Liam Caruana Copper Bowl 12 and Under Winner
Posted January 11, 2010 – 1:35 pm in: Current Client Chronicals, TennisCopper Bowl Wrapup - 12s and 14s
by Ali Jones, 11 January 2010
On the first week of 2010 new arrivals and competitors from the previous week’s Winter Nationals converged at the Hilton El Conquistador in Oro Valley for the annual Copper Bowl, originally held alongside the football contest of the same name.
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Boys 12s
Fifth seed Liam Caruana had a simple plan coming into the Copper Bowl.
Boys 12 Champion Liam Caruana
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“I came here to win the tournament and I won,” said the blue chip from La Jolla, California.
He came into the finals with straight sets victories and lost only 11 games.
“He had a beautiful semi [against 8th seed Kalman Boyd],” said Max Caruana, Liam’s father. “He brought such energy like I’ve never seen before.”
But during the finals, Liam found himself in a hole and gave up his first set of the tournament to top seed Anudeep Kodali of North Carolina.
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My name is Max and I am the father of an 11 year old tennis player, Liam, who lives and trians in San Diego, California. I would like to share my story of how Paul Pisani has positively affected Liam’s tennis development in the last few weeks.
I contacted Paul a few months back when I felt that Liam’s tennis training was in need of some additional push on the fitness/strenght side. Paul suggested we could work through his online program and a local trainer he knew. Although I was initially skeptical about the online approach, I liked Paul’ tennis specific approach and I went for it. For the first few weeks Paul worked on Liam mainly through a local trainer based in San Diego, but when it came our time to head to Miami for Liam’s first Jr Orange Bowl, Paul wasted no time to get things in his own hands and drove down to meet us and spend time with Liam and me…training . Well, that turned out to be a week none of us will ever forget…. I will focus on the tennis/training side of the story because Paul was able to get Liam and myself completely aware of the role fitness and strenght can play in today’s game of tennis. His energy, his workouts and his approach, although designed for professioanl athletes, can transform the way a junior player approaches his matches, both mentally and phisically. Liam ended up making the qurters of the Jr Orange Bowl’ back draw after qualifying through some very hard matches……and best of all, ended up winning the very next national tournament, Copper Bowl in Tucson, Arizona, to start the new year. I truly believe Liam owes this win to the hard work put on the track and the gym and Pauly’s new strength approach !
Thanks Paul.
Max
Hands down, Pizon (Pauly P, Pdizzle, or just Paul Pisani), is one very motivating individual! The man has shared of some his talent with me, and for this I am very fortunate as well! Thanks Paul for everything and see you in our next training session!