Interestingly, each of the Big Three has had a “superstar” coach who won a major and was ranked No.1: Rodger Federer-Stefan Edberg; Nadal-Moya; Djokovic-Boris Becker and Agassi. Each has also had a conventional coach, a former player who did not play top-10 tennis. (Federer had Seve...
Note that any offensive power shots that occur before this still has an effect on the player who will use the power shot. and either or : The player performs a Defensive Power Shot, which can cover the ball to great distances if power shots are turned on and if the players' racket ...
Roger used this racket between 1998 and 2001 in which he featured in the main draw of 10 Grand Slams. It was also the racket he was using when he decided to dial down his on-court temper after losing in Hamburg against Franco Squillari. Roger smashed his racket up badly that day after...
Then there’s the compressed nature of the event. Seven days seems like plenty of time in which to conduct a tournament. And it assists player scheduling by avoiding the usual problem (a problem we’d like to have) of going to the late rounds of a main draw Challenger and having to p...
difficult scheduling-wise. Here, indoors, it’s not a problem, but outdoors, especially in the summer, when it’s superhot or when it rains, it throws the schedule completely off. If it rains in the first one or two days, it’d be tough to play that many matches with no days off....
Something bad would happen and he’d lose his temper. He’d break rackets and curse at himself in Serbian. He’dhit himself in the headwith his racket. Once he got his emotion under control, he started winning tournaments. Or, wait… was it the other way around?
One of the main benefits of an aggressive game style is that it takes the racket out of the other woman’s hand, even at the cost of some mishit service returns and wild groundstroke misses. Tauson, so far, has been unwilling to make that trade. It’s unclear whether she has the ...
2Pong, where your racket is basically a glove with a hitting surface. SmashNet, where the table becomes a big trampoline net. Teqball and Headis King Pong Shirts Here’s what you get when you go to Amazon and put in “King Pong Shirts” – there are so many to choose from! You...
The fifth is a straight shootout and Roger has the early chances, looks ultra calm and composed throughout but after missing his chances throws in a shocker game and Anderson mops up in convincing fashion. A lot of Fed’s losses I’ve covered over the years have been where the legs can...
One of the main benefits of an aggressive game style is that it takes the racket out of the other woman’s hand, even at the cost of some mishit service returns and wild groundstroke misses. Tauson, so far, has been unwilling to make that trade. It’s unclear whether she has the ...