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This is exactly my philosophy. If I can get by hitting slices and moonballs that I know I can make all day, and make progress in the rallys with those shots, why would I consider hitting more difficult/tiring topspin shots? Once someone shows me that 100% pushing won’t get me anywhere, I know I...

Don’t let them get you down, and definitely don’t change the way you play. All this “pushers can’t make it past 3.5/4.0/4.5” is nonsense. Just keep doing you, and improving incrementally and you’ll be fine.

I’m in Southern California. I’m definitely not against playing on a team, USTA or WTT it just seems like the barrier to entry is figuring out when seasons start and then finding a team. Is anyone allowed to start a team, or do you need to have played before?

I started playing tennis a few years back. As someone who has never played any USTA tennis, every time I go on the website to consider registering, it just doesn’t seem worth it. Locally I have a really active GTN ladder, which I think is $10 a year. I’ve been able to get close to 100 matches...

Ya that makes sense, not a serve I typically go to... Guess I’ll need to take the basket over to the court a few times this week.

Had a league match today, lost in two tight sets. My return game was working about as usual, but I couldn’t hold serve near how I usually do. My opponent altered his return game to stand well inside the baseline for first serves, and further inside the baseline for second serves. I’m a lefty...

I had never played tennis at all until I was 30, and decided to buy two $20 rackets and a can of balls from Target. I got my gf to go out and hit with me at some courts across the street from our place. I played with her and my brother (neither of which had played any tennis before) for about 5...

As a lefty who likes to slice out wide on the ad side really consistently, I would recommend cheating significantly over to that side until he shows you that he can consistently burn you down the T. Even if he does start to burn you here and there down the T, I would still cheat over a lot of...

I wear an Apple Watch with the Swing app installed and I really like it. The app estimates how much pace/spin you are putting on the ball and can also keep track of the score and stats of the match which helps.

Thanks for the feedback guys, definitely appreciate it!! Sticking with the slice and to the backhand of a righty makes sense. For some reason I’m more confident slicing out wide on the ad side, then down the T on deuce, but it could just be mental. I’ll have to keep working on it.

The slice serve out wide on the ad side seems to be a clear go to for a lot of lefties, but what is generally the go-to on the deuce side? As I lefty I have found myself much more confident serving for to the ad side, but haven’t developed a lot of confidence on the deuce side. Maybe flat and...