Adidas Athletes Prepare In Las Vegas

Written by: Mats Merkel on 15th August 2011

Adidas Athletes Prepare In Las Vegas

Jack Sock of the US hits a backhand return to Marco Chiudinelli of Switzerland during their first round match at the 2010 US Open Tennis Championship at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing, Meadows, New York, USA, 01 September 2010. The US Open Championship runs through 12 September when the men's final is scheduled to be played. EPA/JUSTIN LANE |

(Above: Jack Sock)

“Adidas athletes prepare in Las Vegas for the upcoming hardcourt season – US summer”

Before the big events come up some of our Adidas players decide to come to Las Vegas in order to prepare for the hot and tough upcoming period.

The so called “US Summer”.

This year Jo Tsonga, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Jack Sock came to Las Vegas to work with Gil Reyes on the physical side and and with Darren Cahill and Mats Merkel on the tennis part.

The Adidas player development program makes sure that the players and their support people who are with them is well taken care off.

Sometimes the physical work comes before the tennis and sometimes the other way around. It is all about communication and to satisfy the players.

Jack Sock who recently has signed with adidas was practicing every day with Jo Tsonga even hit with Andre Agassi when he came out there to hit a couple of balls and pass on his advise and experience to the other players.

It was a great 10-day period and we wish our athletes of course the best of luck!