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Rumors are absolutely true. Am really good friends with a guy whose younger brother is a pro American player on the tour, who said that he had something like eight different girls on rotation. This is pretty well known amongst players on the tour. Doesn't surprise me that JMac would spill the...

Hi there, My brother and I are looking to enjoy some tennis on a trip to Europe this month, and would love to hit up clubs that will have either of these surfaces open to paying public. We will be staying in Salerno/Amalfi area, Rome and Florence. We don't plan on bringing tennis racquets...

I personally think Djoker's backhand is better-looking than Nalby's. But I'm of the camp that a beautiful one-hander will always look better than the best-looking one-hander. Also there tends to be more variation in style for a one-hander, making it more of a 'signature' shot. Naturally this...

He'd fit right in 5.0 leagues and do well in Open tourneys. I hit with some local D1 grads from GMU, who mostly make it into the finals of Men's Open $$$ tourneys and they hit like that. They play in 5.0 leagues but mainly because there are no 5.5 leagues around. There's no way he's 4.5, simply...

This. Let me break down the proportions of what you should work on, if you want to become a much better player: 40% Footwork 30% Consistency 20% Shot selection 10% Swing technique If you are taking lessons to truly improve your tennis (and not just get a workout / plateau in 3.5-4.0...

If you play top 3 in high school, you may be able to walk on and play at a very low-tier D3 school. I had a friend on my HS team who did that - he had the ugliest strokes but he could keep a rally going and was athletic as hell (also played varsity basketball / football in HS). As for D1/good...

I agree. What happened to that thread?? Great pictorial, btw :-D

I have a basket of those and use them with my students and my 14-yr-old brother (he is 5'6") fairly regularly for drills, but NEVER to hit live balls/play points with. They are definitely harder than regular balls, although they are as good as pressureless balls get. Using them for regular...

Many immigrant parents have something to prove, because they usually start at the bottom of American society when they first get here. I say this because my parents are first-gen immigrants (Chinese) so I understand their mindset. They go above and beyond what the average, fifth-generation...

Agree completely. The last thing I want to see is the money of hard-working, dedicated parents being literally drained to scam artists who barely know any tennis (assuming that this is what you guys are talking about - I'm having a hard time decrypting some of these posts). It hurts the truly...

This. This is what so many people on TT don't understand - legit 5.5s (as in under-35, maybe 40 yrs old if really fit) are very complete players. Weak groundstrokes and short rallies, even when turning up the pace, just doesn't really happen at that level. One of my friends is a regular hitting...

Eh... the back toe gives it away. Go look at Fed from other angles and his knees (and toes) undeniably point in the same direction together. Denis Istomin is one out of hundreds of ATP pros who has his, so I admit that I shouldn't have said ALL pros have their toes pointing in the same...

The guy had a platform stance, why are you talking about pinpoint stances? Even with that said, show me a good pinpoint serve among pros with their back knee flaring away from the front knee.

He made very valid points. 5.0+ serves will hit the back curtain on indoor courts well before the second bounce, without exception. You've got at least two serves there that land on the second bounce before reaching the back curtains, and those that do don't sound like gunshots when they hit the...

Absolutely no disagreement here. To clarify, me saying she can handle it definitely does not mean I condone it. I personally would never do this to anybody's kid, let alone my own when I end up having kids someday. I'm thinking this dad is probably so unaware of his own obnoxiousness that he...

The dad is definitely a nuisance. That's why as a coach, you have to enter a psychological contract with the parents from the very beginning and let them know that when the kid gets on your court, the parents must SHUT IT. That's how I handle my students & their parents, and it's been smooth...

And to clarify my comment about the wastefulness of a pause in your backswing, think of it in terms of drag racing. Given the same car, a car that accelerates from 0-100MPH vs a car that accelerates from 15-100MPH, the one that is in a slow cruise will always win with a significant savings in...

I agree with the comment about your BH being an issue, but disagree with the cause. I don't think you're so much overstepping the shot as much as you're underspacing for the large final step toward the ball. If you want that big final step, you first need to make room for it by moving back /...

2009 Volkswagen GTI. Before you all start flaming me as a trust-fund baby or something - I paid for every penny of it on my own, and got it at the age of 21 after I got my first full-time job. Parents never let me have a car in high school and I didn't need one in college. All those years of...

To clear things up, I wasn't talking about watching the ball longer at contact. That is always a good thing to do and I usually hammer that into my students. I meant that, after you hit the ball and it goes to your opponent, you spend an extra 10ms to see where your ball lands instead of...

Bagel, it's really hard to tell when your clips are so short. What I can say is this - although your strokes look good generally, I have to wonder how they are as you increase to a 10-shot, 15-shot, 30-shot+ rallies. Sometimes, apart from pace, it is hard to differentiate between true 4.0...

I see what you mean. I guess I sorta went on a tangent. I'm Gen Y and prone to ADHD, so give me a break :p If you mean by the shots where Murray basically has no backswing, and returns back where the ball came from, then it is still part of the "modern forehand", at least IMO. The modern game...

ib... once you start thinking about the wrist, your arms will start doing all sorts of funny things. The most cliched but useful tip for tennis is to think of your arms as whips. They are merely a tunnel to release the energy generated from uncoiling your torso / hips / legs. Once you start...

Joel, I'm a member of demonoid.me and asiatorrents... so I know the drill. Both sites require a high seed/leech ratio. Let me know. Thanks again.

Can I get an invite to either/both as well? Msg or email: mike@fuzz-tactics.com Thanks!

Yup. This is the way most top juniors, including my 2hbh students, are being taught. Shots out wide, unless absolutely unreachable, are generally defended using an open stance 2-hander, not a slice (although the slice is now, more than ever, a critical shot to learn). OP, you are very astute...

I played hockey growing up, then switched to tennis, so I can comment :) Hockey is definitely a "tougher" sport physically, but not technically. It is physically demanding and the pain tolerance among hockey players is insane. However, tennis is unsurpassed technically except for maybe...

Slightly off-topic, but the most annoying tennis videos on youtube have to come from that hi10spro guy. If he's a poster on these forums, he's got some splainin' to do. The guy posts the most technically / tactically incorrect tennis analyses videos on youtube, and he's got people subscribing...

Ok ib... you ready? Forehand: Extend your elbow out on the follow-through, towards where you hit. This does not mean the extension is generated by your arm. Your elbow should extend towards the target as a natural result of the uncoiling you achieve from your legs and outside hip (Outside...

@r2473 Thanks for the advice. My intention is not, however, to run my tennis biz as a hobby. I am going all-out with expansion plans, budgeting, record-keeping, and multi-year revenue projections, all in the hopes of shifting as much of the burden of proof away from myself and to the IRS, in...