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Following your excellent lesson explanation I hit slice serves today that were correct according to our club pro. I am so excited! All thanks to you Ryan!! 💐
Great instruction, I especially like the slow motion / freezes so we can concentrate on how to get from one checkpoint to another. Question: if this all works for serving into the ad court, what about the deuce court? In other words, at what point are we doing anything to aim? Is it in the setup, the turn, the throw motion, or something else?
Only if you're a COMPLETE amatuer. My opponent tried this in a match this week and I could just volley it and he cant respond. If he hit straight down the court it would be hard to respond
Copying pros is often a surprisingly bad strategy for amateur players. Often there are things that pros invest a lot of time and money into that are outside the scope of normal tennis players. For example on the serve a lot of pros have a toss which is more difficult to do but harder for the opponent to read. If you copy this type of stuff as an amateur player, you may see inconsistent results and years of struggle with your game because shockingly you are not a pro, you're not serving hundreds of balls per week. So if you're going to try to copy pros, make sure you understand the level of investment and determination its going to take to get throughput of your strokes. Yes you can have a massive serve, but its going to be a long hard road getting there doing it that way.
I’m not sure how you can talk about technique without referring to the ball and what the intention of the shot is? Were they both first serves? Within the warmup or during a match? It looks like Emma is serving more into the body, maybe with some slice? Maria seems to be serving flatter down the T? Surely this would affect some of the technique such as amount of pronation/angle of the racket? Interesting idea to time between releasing the ball and contact.
Been trying this, and it does take some practice but it helped me get like a second type of slice, mine always used to be a kind of backspin slice where the ball lost speed, this makes a faster version so good to have variety.
Great tips. One question, by staying sideways and applying sidespin, don't you miss out on power that trying to rotate forwards and hitting flat will give.
Coach! If you can answer me what do I do when I am standing on the correct position and I recieve a cross court but it is more directly to me, I know Ill have to use more footwork but where do I go in that situation because it is very hard to hit a cross court when they are hitting directly to you. This is just my opinion you are the expert I am open to every advice :)
Correct. There’s no such thing as a flat serve. All serves have spin. When you think of your “flat” serve the correct way you’ll be much more consistent.
@@2MinuteTennis Amazing video and shared thoughts btw 💯, that helped me a lot! Plus, from your POV, there is no wrist lag action in the serve, right? This is another recent thing I've recently learned while studying about serve
Yep. Thanks the exact drill that I use to fix this issue with my students. If you hit out of the air, you have to use the contact to time the shot. This will teach you to ignore the bounce. Great job!
Heel pad of her hand is on bevel 6. If you’re teaching eastern BH grip as index knuckle and heel pad on the same bevel or close, that’s an extremely weak grip and the wrong angle. Racquet won’t be supported or stable . It’s not the same angle as a FH grip. The racquet should be almost perpendicular to the forearm, almost like holding a bicycle handle
Hi Coach Ryan, I started hitting my two hander better just from watching your videos and practicing what you are teaching, and I added one thing that you didn’t mention, I hit the ball with my eyes open now, I was hitting with both eyes closed because I couldn’t bare to watch the ball land so short on the court. Hahe just joking about the eyes Coach, thank you for teaching us better ways to play tennis my friend!
Same technique as Casper Ruud. He actually as the best FH on tour ! He bend way more his knee tho, and have a better rotation with the hips and shoulder.
This is awesome. Great lesson. The only problem is... I play pickleball and not tennis. A lot of this helps and definitely applies but i would love some lessons from you on pickleball? Do you have any? Thanks.
Another thing I noticed was Aliassime's position when De Minaur was making contact. Felix is wayyyyyy out of position when you consider that De Minaur can hit a short crosscourt angle that crosses the sideline first and Felix would need to run well past the sideline to get to it. Also, the easier/safer shot is cross court as the net is lower and the court is longer. So by positioning himself properly (3-4 feet or so to his forehand side), Felix would almost be daring De Minaur to go up the line where the court is shorter and the net is higher. Granted, Felix looked like he was conceding the point.
