{"id":181602,"date":"2022-01-03T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=181602"},"modified":"2022-01-04T14:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T14:00:43","slug":"coachs-painful-advice-as-greeks-serve-implodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=181602","title":{"rendered":"Coach&#039;s painful advice as Greek&#039;s serve implodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team Greece coach Apostolos Tsitsipas and No.2 singles player Michail Pervolarakis engaged in a testy mid-match exchange tonight as Pervolarakis endured painful service problems with his ball toss.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing Argentina&#x27;s Federico Delbonis 7-6, 3-0 in the ATP Cup in Sydney, Pervolarakis was bombarded with advice from Tsitsipas &#8211; the father of Greece No.1 Stefanos.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Don&#x27;t rush. Why are you rushing the first ball?&quot; Tsitsipas asked a clearly annoyed Pervolarakis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/atp-cup-2022-alex-de-minaur-primed-for-huge-year-after-win-over-matteo-berrettini\/d134ba2d-7fde-4aad-b497-72afd8ea5fba\" target=\"\" title=\"Demon&#x27;s message after rocking the tennis world\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Demon&#x27;s message after rocking the tennis world<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/atp-cup-2022-day-3-live-scores-updates-results-novak-djokovic-status-for-2022-australia-open-still-up-in-the-air\/4892dabb-1108-4443-99db-fc103f3d524c\" target=\"\" title=\"ATP Cup live coverage\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ATP Cup live coverage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/news\/nfl-2022-antonio-brown-throws-tantrum-storms-off-from-tampa-bay-buccaneers\/b2b473f6-cbe4-4f18-ab40-2426f4a5436f\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Controversial NFL star rips shirt off, quits team\"><strong>Controversial NFL star rips shirt off, quits team<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"e7367262-c2d9-4780-b7db-bd4be94d4f55\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/e7367262-c2d9-4780-b7db-bd4be94d4f55\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1920\" data-height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is way too much information&#8230; has to be simple,&quot; Pervolarakis replied.<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas didn&#x27;t listen as he kept gesticulating and bombarding the world No.399 with his thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Pervolarakis appeared to be tuning out the animated coach but the pair did slap hands in a friendly enough fashion before returning to the court.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The 2022 ATP Cup will be held in Sydney from January 1-9, with live matches, highlights, mini matches and full match replays on Stan Sport. New customers can start their free trial now by visiting:<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/tennis?utm_source=wwos&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=tennis\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Stan.com.au\/tennis\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Stan.com.au\/tennis<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6289783960001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/01\/401744\/pickerimage.jpg\" alt=\"Michail\u00a0Pervolarakis\u00a0vs\u00a0Federico\u00a0Delbonis: ATP Cup 2022\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckxyewks800890oqjxgbr1g5f\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;You can see with a player if they do get an overload of information that it becomes a bit confusing,&quot; John Fitzgerald said in commentary for Nine and Stan Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Especially if you&#x27;ve lost the first set. If you&#x27;ve won it you can accept it a little more.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The tennis court is a very lonely place when the simple art of the ball toss goes awry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos\/status\/1477909126571126787?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos\/status\/1477909126571126787?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;He (Pervolarakis) was just talking about how he was thinking so much about his ball toss, too far left, too far forward &#8211; that&#x27;s not an easy place to be when you&#x27;re thinking about a ball toss,&quot; Mark Petchey said in commentary.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;No, because you&#x27;re thinking about structurally trying to put a point together and win it,&quot; Fitzgerald replied.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And you&#x27;re reacting to the other player&#x27;s moves as well, where he hits the ball.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Pervolarakis did at least win the next game before falling 7-6 6-1 in the opening match in the tie.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Team Greece coach Apostolos Tsitsipas and No.2 singles player Michail Pervolarakis engaged in a testy mid-match exchange tonight as Pervolarakis endured painful service problems with <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=181602\" title=\"Coach&#039;s painful advice as Greek&#039;s serve implodes\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181604,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181602\/revisions\/181604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}