"How To Deal With Power In Your Tennis Matches"!!

[thomas daniels]

Okay, so today I want to talk about a very important topic that is holding many tennis players back.

Here is the thing that you have to keep in mind.

As you move up in the rankings.

You will have to deal with better players and these players will be sending you a lot of power and if you can't handle that power, you won't be winning that many matches!!

Listen.

This is by far... the one thing that holds many players back from breaking through and moving up in the rankings.

Well, lucky for YOU... because I have 3 tips that can help you solve this problem.

1) Relax your body more.

There is no need to panic in matches.

Never get tense, because it will only affect your timing, rhythm and flow for you swing.

It will negate your ability to feel your shots.

And never forget that, the more relax you are, the more power and feel you can create on your shots!!

2) Use a compact swing.

I teach my players how to use the table tennis swing.

This is were you keep your non-racket hand on the throat and you use the same swing that you would use if you were playing table tennis.

There is no take back and you use the pace of the ball and you redirect it with the way that you have your racket face angled at on impact.

Note-

(This is the most important tip in this post, that you must focus on when dealing with power.)

So, learn how to master the table tennis swing in practice, so you can do it in your tennis matches!!!

3) Leverage the ground force.

"This is when you corkscrew your body with your lower legs and you use the ground force to generate more natural power when doing it."

Start paying close attention to how the pros do this in matches.

For example.

Osaka Naomi is great at doing this... and if you study her very closely, you will discover how she is doing it eventually.

Do that and then model after how she is doing it.

Start in practice and stick with it, until you master doing it.

YES.

Those 3 tips RIGHT THERE , can help you start dealing with power better in your matches in months!!

Again.

"If you want to move up in the rankings and start beating the top players in your league".

You are going to have to learn how to deal with power.

Now, get to work on this my friend...

 

[S&V-not_dead_yet]

I can think of only two matches in the last several years that I lost due to opponent power. In the rest of the losses, it was due to inconsistency, impatience, poor shot selection, and sub-par execution. And, of course, my opponent putting me in uncomfortable situations that encouraged my errors.

 

[a12345]

Relaxation is for sure key in tennis.

Being relaxed and loose whilst at the same time putting in 100% effort and playing at your limit is probably the holy grail for all sports athletes.

A good example is 100m sprinting, they generate immense power whilst at the same time being super relaxed and its hard to do.

 

[LeeD]

Best counter for overwhelming power is to get the ball back 3 times.
If he can hit 3 strong shots against your weak, slow, high replies, he's just better than you.

 

[socallefty]

Have more margin over the net and try to keep the ball deep at all costs. Hopefully, this causes some errors. Power hitters feed off short balls that they force with their rally ball pace. Also, I might serve bigger to hold serve more easily and hope for just one break or a tiebreak to win the set.

 

[Mr.Lob]

I'll forehand/ backhand slice a really hard hit ball. Keeps me in the points, cuts down on the errors. And like LeeD wrote, usually if I get the ball back 2-3 times I'm going to win the point.

 

[Dartagnan64]

My rule with power is "Keep it away from the wheelhouse".

At mid levels of rec tennis, power players generally are limited in some way or they wouldn't be still stuck in the mid levels of rec tennis. So your job is to get them to hit more errors than winners while you limit your mistakes.

So find the ball they like and never give it to them again. Try to find the ball they hate and feed it to them.

In the extreme scenario they aren't really going to even give you a chance since they will tee off on everything and totally take you out of the equation. Then the only opportunity you have to influence them is with your serve and it becomes a location game.

 

[Slicehand]

I find compact swings very necessary when playing in fast surfaces, i train in a slow one and i like a full and big swing because i can produce a lot of power, but when the surface gets faster i have a very hard time adapting if the opponent has decent pace and hits low, normally i lose 4 games or more till i start to adapt

 

[InSydeOut]

I find compact swings very necessary when playing in fast surfaces, i train in a slow one and i like a full and big swing because i can produce a lot of power, but when the surface gets faster i have a very hard time adapting if the opponent has decent pace and hits low, normally i lose 4 games or more till i start to adapt

How do you adapt to fast and low? I mean I can get the ball back in play but usually I get into these fast and low rallies and there is little margin for error. It is just uncomfortable. The guy I practice with is a much better than me so he proceeds to blast me off the court.

 

[sureshs]

2) Use a compact swing.

I teach my players how to use the table tennis swing.

This is were you keep your non-racket hand on the throat and you use the same swing that you would use if you were playing table tennis.

There is no take back and you use the pace of the ball and you redirect it with the way that you have your racket face angled at on impact.

Note-

(This is the most important tip in this post, that you must focus on when dealing with power.)

So, learn how to master the table tennis swing in practice, so you can do it in your tennis matches!!!

Yeah just like this "compact" top spin of Ma Long with no take back:

How do you come up with your theories? What are your NTRP and USTTA ratings? I am curious about your tennis and table tennis levels.

There used to be another coach here who used to claim the same about table tennis and its relationship to tennis.

You seem to be taking some small things here and there and passing them off as great theories after over-generalizing them.

 

[Slicehand]

How do you adapt to fast and low? I mean I can get the ball back in play but usually I get into these fast and low rallies and there is little margin for error. It is just uncomfortable. The guy I practice with is a much better than me so he proceeds to blast me off the court.

I think you really have to bend and try to play with bigger margin over the net, also try to play as deep as posible, if you try to be as agressive as in slow and you dont have time, ball might sail long or dont cross the net, because you dont have time to close the stroke as much, i like to play with top spin, so thats the case for me, but also, in this kind of surfaces an aproach shot should be easier, so if you are not too bad at the net, it could be good to go there more often, take time from your opponent also, normally when things get fast and erratic, playing safe and deep is a good option

 

[Slicehand]

Yeah just like this "compact" top spin of Ma Long with no take back:

How do you come up with your theories? What are your NTRP and USTTA ratings? I am curious about your tennis and table tennis levels.

There used to be another coach here who used to claim the same about table tennis and its relationship to tennis.

You seem to be taking some small things here and there and passing them off as great theories after over-generalizing them.

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