I’m sure many a 9-year-old could teach you like a pro at this, but it was a sensory overload for me. You’re handing the player the towel while balls are rolling at you from all directions as the player on your side of the net prepares to begin his service game. Nielsen was a...
When they do rally, because the balls are spraying everywhere, they can’t really develop their strokes and timing or get into a groove. But they have to learn to hit together. The key is to expect to move, rather than wait and see if you have to, and then you just move to the ...
What I miss most about competitive tennis is nothing. What I love most about my occasional return to the court is the smell of a fresh can of balls. That rich fragrance of rubber and plasticizer, which I suspect is doing me no favors in the brain cells department. Now, like in the ol...
Second, with the rise of the backhand banana flip, most players focus on that, often using it even against short balls even to the forehand side, at the expense of developing their forehand flip. And so, against short but slightly high balls to the forehand side, many modern players can...