You mean there is more than a title? Yes, there is, and yes, you can really beat a tennis player who is allegedly a "better" tennis player you are. Before you say how, if I want to imagine this:
Imagine that you could just stop time when your opponent hit a tennis ball to you. Is this great or very great? Let's see what we could discover about what our opponent will do and to exploit if we could stop time by magic. First, we were able to discover the following:
• We could say where the ball was going, so we can get in position, and once we were in perfect position, we could 'start time "and click again a huge ball, because we would be ready.
• We can analyze the position of the enemy on the ground, and decide where we wanted to hit the ball - obviously, to a place on the ground that make it difficult for our opponent to return the ball .
• We have seen what kind of spin was on the ball and be ready for that.
• We could see where our opponent is the body position relative to the power of the baseline, and perhaps try to "wrong foot" our adversary.
There are all sorts of things you could do, and this "magic" scenario they all help us win a game. It is, however, one thing that this scenario would allow us to do is to "steal time". What I mean is that even when you magic "started" on many occasions, the same number of seconds continue to tick, and we would still be good plans that all the above "analyze" has enabled us to be ready to strike.
However, it is a way to steal time to opponent. What I mean by "theft" is time to give your opponent less time to react than normal. If you and your opponent are both on the baseline, bursts slugging back and forth to another, hitting the tennis ball on top of its bounce, the advantage will always go to the player with :
• More powerful and more precise bursts
• a better flow
• Improved fitness
It is a given. Just watch a couple of matches early round on the slow red clay at the French Open and all the doubts that you will be quickly removed in May. However, there is a way that the "best" player can be beaten, if you can learn to "steal" the time they need to plan their next move. There is a time tested, proven match Grand Slam of proven way to steal your opponent at the time. The way to do is ... drum roll please .... ready ?.... hit the ball on the rise.
This is a better way to reduce your opponent's reaction time. Most players, however, back when a tennis ball is hit deep into their yard. Their logic is to get into position to hit the ball after it heights, while the ball is moving downward, and in their "wheelhouse" (waist level around). They are more comfortable doing this because:
• This is how they learned to do, so they miss-click 'the tennis ball
• They have been fed thousands of tennis balls in this way by their pro tennis when they are first learning to hit bursts.
• It is easier to hit the tennis ball on the "down" from the top of its bounce because the ball has slowed, making it easier for the player to hit at their current level of eye-hand coordination.
• Since they have "sustained" and behind the baseline to await the tennis ball to drop in their wheelhouse, the chances of hitting a ball long, past the opponent's reference decrease.
You could call all the reasons mentioned above "logic" but they will not help you beat a "better" tennis player because of the following:
• Just make the ball over the net is not enough to beat a "best" player.
• While you were "backup" behind the baseline waiting for the ball fall into your wheelhouse for you, it might hit your opponent has been the recovery of their tours and moving back into position to prepare for your next move. This will not help you beat a "best" player.
• Now that you're well behind the baseline when you click your photo, you need more time to recover from a position of your opponent for the next shot - and remember, they are already in the position of your next move (which is one of the reasons why they are the "best player ')! Again, will not help you beat a player better. "
Do not fear, however. If we are on our soil or just behind the baseline (6-12) at rallies and ground stroke hit the ball on the rise, suddenly, a world of possibilities open to us . If you make sure you stand your ground and not back, then what happens is this: When you receive your opponent's ball, the ball will still travel through your post, but it is travel from the base, and faster than it would be if we let it reach its peak and begin to fall again. Here's how you get your opponent and suffering (Doom on them):
• Since you are now hitting the tennis ball when it bounced up off the court, you give your opponent less time to react to your photo. (The tennis players are human beings, too, and most people to consider the "best" way to do something, rather than the more "efficient". It's human nature, though most players , Including the so-called "best" players that you wait for the tennis ball to bounce up and back down again before they hit it. As is the case, your opponent will not be used to play people that hit the ball on the rise. They are not prepared for a tennis ball that comes to them quickly. This will help you fight a "better" tennis player).
• You are now in a better position to respond to your next opponent of the ball, because your six feet behind the baseline trying to get back in position, you are already! Your "better" opponent is used to hit winners and force errors again, because most "best" player opponents are behind the base waiting for the ball drop in their wheelhouse. By being proactive and hit the ball on the rise, you make your opponent work increasingly difficult to pull themselves out of position. This will help you fight a "better" tennis player.
To give you an idea of the importance of striking the ball is on the rise, and the spectacular results that you can get by doing so, here's a list for you to watch. Though not a complete list, here are some examples of current and former male Grand Slam Singles winners of the tournament that could - and did - always hit the ball on the rise:
Pete Sampras (7 Wimbledon, 5 U.S. Opens, 2 Australian Opens)
Roger Federer (5 Wimbledon, 4 U.S. Opens, 3 Australian Opens)
Jimmy Connors (5 U.S. Opens, 2 Wimbledon, 1 Australian Open)
Andre Agassi (4 Australian Opens, 2 U.S. Opens, 1 Wimbledon, 1 French Open)
Over the past 33 years (since 1974), there were 132 men's Grand Slam singles winners, four men and above account for almost one third. If you add the combined 20 Grand Slam Singles Runner-Up, they have finished, you're looking at 62 Grand Slam singles finals between these four players. That is nearly half years of the four Grand Slam singles finals, for a period of 33 years, shared by four players - all of which have hit the ball on the rise. This figure should open their eyes.
Why not more players hit the tennis ball 'on the rise? Simple answer: it takes practice and timing, and faith and perseverance, in short, it must work. But you can do. Persistence is key. If you can commit to it and not rest until you get the results you want, you have won 90% of the battle, and a brand new - and better - game you attend. There are several techniques I use when teaching my students the "how" to hit the ball on the place that I do not have the space to fit in this article. Remember that you do not get it perfect, it just goes. Start hitting the ball on the rise, and practice, practice, practice! Then ensure that "best" player wonder why you are so difficult to beat these days!
For your massive success of tennis,
Coach Kyril
Kyril Popoff is a former NCAA div1 All-Conference tennis player, instructor, coach and author.
His books include the ten laws of the success of tennis and to concentrate and win: why your tennis game is not where you want it, and what to do about it!
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