tenis. Hubungi langsung dengan pelatih tenis handal : Deddy Tedjamukti : Hp 0817 871610 , email : coach[at]sekolahtenis.com

The Real Meaning of Tennis Game
And how it relates to life

Players feel empty inside. They lack self worth and self respect and don’t feel good about themselves.

They start playing tennis and notice some results. They improve fast, especially if they are talented. They seem to be good.

They need tennis results to fill their void – their inner black hole of unworthiness and feeling bad about themselves. They think it is tennis results what will help them feel better.

But what it comes down to eventually is that there are no great tennis results without self respect and self worth.

When you play tough matches every part of your psyche is tested. Unless you help your self with every part of your mind, support yourself in critical situations, stay positive and believe in yourself, you will fail.

At the end of the road – tennis results and your tennis career will show you time and time again that it is not tennis that will help you feel better, It is you that must shift from the feeling of self degradation to self respect.

If you do that, your tennis will only be a mirror of that.

That’s the whole point of this game.

It’s just a trick of the universe, god or source energy. It’s just a special way of showing you how important it is to love and respect yourself – without external factors and opinions of other people.

Even when someone tells you this (like me right now), most people resist that. That’s our ego doing its job. It resists and wants to be right even when the information we hear maybe be good and useful.

This is our inborn desire for freedom and individualism. If we think like everyone else, then how are we different? We don’t feel our individuality so we decide for our own view of the world, even if it is not the best one. At least we are someone.

So god or perhaps source energy has figured out a way to bypass the ego – at least in some way. It has designed different games – tennis, basketball, golf and so on in order to show the person how the results are dependent on his self respect and self worth.

Why is this so?

Because in sports like tennis you get immediate feedback. If you feel afraid, don’t believe in yourself, have doubts – you are going to MISS probably 9 out 10 times. You miss 1 second after your negative thoughts or concerns or doubts.

In real life it takes much longer to see the evidence of our negative approach whether we have feelings of unworthiness or just negative thinking about other people which is nothing else than our shadow – our projection of unconscious thoughts about ourselves.

It may take years from the beginning of our thoughts and feelings to see real life results. Since this time gap is so big, we don’t see the connection. We don’t see the logic of all that so what do we do? We blame outer conditions – our partner, life, the government and so on.

It is the only logical explanation left to us.

But when we participate in sports we come to realize that there is an almost 100% connection between our approach – whether it is positive, believing in ourselves, respecting ourselves, trusting in our abilities, seeing what we want to happen instead of what we don’t want to happen and so on.

If our approach is negative – feeling bad about ourselves, not trusting that we can do anything worthy, having deep feelings of self rejection, thinking about negative consequences and so on, then sports results with our misses and losses give us immediate feedback that we have chosen the wrong path.

When we get the message and test it with a positive and a negative approach, seeing clearly what the results are, then we are convinced and sure how to play tennis in order to be the best that we can be.

Then, hopefully in the very near future, we start thinking:” Hey, since this is working in tennis, would this work also in my business, in my relationship with my spouse and kids, with my relation to money and my relation to all that is happening around me?”

When we test our changed approach and stay patient for results to appear, we finally see and understand what this game of tennis was all about.

Because when we see tennis in reality – it’s just two people trying to hit a little yellow ball over the net into two large rectangles. There is no meaning in that. It’s just a game someone thought of. There is no life and death meaning about who is better in hitting a little ball with something that is in his hands into a rectangle.

Even when you are the best in the world you are still only the best in some game that someone invented when he was probably bored and tried to have fun.

But through the game of tennis you come to tests and tough choices which will show you with immediate results how your approach worked.

You only need to see them. Your ego is still blocking you from many obvious results, but they will happen again and again and again.

Until you get the message.

SPORTAMA TENNIS INSTITUTE JAKARTA
The No.1 Tennis Coaching in Indonesia

Tanya seputar pelatihan tenis , konsultasi karir tenis utk putra - putri anda , atau ingin berlatih tenis secara private , mencari hitting partner , semua tentang dunia Tenis. Hubungi langsung dengan pelatih tenis handal : Deddy Tedjamukti : Hp 0817 871610 , email : coach[at]sekolahtenis.com

MASTER SPORTAMA 2008

JAKARTA, SELASA - Pekan depan, dunia tenis di tanah air bakal heboh karena adanya turnamen bertajuk Sportama Garuda Indonesia Series 2008 yang kini memasuki seri Master. Kocek jawara kejuaraan ini bakal bertambah tebal, lantaran hadiah uang Rp 100 juta menjadi haknya.

