You need a hipper picture on your profile or are you trying to come across as a baby-faced killer?
I don’t think it is a problem for WTA players as they practice against men all the time. We constantly have WTA players practice at our club against D1 college men or their coaches and I can tell you that they have zero problems with any matchups based on spin. We have a coach in his late-twenties (played ATP futures 7-8 years ago and college tennis) with a UTR in the mid-high 11s who plays often with WTA players with UTR in the 12s and he hangs with them, but always loses sets - he has heavy topspin, slice, big serve etc. and the WTA players hit flatter, but have no problems with his shots. The WTA players hit/serve very deep and precisely - they also move very well. Let’s not perpetuate stereotypes that matchups make up for differences of 1 or 2 in UTR or 0.5 in NTRP if the computer rating is based on a lot of recent high-level matches - they don’t.
I don't think WTA players will have difficulty, but some lower level d1 might.
This is exactly right. As someone who uses a lot of defensive lobs, I find that playing against 4.5 guys with weak overheads gives me bad defensive habits that don’t translate well when I play against better players who punish anything they have time to get underneath.
He wins most of his matches at 4.5, so why not?
I think the style matchup would favor max. Max is at his best when you give him time to create his own offense, so MEP’s defensive style would feed right into Max’s strength.He wins most of his matches at 4.5, so why not?
Also he never lost badly to anyone. I want to see it happening, I want to see if someone can make him not get to 99% of balls.
Can maxtennis make all this happen? I have doubts!
I understand Max is more likely to punish MEP’s no energy balls but it will still be very interesting to see it happening.
We’ve already tested Max against someone who plays mostly no-energy fh slices:
tt.tennis-warehouse.com
I’ve deduced that more than 50% of posters must be better than mid-4.5. Some of them must be even better - for instance, one guy even posted today that Djokovic’s FH would be better if he changed his grip.I love how more than 50% of poasters in this forum has a game plan to play GSG
I love how more than 50% of poasters in this forum have a game plan to play GSG
Apparently started at age 32 and now he’s 42.
Well nobody wants to be him... well except for traveljam
In all seriousness, most people get together to hit, maybe some organized practice, maybe play some points. GSG is not very fun to hit with, just challenging to play with. So not a lot of people want to be him because for a large proportion of tennis players proficiency at "the tennis" is still more important than winning matches.
Speak for yourself.
If you actually had a choice... the fact is, few people will win if they try to play like MEP. It’s all about where you are and how you evolve/progress/degrade. There’s absolutely no reason to try to ditch full strokes after watching MEP matches. With this recent match, the best part for John was when he actually went for bigger shots - he won 6-1. Even Ben mentioned that in after-match commentary, when opponent just started hitting winners past him every second shot.
Speak for yourself.
I love how more than 50% of poasters in this forum have a game plan to play GSG
If you actually had a choice... the fact is, few people will win if they try to play like MEP. It’s all about where you are and how you evolve/progress/degrade. There’s absolutely no reason to try to ditch full strokes after watching MEP matches. With this recent match, the best part for John was when he actually went for bigger shots - he won 6-1. Even Ben mentioned that in after-match commentary, when opponent just started hitting winners past him every second shot.
Most errors by John where made either when bunting/rolling balls back and forth - finally, after number of shots; or positioning himself too far from the net and trying to volley from below the net. Some forced errors as well after being put in bad position by well-placed shots by MEP. Yet more glorious victory going through all that
Seriously? I've been mostly skimming this thread and missed that...
, but it looks like it was implied by some. I should've phrased my post "To those who THINK GSG would beat Max..."
I’m not sure why you try to pull me into this. It’s obviously easy for me to be poasting from far away, however I humbly stayed within analyzing what guys actually did in a match to what results, not making up things. Would you suggest me to look up for flights to Adelaide if I commented Serena-Naomi match? Or immediately get on court after discussing 3.0 ladies clash?
Outlier styles tend to rise to higher heights than might be expected.
You see? The guy is way wiser than his supporters!
You see? The guy is way wiser than his supporters!
I still believe this is a very interesting match up and worth arranging. Max is an ‘ordinary’ 5.0 but we all know that MEP is an extraordinary 4.5!
I think Gregory Diamond vs GSG match would break the Internet.
My proxy for how I'd do will be when Ian from Essential Tennis plays him since I think Ian and I have similar, net-centric styles. However, if I were to play MEP...
It will not be interesting.
