She also hears that they don’t make as good hitting partners as men — even though female players don’t hit against men in competition. “Some of us,” Harris said, “have never been given a chance.” At its root, King and others say, this is not merely about women’s tennis. ...
While coaching a junior group this weekend a couple of them had trouble hitting forehands down the line. They would often twist their arm around like a pretzel to get the racket to aim down the line, thereby messing up their stroke. The correct way is to either take the ball a little ...
You’re not replicating match conditions as the ball comes back at you on a flat trajectory. You can practice facing shoulder high balls by first hitting the ball into the floor, so it rears up against the wall and bounces much higher. You then backpedal and take the ball around shoulder...
The sun comes out, along with an eight knot south westerly fit for kite board sailors; hitting tennis balls off your orange Radical7 with a tension of 50 lbs becomes a random and rare occasion. Insects get in your eyes. Dogs may appear and later their owners. Now come crying children w...
Team up with other parents.Start with simple things like carpooling to tournaments or coaching sessions, and be creative about finding other ways to get the most mileage out of the resources you have. Good hitting partners for example is a great way of getting good practice cheaply. ...
just getting out of the house. The competitive side doesn’t go away just because you’re away from the tour.” And, she added, she misses “the money, too.” She gave a “50/50” chance that the tour would formally resume in 2020 and revealed that she’s been hitting with college...
The final important aspect to cover before you start hitting balls is your footwork. Many players are taught all the strokes first, from a stationary position, and then footwork and movement is added in further down the line. This seems like a bad idea to me. Table tennis is an active ...
“I couldn’t begin to tell you how many tournament matches I won between the ages of twelve and fifteen against bigger, faster, more coordinated and better-coached opponents,” Wallace wrote, “simply by hitting balls unimaginatively back down the middle of the court.” I couldn’t tell yo...
Using a round, metal-framed racquet that required precision hitting, Connors went on to win eight Grand Slam titles and finish with a Grand Slam match record of 233-49, bettered only byRoger Federer(369-60) among retired players today. He also embarked on a stretch of 160 consecutive weeks...
(By the way, the doubles alley is called the tramlines in Australia. Something you might want to know if you were invited to help Owen Davidson in his presentation and he’s telling the audience about using the tramlines to work on their consistency while you’re just hitting groundstrokes...