Seri Master ini akan berlangsung di lapangan tenis Hotel Sultan Jakarta pada 8-14 Desember mendatang. Pesertanya terdiri dari delapan pemain tungal putra dan putri, delapan ganda putra dan empat ganda putri pengumpul poin tertinggi dari lima seri Garuda Indonesia Tennis Series 2008.

Turnamen seri master memperebutkan total hadiah Rp 500 juta ini merupakan akhir dari 5 seri Garuda Indonesia Tennis Series 2008, yakni Sportama Championships, Oke Shop Open, Rizal Mallarangeng Cup, BTPN Solo Open dan Alfamart Cup.

“Untuk pemain putra dan putri yang tak terkalahkan dalam perjalanannya menjadi juara Garuda Indonesia Master Series 2008 ini, kami akan menyediakan bonus senilai Rp 20 juta. Karena itu, seorang pemain putera dan atau puteri bisa mengantongi Rp 100 juta,” ujar Direktur Turnamen Sportama, Teddy Tandjung, Selasa (2/12).

Delapan petenis putra peserta Seri Master adalah Elbert Sie, Sunu Wahyu Trijati, Prima Simpatiaji, Andrian Raturandang, Christoper Rungkat, Sebastian Dacosta, Surya Wijaya Budi dan Nesa Artha. Sedangkan peserta tungga putri adalah Ayu Fani Damayanti, Liza Andriyani, Lavinia Tananta, Angelique Wijaya, Grace Sari Ysidora, Sandy Gumulya, Lutfiana Airs Budiharto dan Septi Mende.

Di nomor ganda putra, terdapat pasangan Hendri Susilo/Nesa Artha, Prima Simpatiaji/Sunu Wahyu, Sebastian Dacosta/Surya Wijaya, Andery Setyawanto/Bonit Wiryawan, Aditya Harry Sasongko/Andery Setyawanto, David Agung/Faisal Aidil, Edy Kusdaryanto/Ferdi Fauzi, Andrian Raturandang/Christopher Rungkat.

Di sektor ganda putri: Ayu Fani/Liza Andriyani, Lavinia Tananta/Jessy Rompies, Septi Mende/Wukirasih Sawondari, Angelique Wijaya/Sandy Gumulya atau Angelique Wijaya/Liza Andriyani.  sumber berita : media kompas.com

SPORTAMA TENNIS INSTITUTE JAKARTA
The No.1 Tennis Coaching in Indonesia

If you ever take a step back and look at the game of tennis, you realize that it’s really just a game.

The whole point of tennis is to hit the ball over the net into the court. That’s it.

The challenges in tennis are the demands of the game and the challenges posed by your opponent.

Here are examples of typical demands that the game of tennis places on you, regardless of your opponent (even if I just feed the ball to you):
finding the proper angle of the racquet head
finding the optimal speed of the stroke
getting to the right distance from the ball in time
maintaining good balance while moving and hitting
swinging at the ball at the right time
and many more.

Now here are examples of the challenges that are the result of playing an opponent:
trying to outmaneuver and outsmart your opponent - winning the strategy game
trying to anticipate your opponent’s game and shots
tempering your emotional involvement in the battle with your opponent
controlling your shots when your opponent puts pressure on you, either with the speed or direction of their shots
and many more.

When you consider all these challenges, you see that they are quite demanding and interesting to deal with. You surely gain pleasure and satisfaction by overcoming them.

But they are just the challenges of a game, similar to a computer video game, in which you must solve problems to win against the final boss.

Yet many of us become totally obsessed with tennis and treat it as the most important thing in our lives.

I see many kids and families invest so much time, energy and money in tennis that I often wonder if they can see the big picture.

You are merely trying to become highly skilled in a sports discipline.

Now think about it - is your time, money and energy REALLY worth becoming just highly skilled in one sports discipline? Aren’t there MORE important things in life?

Where do you rank the importance if these things?
- your relationship with your spouse

- a reliable business or job position with good income

- your relationship with your parents and children

- having many good and trustworthy friends

- living a healthy lifestyle and taking good care of your body.

Do you think any of these things can actually compare with the importance of being really skilled in tennis?

I personally don’t think so.

But…

There is always a but, right?

Here is why I play tennis, coach tennis and mentor tennis players: I see it as a training ground for life.

I clearly see that tennis is just a game and, in my opinion, mastering a topspin serve out wide with good kick isn’t really important in life.

But, WHILE you are trying to achieve that serve, you uncover many weaknesses in your personality and your attitude toward yourself, toward tennis, toward others and toward life.

During your involvement in tennis, for many years, you will HAVE to eliminate those weaknesses. You will have to grow as a person and learn hundreds of things about life that work and don’t work.

The game of tennis is a greatly accelerated training ground for life.

For example, if you hit the ball with fear and doubt, you will get IMMEDIATE feedback - missing the shot in most cases.

