Played awesome tennis yet again..
I was serving beautifully from forehand side - same as yesterday
Tossing the ball to the left ear side seems such a minor adjustment but it's having such a pronounced effect
On the backhand side, I started gingerly but I knew what had to be done and I stuck to the same. This was where I was erring y'day and I was able to introspect and rectify the same.
As a result I was able to it some nice serves on the backhand side too. On the forehand side I was just unplayable today :)
The other thing that's having a super effect is attaching the ball.
Since attacking the ball is such a loaded concept, I've simplified it tojust taking the ball on the rise and rushing to the net when the opportunity presents itself.
This has really helped
The other thing that is really helping is the forehand grip - Now I wait on the forehand grip on my serve returns and 90% of serves are to my forehand
This is such an eye opening detail
I'm also hitting very well on the forehand side. This is also primarily due to grip change
Another innocuous change that is having such a pronounced effect on my game
Also noticed that I can up the ante on per demand basis now.
I was trailing 40-0 on Suri's serve and I upped the ante and was able to push it to Game-30
In his last service game I won 0-40 by just attacking the ball more.
Just the simple posture of taking the ball early and goingwith the forehand grip is working like magic since the rteurns are much deeper and the opponent has trouble handling the same
Enjoying tennis more and more because of that.
Here are the things that I learned yesterday but didn't write here
Forehand
1. Attack the ball - 2 options for net play (Volley + Thumping the ball down). To effectively thump the ball down, you'll have to take it on the rise. So this automatically gets you on attack
2. Wait on the forehand grip
Backhand
1. Practice against the wall in the basement (-2 level)
2. Open your stance a bit more. This is helping me sit down a bit more which was what I was struggling with earlier
Serve
1. Toss the ball a bit more to the left. This is really important. Do this on both forehand and backhand sides
2. To pronate more, move abit to the forehand or backhand side. This and the toss help in really pronating the body
Work
When Working from home, getting out of work mode is a problem
I was serving beautifully from forehand side - same as yesterday
Tossing the ball to the left ear side seems such a minor adjustment but it's having such a pronounced effect
On the backhand side, I started gingerly but I knew what had to be done and I stuck to the same. This was where I was erring y'day and I was able to introspect and rectify the same.
As a result I was able to it some nice serves on the backhand side too. On the forehand side I was just unplayable today :)
The other thing that's having a super effect is attaching the ball.
Since attacking the ball is such a loaded concept, I've simplified it tojust taking the ball on the rise and rushing to the net when the opportunity presents itself.
This has really helped
The other thing that is really helping is the forehand grip - Now I wait on the forehand grip on my serve returns and 90% of serves are to my forehand
This is such an eye opening detail
I'm also hitting very well on the forehand side. This is also primarily due to grip change
Another innocuous change that is having such a pronounced effect on my game
Also noticed that I can up the ante on per demand basis now.
I was trailing 40-0 on Suri's serve and I upped the ante and was able to push it to Game-30
In his last service game I won 0-40 by just attacking the ball more.
Just the simple posture of taking the ball early and goingwith the forehand grip is working like magic since the rteurns are much deeper and the opponent has trouble handling the same
Enjoying tennis more and more because of that.
Here are the things that I learned yesterday but didn't write here
Forehand
1. Attack the ball - 2 options for net play (Volley + Thumping the ball down). To effectively thump the ball down, you'll have to take it on the rise. So this automatically gets you on attack
2. Wait on the forehand grip
Backhand
1. Practice against the wall in the basement (-2 level)
2. Open your stance a bit more. This is helping me sit down a bit more which was what I was struggling with earlier
Serve
1. Toss the ball a bit more to the left. This is really important. Do this on both forehand and backhand sides
2. To pronate more, move abit to the forehand or backhand side. This and the toss help in really pronating the body
Work
When Working from home, getting out of work mode is a problem
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