NoBadMojo said:you really cant turn tennis players into the type of players they dont have the capacity to be very well, and i think gilbert coached roddick correctly from what i saw..come out serving huge and rip forehand winners. kamakazee ball really doesnt work well to serve/volley or just volley...volleying is a very precise skill in which you need lots of ball feel and control...not just barging forward aimlessly..i do question him even trying to volley other than the occassional surprise tactic. the only game rodick will ever have is the power game...to me, he is the newer generation of the trained one dimensional tennis player aided by equipment, rather than the multi faceted instinctive tennis player. i can see that the two huge egos could have caused this relationship to crash and burn. so roddick had a nice run under the tuteledge of gilbert..time to move on if it no longer works..let's see how he does next year....i can see him slipping..he barely hung onto the #2 spot this year. my .o2
NoBadMojo said:roddick has been playin since he was very young and if he doesnt have the skillset by now, i dont think he's gonna ever have it and no coach in the world is going to make much of a difference
mrwise said:12.13.2004 - "Recently, Andy Roddick informed me that he has decided to continue his career without my services. I have enjoyed all of my time with Andy. He has been a great student of the game during the time that we worked together and I am very proud of the results that were achieved. While I believe that there is still a great deal of work to be done, Andy clearly does not feel that way. I wish Andy all of the best and will be rooting for him." - Brad Gilbert
This is from the Official Brad Gilbert Website.
Shut your hole, you wanna be 60k demanding fake coach.drakulie said:Rickson wrote:
Federer passes Roddick much more than he gets volleyed by him on his backhand side.
Your an idiot. Go and look at any match Roddick has played Federer. About 6 to 7 out of 10 times Roddcik hits a first serve to Federers backhand-Federer blocks it back. He does not hit passing shots from his backhand against Roddicks first serve, more than he simply blocks it back.
Your attention to detail is horrible.
I know @wright is a moron.@wright said:I agree that Rickson is an idiot, but I have to believe that if Roddick started hitting volley winners off of those floating backhand returns, Federer would start rolling them easily to Roddick's feet, making for an extremely tough volley. Federer can more consistently hit any kind of shot than Roddick can volleying.
jun said:I think players can keep improving whether it's their net game, return game, or whatever.
Of course, weakness is never going turn into strength, but players can still improve it and add it to their game.
Rafter's baseline game improved a lot throughout his career. He mentioned that while he was preparing for Davis Cup against Spain on clay, he spent 3~4 hrs working on his baseline game with the captains. The same goes with Pete's baseline game, Tim Gully worked hard on his return game, and baseline game. As a result, Pete Sampras had pretty solid baseline game in mid 1990s, and his improved return brought him Wimbledon titles.
Even Martin N said that she learned to hit topspin backhand effectively after her career was over.
Sometimes player don't seem to get better at certain things because they are reluctuant to make changes whether it's technical or strategical or mental. I think as long as Roddick puts in hours on practice court and during match (which I think we witnessed during masters-cup), he will get better at the net.
drakulie said:Rickson wrote:
Federer passes Roddick much more than he gets volleyed by him on his backhand side.
Your an idiot. Go and look at any match Roddick has played Federer. About 6 to 7 out of 10 times Roddcik hits a first serve to Federers backhand-Federer blocks it back. He does not hit passing shots from his backhand against Roddicks first serve, more than he simply blocks it back.
Your attention to detail is horrible.
drakulie said:Commentators have even said the same thing. Roddick should go after those floaters and just put them away from the net, rather than letting them bounce.
Noelle said:VamosRafa, point taken. I stand corrected and chastised.![]()
NoBadMojo said:aye rabbit...nobody w. a power game should play it 20' behind the baseline..he needs to move way in..surely they know all this, and if roddick could do it, he would have done it by now..i mean, doesnt take a genuis to see this stuff. it's not like we humble tw posters see things that gilbert or whoever cant see..the reality is that roddick does the best he has with what he has to work with..he's a trained tennis player not a natural instinctive one, and he doesnt have the skillset of many of the other pros which he makes up for w. desire and mental toughness and a huge serve and waning huge forehandhe's an anomoly..those come along ever so often where whatever combo of things he's been able to combine happened to hit the jackpot for him. the first serve/forehand player to ever make number1 that i can think of.
I'm a mod on 2 mixed martial arts forums, but tennis is a great game and is my second love after the fighting arts.@wright said:Rickson, you may want to head to the ultimate fighting (or whatever Rickson Gracie does) forum if you want people to think you are knowledgeable...
bertrevert said:Gilbert added some mental-toughness to R's game (think Roddick vs. El Ayanoui at the Oz Open)
AndrewD said:It might be a slightly left of centre idea but, now that Todd Martin has retired, I think Roddick could do a lot worse than enlist his help.