Then you might try to hit with decisiveness and total commitment. Again, you’ll get immediate feedback - most likely making the shot.

Life doesn’t usually teach you lessons that fast.

You might approach a business situation with fear and doubt, and the results occur months from now, when your business stops bringing income. By that time, you will have made so many other decisions and taken so many other actions that you will not see the cause of your failure.

So, when you see tennis as an accelerated training ground to grow as a person and learn what works in tennis and consequently in life, then investing a lot of time, money and energy in tennis is a sound decision.

Some of the most important things that you can learn through tennis are:

1. Approaching the situation with fear and doubt almost never results in a positive outcome.

2. It takes a lot of effort, time and patience to become a master of something.

3. When you become good at something, you gain the confidence and hope to try other challenging things in life, which in turn give you much greater rewards than chasing small goals.

4. Analyzing the situation too much is not as good as going with your instincts.

5. But understanding the game well gives you a great advantage over your competition.

6. Repetition is the mother of skill.

7. Some of your thoughts are false, and believing them will hurt you. You learn to check your automatic thoughts against reality (facts) and ignore or change them if they are not true.

8. Most emotions, and your responses based on them, hurt your performance. You learn to release emotions in an appropriate way and at appropriate time (after the match).

9. You learn to channel emotions for more energy and achieve more than if you were numb.

10. And you learn repeatedly that approaching ANY situation with fear and doubt doesn’t work in the long term.

Why did I reiterate in the last point what I said in the first?

Because fear is your greatest enemy regardless of what you are trying to achieve.

Tennis is a precise feedback “game” of what happens when you try a shot or a strategy with fear in your mind. The feedback is so clear and obvious - that fear doesn’t work - that sooner or later you start questioning your fear and decide to have courage.

And tennis will respond appropriately.

And once you become aware of this connection - how fear affects the outcome - you will become bolder in other areas of your life.

And for that, I believe tennis is worth investing in. source : tennismindgame.com

SPORTAMA TENNIS INSTITUTE JAKARTA
The No.1 Tennis Coaching in Indonesia

SPORTAMA TENNIS SERIES

SPORTAMA TENNIS INSTITUTE JAKARTA

In years gone by young players looking to make Professional Tennis a career were for the most part thrown out on the satellite circuit and told to fend for themselves. Most parents didn’t have the time to accompany their child for weeks on end nor the means to finance a travelling coach.

The result of this lack of guidance was a generation of late bloomers. In the last 20 years if you take out the hand full of freak players, it is rare to find a good pro less than 21 years of age where in Europe and South America it’s quite common.

These days it is commonplace to see the top players with an entourage of helpers and “go-fores” to see to their every whim but the fact is they still need to turn over huge money to cover them.

It’s easy to see that a little help whist travelling can take a huge load off young players shoulders, leaving them to concentrate on more tennis related activities.

The financial burden for parents has certainly not diminished but an attractive alternative to a travelling mentor is to have one at home. That way you can develop some of the equipment you’ll need to survive on the tour before you even leave home.

For a very reasonable fee you can take on a mentor who will provide you with the map that will guide you through to the day you leave home for the tour. By helping you to develop good habits, self-belief and routines, the mentor will also in a sense, be with you throughout the trip as well.

Primarily a mentor will give you the tools to take control of your own destiny. They feed you the truth serum early to establish what beliefs you have in yourself and then they find ways to move you toward those goals and then beyond.

The trust established through mutual achievement can catalyse an athlete’s ability to the point where they can play free of the mental baggage that players tend to drag around with them on court.

If you look at Lleyton Hewitt in his early days, you could really tell that he believed he was invincible. The brain helped him to train, the training helped his game, the game helped his brain and around it goes all the way to the top.

Secondly a mentor can help you develop things such as:

• Pre match / post match routines
• Healthy eating habits
• Personalised training regimes
• Personal hygiene advise (e.g. the challengers of travelling in India)
• Travel routines (hotel/flight/ booking. Visas)
• Acclimatisation
• Budgeting
• Tournament scheduling
• Periodisation
• Telephone pep talks
• Injury care
• Equipment managment

Mentors obviously work in close liaison with parents and coaches. Parents are often thrust into the tennis world with absolutely no previous experience and are expected to know what a “round robin” is, or where to get entry forms / draws etc. A mentor can walk both parents and players through all the processes that can be quite off putting especially when you’re nervous enough with just playing the match itself.

Mentors can be both a way to get knee deep into your sport, and on the other hand they can be the ones who see things from a distance, defiantly worth a go.

By Brad Properjohn
TheTennisCoach.com.au

SPORTAMA TENNIS INSTITUTE JAKARTA
The No.1 Tennis Coaching in Indonesia