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A lot of the talk and discussion around this place is over whose favorite player is better than whose, but in the middle of all that I feel that we don't indicate as much how we feel about the rest of the field. So in this thread, talk all about your second favorite pro player on the tour...

Are there any tips or things you tried that you thought were really weird but somehow helped your strokes? If so, what? I have one, today I noticed that when Safin hits a backhand he juts his left elbow out like he's trying to elbow someone behind his back. You can see it in this clip...

Around two weeks ago I lost my ability to hit a two handed backhand. If I try to hit one, one of two things will happen. 1: It ends up all spin and no power and will go around ten mph into the middle of the net 2: If I try not to spin it it will fly randomly with no spin or control and...

We have filled countless threads on the degeneration of the roddick forehand so I won't go in depth with regards to it. A similar thing has happened to my forehand recently. I hit with a few juniors the other day just for fun and I have a strange habit of subconsciously imitating the...

I just finished McEnroe's biography a few months ago and was watching some of his matches online. As always I am blown away by the shots he created, obviously particularly at net. I'm willing to accept that someone like me will be fortunate ever to develoP even a fraction of his touch, but I...

So the other day I was playing a match and I got my butt handed to me. I didn't really play badly for me but the guy was just too good. Anyhow my opponent had a terrific slice backhand. He could do anything with it, take pace off, drive through it, anything you could think of. Almost like videos...

Who do you think has the best one? Let me explain what I mean though. By this I mean the sum of all that they can do on their backhand side including a drive, slices, passing shots, returns and volleys. For example Djokovic and Agassi have two of the best backhand drives of all time however the...

This happened to me recently. About two weeks ago I made a breakthrough on my forehand and I was hitting it about as well as I ever have. Then about three days ago in the middle of a tournament its effectiveness just collapsed. I lost the ability to drive it with consistency and while i could...

What are the best tiebreakers that everyone can think of within the past decade or so? The two that I can think of are the 4th set tiebreaker in the Wimbledon 2008 final and the first set tiebreaker between Djokovic and Dolgopolov in the 4th round of last years Open, Any other really cool...

My backhand has gone through some ups and downs throughout the past several months and it is currently ok, but I'm having trouble hitting a controlled drive shot, that is I can hit hard but it will be fairly flat, and I can hit with spin but it will be sort of a puffball stroke. Does anyone have...

It's frightening to watch pro's practice, particularly berdych and federer. They seem to be able to crush the ball almost effortlessly. How would someone do this? Any ideas?

I used to use the full frying pan serve, but over the past few months I've slowly rotated my grip to an aussie forehand grip, basically almost continental but still a little easterm. Ideally I'd like to rotate it a full bevel, ie almost an eastern backhand grip. I know this will take a lot of...

I have heard that many pro's with good backhands use this configuration of their arms. Would it be beneficial to hit like this? If so how would one hit with this configuration?

On the backhand side I have a pretty small backswing which helps me take the ball on the rise and hit good returns of serve. On the forehand I have this lleyton hewittish loop that really hurts my timing and my returns. Are there any drills or concepts that I should focus on to correct this? I...