To summarize, the #1 modern tennis story is about the passive arm. It is the minimization of arm’s contribution in pace generation for the forehand first. The same is going to happen in the serve. Federer let his hitting arm take the back seat in the forehand hitting, using an open stance and...
Why forehand evolved to a totally different stroke both form wise and techniques wise in recent decades, but the serve is still kept mostly traditional?
I don't pretend to have the answers. I once asked an elite player during a presentation; then we had a conversation afterward. We kind of...
Just wrote a short article -
Division of Labor and Delegation of Task In Tennis Strokes (a Forehand Example)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/division-labor-delegation-task-tennis-forehand-example-gary-e-lou/?published=t
Your critiques are welcome.
I've been advocating open style tennis serves fore a while now. Since my practices and my point of view were in direct contradiction to the 'official' recommendations for coaching/training tennis serves, one can imaging the overwhelming negative responses I got so far. Even so, I have been...
My first tournament in 25 years and I made it to the finals! For some reason my serve was off and I double faulted on Match Point. Was a close close match but it really sucks to lose.
He also gamed me in the first game! Very unsportsmanlike.
This serve needs more spin, so someone spins me around, lol, to let the followthrough be free and unconstrained.
I said two years ago that it may take 10 or more years to open the serve to use open stance, and later also added open grip to it. Seeing more 4.0 and 4.5 gals and guys use open...