Welcome to TennisCruz! ATP, WTA, ITF, ETA, tennis instruction and tennis video lessons.
| Login Form |
|---|
Tennis Cruz 
TENNIS TIPS Aspiring Juniors You don’t have to play great every day just better than the person on the other side
TENNIS TIPS Aspiring Juniors You don’t have to play great every day just better than the person on the other side | |
| You don’t have to play great every day just better than the person on the other side |
|
|
|
|
While watching the US Open last year I heard Andre Agassi make a statement
while he was doing some guest commentary work that I think is very important for
aspiring juniors to hear. This philosophy should get players to play more with their heads and not always with their rackets. What exaclty does it mean? It means you have to think through matches and adjust your style to do the things that your opponent doesn't like and make him play worse than you. Can you serve and volley when your opponent doesn't like to be rushed? Can you attack the second serve to take time away from your opponent? Can you sneak in behind one of your forcing groundstrokes when you've taken your opponent out of the court to take their recovery time away? Can you play a low slice backhand to keep the ball down low to a western grip forehand? Can you play a higher heavier ball to get the ball out of your opponent's strike zone? These are just a few adjustments you should be able to make to be able to think through and change the rhythm during a point. Lots of junior players don't have the variety to make these changes so they can only hope that the game they play is better than their opponent's that day. If your game is that good and it's always better than your opponent's and you never have an off day then you'll probably go a long way in tennis, but if you're mortal and you sometimes have off days then you may want to think about learning to play with some variety. This is something that should be worked on when the player is young so it can already be a foundation of the player's game and can be used in the heat of battle Brian Gottfried http://www.solomontennis.com/ ----------------------- Brian Gottfried is an extraordinary individual, in April 1977, Newsweek said he was "simply the best male tennis player in the world at the moment.", won 25 single professional ATP titles and was French Open finalist in 1977. Brian is also one of the best doubles players of our era with many victories including the Italian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. Sérgio Cruz Tennis Cruz Main Page 
|