This may be menial and something I should have learned by now but hey better late then never. I have recently become aware of why my game is so inconsistent and I feel like I have been bashing myself for no reason. I have mostly played outdoors for a few years, during spring and summer and have only joined a tennis club last fall in order to play a USTA league. Since then, my game has been spiraling downwards and I have been mightily struggling. The past couple of weeks with spring weather in full force, I went outside and hit with my friends and I was surprised that within a couple of minutes my strokes were grooved back and I was hitting the ball deep with spin and my timing was perfect. I was getting the ball to bounce off the court and it was a great feeling!! However, close to sunset, temperatures dropped and I felt the court was losing its "bounce" and becoming more like an indoor court. I felt like my timing was off and I couldn't penetrate the court as much. It made me really think and I have come to realize the following:
- It takes me a really long time to adjust to an indoor court... if I ever adjust at all.
- I hate playing tennis in cold temperatures (below 55 degrees or so).
- The lack of lighting and the lack of bounce indoors (and outdoors at night?) seem to really mess me up
- I wear contacts and for some reason it bugs me more indoors and I feel like I can't see the ball as well
I feel like I shouldn't play indoors and unless I figure something out I don't know if I will ever play another USTA league at my club.
Has anyone struggled with these problems before? Any tips on how to read the court and adapt strokes to it? What do you guys do when you feel the conditions are changing?
I would appreciate any tip. Thanks.
- It takes me a really long time to adjust to an indoor court... if I ever adjust at all.
- I hate playing tennis in cold temperatures (below 55 degrees or so).
- The lack of lighting and the lack of bounce indoors (and outdoors at night?) seem to really mess me up
- I wear contacts and for some reason it bugs me more indoors and I feel like I can't see the ball as well
I feel like I shouldn't play indoors and unless I figure something out I don't know if I will ever play another USTA league at my club.
Has anyone struggled with these problems before? Any tips on how to read the court and adapt strokes to it? What do you guys do when you feel the conditions are changing?
I would appreciate any tip. Thanks.