FedForGOAT
Professional
Brad Gilbert is an amazing coach. He has good strategies and varieties which led to the rise of many of his desciples (Roddick, Murray, Agassi). He used many of those strategies himself, "winning ugly" and rising to #4 on the ranking.
Nowadays, Andy Roddick has struggled and was widely criticized for his one-dimensional game.
Brad gilbert didn't have any major weapons (no amazing fh, no amazing bh, no incredible footspeed) but he was able to keep the ball in play by hitting it high and deep and and stopped great players from hitting winners.
I was thinking: if Gilbert w/o weapons could do so well, why can't roddick w/great serve+fh? i mean roddick is fairly adept at keeping the ball in play, so how does fed hit so many winners against him?
Does anyone know what roddick should do? Gilbert was obviously onto something, as roddick became world #1 under him.
Sorry this is kinda vague, i couldn't phrase it better.
Nowadays, Andy Roddick has struggled and was widely criticized for his one-dimensional game.
Brad gilbert didn't have any major weapons (no amazing fh, no amazing bh, no incredible footspeed) but he was able to keep the ball in play by hitting it high and deep and and stopped great players from hitting winners.
I was thinking: if Gilbert w/o weapons could do so well, why can't roddick w/great serve+fh? i mean roddick is fairly adept at keeping the ball in play, so how does fed hit so many winners against him?
Does anyone know what roddick should do? Gilbert was obviously onto something, as roddick became world #1 under him.
Sorry this is kinda vague, i couldn't phrase it better.