PLAY BETTER TENNIS

I could not be happier with the 4 semifinal this year's Masters Cup in Madrid. I think they represent the transformation of the game is currently undertaking.
I once heard John McEnroe said that it is very different from learning to play with a wooden racket and get a racket high technology, it is to learn to play on one of these snowshoes. It could not have been more correct.

It was natural that the new technology in rackets lead to the great serve first, followed by big groundstrokes. Sampras has embodied this change. He forced the game to a new level.
Then, Federer arrived and was unbeatable for over 3 years. The game has a new leap and it did.
It took time for coaches and players to realize that the same technology that empowers racquet has also increased the capacity of the accuracy and variety. The channel won the manufacturers in any game before and achieved, players can do incredible things with a ball. I watched Federer hit a shot to be bent 2 feet, intentionally. Wash Conners never see or curve ball?

Now it seems that the court people have added their contribution and the courts have been slowed. Nobody, I think, that typing loved was under way, the kind James Blake and Andy Roddick embody, one with groundstrokes and the other with serving. The new slower courts reward the player who can keep the ball alive and hit angles and spins.

Of course, there are still players who continue in the old style, and they will win from time to time, no one can deal with the incredible pace they can strike, if not disappeared. It is a big "if".
With the new strategy is a new type of player. This game is intended to reward the player Intelligent again. Not that a good man can not play tennis dumb, James, but if you can think of your feet, you'll quickly discover that the variety is available.

In truth, the game is returning to its roots. When the game was created, very few aces have been affected and they were well in sight, not crushed. Players moved from each other around on the grass, most often not perfectly flat, with rackets to wood and nervous with thick ropes without pop.
However, hidden in this wonderful transformation is a concern: the height of modern tennis players. We can consider a player say, 7'6 "and athletic. It can be used regularly to 150 km / h and hit places in the service box, nobody has ever touched before. He can not play the rest of Thursday, but it does not do so. It wins (or lose) each match 7-6, 7-6. The founders were smart enough to work in preventing this scenario. You had to break your opponent's serve least once in a set to win. However, the recent addition of tiebreakers opened the door to a service of the machine is well done. We have a couple on the Tour yet, Ivo. Slowdown of Justice has helped But they will still win their share.

Well, there are a lot of tennis on the horizon. It May American coaches take a few years to understand that they are training "old" players (someone wake up Donald Young), but I think they are catching on. Tuesday fish is to develop a game all courts.

If you do not move your game forward try. See how you can turn the ball hit the corners and your opponents can never achieve. The first step is to learn to stand closer to the baseline, or at least be willing to move forward at the first sign of a short ball. No matter how strong you are, you can not hit many winners from 10 feet behind the baseline, Roddickland, and it is too far to close in on a short ball. Realize that you can hit the ball on a short hop more easily with these big rackets, so retirement is not as necessary. Try to hit the ball on the rise, especially the return of service. You do not have to return the explosion, the service was probably skip you and you just have to redirect. If you're inside the base, the ball back to your opponent so fast, they have little time to respond.

Next find topspin and slices. Singing is very effective against the culture of firecrackers. They like a ball and most are "rhythm" of players. I force takes more than a statistician can measure. This statistic probably changing needs. There is a big difference between missing an easy groundstroke and vicious missing piece to your ankles after touching a topspin before firing and a flat disc of the ball before. Change should be granted because of its strategy, but currently only outright winners to hit, that is smashing the ball your opponent can not reach, is credited with the win. "

Well, many in the game must evolve to adapt to the transformation. And we can all hope that the 7'6 "player with the giant serve does not anytime soon.

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