WisconsinPlayer
Professional
forehand shortballs under pressure and overheads
What is your weakest shot ??
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Bender
G.O.A.T.
My day to day consistently is utter ****. Sometimes, I'm absolutely miserable on court.
Either I'm raining flat / topslice aces on first and second serves, and putting away balls with my FH and BH from anywhere on the court, or I'm double faulting like Coria and / or spraying balls from the baseline left and right like a sewretchian.
On a good day, I can hit my coach off the court or at least keep it somewhat competitive. On a bad day, I make 3.0s look like Federer.
Good news is that my running FHs and BHs, BH smashes, and BH slices tend to remain pretty consistent. My mental strength is holding up far better than before (I used to be about as mentally strong as Tomic on match point down, 6-0, 5-0). So it's a matter of getting my normal groundies and topslice serves that need to work every day, then I should be alright. Volleys are getting better, but I'm happy with it because it used to be atrocious. Now it's serviceable.
Either I'm raining flat / topslice aces on first and second serves, and putting away balls with my FH and BH from anywhere on the court, or I'm double faulting like Coria and / or spraying balls from the baseline left and right like a sewretchian.
On a good day, I can hit my coach off the court or at least keep it somewhat competitive. On a bad day, I make 3.0s look like Federer.
Good news is that my running FHs and BHs, BH smashes, and BH slices tend to remain pretty consistent. My mental strength is holding up far better than before (I used to be about as mentally strong as Tomic on match point down, 6-0, 5-0). So it's a matter of getting my normal groundies and topslice serves that need to work every day, then I should be alright. Volleys are getting better, but I'm happy with it because it used to be atrocious. Now it's serviceable.
tennis08tarheels
Hall of Fame
Overheads.
QuentinFederer
Professional
Backhand return is my weakest shot. Overheads are pretty sketchy too.
My big weakness is trying staying positive when I'm not playing well. I can be a bit like Fognini on a bad day.
My big weakness is trying staying positive when I'm not playing well. I can be a bit like Fognini on a bad day.
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1HBH-DownTheLine
Guest
overheads and my damn forehand volleys. i can never keep a firm wirst on those. backhand volleys are perfectly fine and can really punch those well with pace or slice or whatever i want to do but forehand volleys are very inconsistent.
Lord Anomander
Professional
I have a few weaknesses, but my greatest obviously is my second serve. If I get tight I just push it into the field, should switch to underhand serve, but I really want to do it the right way, which leads to DF and pushing. 
Other than that my forehand volley is bad, as the previous poster mentioned, I can't punch them. Also if I'm pushed out wide on my forehand side, my unit turn sometimes falls apart. I don't get behind the ball, rotate to early and end up with a weak short ball. However, my forehand wing has improved a lot of the past weeks and I'm pretty happy with the results. I just fall into old habits at times, especially when I'm under pressure and don't have the necessary time to set up for the shot, i.e., I'm too late to stand still before hitting my forehand. Most of the time this happens when my opponent attacks the net and takes away time from me or if the coach feeds balls from the net to the bh and then to the fh.
Other than that my forehand volley is bad, as the previous poster mentioned, I can't punch them. Also if I'm pushed out wide on my forehand side, my unit turn sometimes falls apart. I don't get behind the ball, rotate to early and end up with a weak short ball. However, my forehand wing has improved a lot of the past weeks and I'm pretty happy with the results. I just fall into old habits at times, especially when I'm under pressure and don't have the necessary time to set up for the shot, i.e., I'm too late to stand still before hitting my forehand. Most of the time this happens when my opponent attacks the net and takes away time from me or if the coach feeds balls from the net to the bh and then to the fh.
First volleys while moving forward to the net.
I tend to move forward with my racket down and therefore end up having to bring the racket up and volley in one motion. Yes, the volley stroke itself is a small punch, but it ends up being a huge swing because the racket is coming from down and behind. It was a lot of years before I figured out why I had so much problem volleying since the volley stroke itself is fine and when I was practicing volleys I would be already at the net with my racket up and I could volley fine.
There are a lot of factors in tennis.
I tend to move forward with my racket down and therefore end up having to bring the racket up and volley in one motion. Yes, the volley stroke itself is a small punch, but it ends up being a huge swing because the racket is coming from down and behind. It was a lot of years before I figured out why I had so much problem volleying since the volley stroke itself is fine and when I was practicing volleys I would be already at the net with my racket up and I could volley fine.
There are a lot of factors in tennis.
Simon_the_furry
Hall of Fame
This is me right here.
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AllCourtHeathen
Guest
forehand and return of serve.
****s me to tears.
****s me to tears.
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1HBH-DownTheLine
Guest
SinjinCooper
Hall of Fame
Anything with Red Bull, but especially Jager Bombs. The taurine headache really harshes my buzz.
tennis_balla
Hall of Fame
I have a weakness for it
Dartagnan64
G.O.A.T.
Strokes I am weakest with: Forehand volley (tend to pop it up too much), Overhead smash (tend to mistime it too much thanks to my lack of depth perception) and Serve (limited shoulder ext rotation due to surgery many years ago)
Balls I have the most trouble with: overheads to my BH side, high bouncing moonballs to the BH side, very low skidding shots
Balls I have the most trouble with: overheads to my BH side, high bouncing moonballs to the BH side, very low skidding shots
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Deleted member 23235
Guest
serve
Not true have someone serve to you from the service line (other side) First forehand than backhand. First catch ball, second catch and push (No backswing) and eventually your timing gets you to point you can handle serves better. 20 minutes every time you practice. Return the favor for your partner
sphinx780
Hall of Fame
After last weeks doubles outing, I would have to say that my running out of the court backhand slice, cross court drop shot needs some serious work. That, or my head, but I'm going with working on that shot because, holy hell, if I pull that off, it's gonna look sooooo pretty.
Taveren
Professional
Yup thanks for the tip, what I meant was that it is difficult to find someone to do drills with (for me). Most of the time the guys I play with want to play matches directly. Some even cut the warm up short.
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2HBH-DTL
Guest
overheads. just like djoker.
