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    Accepting that you cannot use poly strings

    You are one of those "no facts, just take my opinion as fact" kind of guy. You literally have 0 argument. I take upwards of 15 hours to break a multi setup. I takes me an hour to break multi mains poly crosses, 3 if it's in the reverse setup. It's like clockwork, experimentally provable. Your...
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    Accepting that you cannot use poly strings

    It's also a fact that a lot of players in your country don't break multis in under 10 hours. It's also a fact that the Earth is round, but lots of people still claim it's flat.
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    Best Multi for tennis elbow

    Do not hybrid poly strings with multis. It's even worse if you put a textured poly in the cross with multi in the mains. I am amazed you got 10 hours out of it. Normally people pop it in under an hour. If you take care of it, and have the weather for it (not raining nonstop and not high...
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    Accepting that you cannot use poly strings

    Not an opinion it's a fact. OP also stated he pops a full multi setup in under 10 hours. I guarantee the setup you suggested will not last an hour in his racket. Poly shaves down multi like no other. I thought every stringer knew that fact.
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    Accepting that you cannot use poly strings

    Not a good idea to use a high end multi in the main with poly crosses. It's many times more expensive than using gut poly due to how quickly poly strings cut through multis (same holds true if the multi goes in the cross). If he's breaking multi setups in 10 hours, then multi poly hybrids will...
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    Hitting winners with only spin, cheating?

    ESPECIALLY if you hit it short.
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    Hitting winners with only spin, cheating?

    The safest way to hit winners is to keep giving your opponent balls to hit until they can't run to the ball anymore. Spin with no pace is a good way to set up the other guy to hit winners though.
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    Stuck on Serve - Opening Face?

    Throw the edge of the racket at the ball. You care too much about controlling the results, that's why your racket face is opening up early.
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    Looking for serve advice

    Your general setup is pretty good If you want topspin, the toss needs to be further to the left, where contact will be made over your head. The racket is too vertical at contact. To fix this, you need to move your toss to the left and to make the angle between the racket and your wrist to be...
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    "3 Tips To Improve Your Service Game."

    Tips for holding serve - just be a better server. :-D Honestly, anyone can use these tips (except varying the positioning, that is exclusive to baseliners). Taking pace off is just the general "get 2 out of 3 of first serves in" tip. Varying positioning forces the returner to stay focused. Even...
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    Returning dink serves

    If you really want to swing 100% on it: Make sure you're completely on balance before hitting the ball (wide base, legs loaded/knees bent). Swing through the ball and use a lot of topspin. I don't generally recommend this in doubles. It's a very "if you're on you're on" and "if you're off...
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    Work On Your Second Serve Return - Lessons From A Match (Video Included)

    Yeah, it's something I should've focused more heavily on a long time ago. But it's all the culmination of a drastic all around change to my game in the past few months finally coming together. I know the feeling of tweaking a serve... It's time consuming and not a lot of fun. Serve...
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    Work On Your Second Serve Return - Lessons From A Match (Video Included)

    I enjoyed watching your ability to run corner to corner and return the balls back deep so I never really noticed, but that takeback is not "optimal". You leak it too far back before the leg drive. If you get the tip of the racket to point a bit to the right (like Roddick, Nadal, and Monfils who...
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    Federer is the Toughest Out in tennis

    This is a pretty bad metric. It's basically a measure of how good your serve is more than how hard you are to close out.
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    Do 6.0 ntrp players normally have pro career aspirations and how long does it take to get there?

    While I don't know the rough estimate of UTR vs NTRP for that level, but for reference, top 10 WTA is ~13 UTR. Iga Swiatek is currently at 13.33. Looking at the UTR rankings, the 125th highest ranked college player in terms of UTR is 13.07. Pranav Kumar is 12.82 atm. Obviously UTR and rankings...
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    doubles bad for development at 3.0-3.5?

    Here's the thing - every level up to 5.0 should probably learn to lob way more than they currently do. Even just using high loopy topspin balls is an underappreciated skill. Lobs and overheads are probably the two most underdeveloped and underutilized skills in lower level tennis.
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    Do 6.0 ntrp players normally have pro career aspirations and how long does it take to get there?

    https://www.usta.com/content/dam/usta/pdfs/10013_experience_player_ntrp_guidelines.pdf Basically you're looking at the top 125 D1 college players (not schools, players) and retired pros or players who got stuck in the satellite and futures bracket. So yes, most of them have pro career...
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    We practice by playing sets, and no one is getting any better.

    Alternatively, practice using second serves instead of first serves. You should be getting nearly every serve in, and the returner should be getting most returns in. I practice serve points primarily using second serves. If you have a big enough second serve that the returner is still struggling...
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    We practice by playing sets, and no one is getting any better.

    Sets are definitely less time efficient practice, but you can still use them to practice what you're bad at (it's just a lot slower). Just force yourself to hit more of the shots you want to improve. You'll lose more, but it's not an official tournament or league match anyway, so it really...
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    I as a junior player am starting to feel like I am burnt out, does anyone have advice for me?

    1) How many official matches have you played? These rating systems are only accurate if you play a lot of officially recorded matches (minimum 25, optimally 100+). 2) If you've played a lot and the rating is correct, it's fine. Focus a bit more on school, but you don't have to give up tennis...
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    In doubles one of the opponents dominates net

    He wrote "often very close", which I interpret as hugging the net (which is something a lot of dominant net players do). I feel like low and hard over the middle is probably one of the easier shots. You can also try dipper middle, then learn to slowly add pace to it over time. Honestly, there...
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    How to handle deep lobs in doubles

    Can't disappoint if you never had expectations. :cry:
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    In doubles one of the opponents dominates net

    Whole list is great except for the last one. If we're assuming he's hugging the net, getting it low on him will be really tough. I have a friend that plays similarly (makes my service games extremely easy), and nobody has been able to get the ball low on him without horribly shanking it and...
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    How to handle deep lobs in doubles

    Easy solution: Just get better at overheads. Actual solution: Step 1: The instant you see the lob, BOTH of you run it down. One will be setting up to take it out of the air and the other one sets up to take it after the bounce. Step 2: The person who would hit an overhead yells "MINE!" or...
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    Good videos

    A lot of good stuff from My Tennis HQ and Mouratoglou's channels. And most people need to look at this series of videos.
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    Drills and advice on how to get to the ball earlier

    That comment was generally meant for attacking the short balls, but it also applies to deep balls, depending on the height of the bounce. If the ball bounce is high (over the shoulder), then you can't attack the peak and have to make a quick decision whether to take it on the rise or when it...
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    How make the ball stay low?

    If you mean flat as in spin, then no, it makes no sense from a physics perspective. If you mean flat as in the relative flight trajectory over the net, then yes, that's what you want. Slice reduces the bounce height because (without going into the physics), it reduces the vertical bounce speed...
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    How make the ball stay low?

    Aim low over the net, have a relatively straight flight arc over the net, and add underspin. In general, adding a lot of underspin is sufficient to keep the bounce lower than normal and is the best way to go about it (with enough spin, you can hit the ball 3-4 feet over the net and keep the...
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