Training for Tennis

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 182, 3 August 1937, Page 8

Training for Tennis

A CHAMPION’S DIET Diet and training secrets behind the coaching that brought Miss Alice Marble, lawn tennis champion of America, back to health, gaiety, slim beauty of figure —and triumphs on the court — after 18 months’ serious illness are secrets that every girl and woman might be glad to learn. Her coacli, Mis.. Helen Tennant, says, 4 ‘l think the principal thing is just a matter of tho regulation of sensible habits. My pupils have to conform to the following diet scheme —I do not believe in lots of fruit. “ 4 I think that girls in training should have regular hours of eating. If it is

their custom to have breakfast at nine o’clock, they should have it at nine o’clock sharp. 4 4 For breakfast I prescribe in the first place fruit and fruit juices, brown bread, toast, marmalade and coffee, and a little bacon perhaps once in a while, or an egg now and again. 4 ‘For lunch I think salads are always good—just light salads, say, tomatoes and cottage cheese or pineapple and cottage cheese. “For dinner I think they should have meat, what you would call under-done. A steak and, occasionally, a iamb chop very well done—but not mutton. After the meal a little cheese. Occasionally, , perhaps, a glass of sherry or some light ‘ ‘ I think a tennis player should have eight hours’ sleep at regular hours. The principal thing all through is regularity in eating and drinking and habits. They should have their meals one hour before they play, and I do not think they should eat a heavy meal for an hour or two hours after they have played.”