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Well, because the books and instruction articles said the arm should be straight, I would make sure to hyper-extend the elbow before beginning the forward swing. As soon as I began doing that, I lost virtually all ability to brush up on the ball. If I keep my arm relaxed (that is, without...

I'm sure I saw Sampras hitting with a wooden racket in an exhibition in North Carolina when he was a boy. Maybe it was when he was 16. That might rule him out as GOAT, if none of his major wins were done using a wooden racket. My criteria for GOAT is how good a player you were, not just how...

Most arguments over who is the GOAT insist that someone so deemed have been great on all major tennis surfaces -- grass, clay and paved. I think that to be the GOAT a player has to show he could be great with wood rackets or with graphite rackets but with both. Otherwise, he's just a...

The distance is so great and the camera speed so slow that I really cannot tell whether there is a slight (e.g. 10 degree) bend in the elbow or not.

I learned to play over forty years ago -- in those days most good players hit their backhands with a continental grip; only a few still used an eastern backhand grip, and the only people using all-knuckles-on-top western backhand grips were self-taught people who weren't very good. So there was...