4 secrets to develop your power | TENNIS MASTERCLASS 

Has anyone here tried these power-boosting techniques in their game? How did it go?

The 2 month wait for a new video was worth it. One of your best masterclasses in my opinion.

Thanks Patrick, I am 74 and have recently restarted playing with some friends who are younger and fitter. Much has changed since I played back in the 1960's, and your lessons are really helpful and at my age, it is not really logical to start paying for lessons to improve or re-learn. Thank you for offering this service (pun not intended) at no cost, I really appreciate it !

Before responding to your question, let me first say that I've observed you in players' boxes for over a decade. I came to your channel because I was impressed by a recent TikTok in which you diagnosed Kyrios with the "Syndrome of the Talented Player." I've watched almost everything on your channel; the masterclasses and shorts are fantastic! The production quality is world-class, and the tips are products of a lifetime of observing the thoughts and behaviors of players. You asked how these 4 power-boosting techniques improved my game. After learning about Tip #4, I shifted from an extreme semi-western forehand grip to a more moderate one, and, sure enough, I could extend my lever and generate more power. I have NEVER heard that rationale before. Thanks for sharing these unique conceptual connections with the world. I'll be telling all my intermediate to advanced tennis students about you.

Thanks Patrick, as a professional Tennis Trainer in Austria I fully agree with your aproache to generate power. Especially the usage of extrem grips was always disapointing for me. MY aproach is the natural swing / flow plus power from your feets to generate power on a recreational to advanced level. I am teachingg since 1987. Best Regards from Austria, Oliver

Of all of your videos about generating power, this one finally made it click for me! The explanation of a loose grip and the analogy of the tree branches are PERFECT. Thank you yet again, Maestro!

I love that RU-vid makes it possible to get this for free. This is amazing coaching. Thanks, Patrick!

Masterclass indeed! I love it, like always. The content on your youtube channel is 100% pure tennis. No ads, no loops at all!

Patrick Mouratoglou, I really enjoyed this video, so I hit the like button!

Great that you've included exercises we can use to learn these techniques. Super helpful. Thanks, coach.

Merci Patrick pour votre pacience à nous enseigner ce merveilleux sport. Je vis à Rio de Janeiro et je suis chanteur dans la nation brésilienne. J’ai eu un niveau 15/2 et je continu à aprendre avec vous! Comme c’est dommage de ne pas vous avoir connus avant ! 😊

👍 From Calgary Thanks for all the lessons Since I play Tennis with my left hand, at the end of the session or sometimes at the beginning I throw a ball with my Right hand which is my normal throwing hand against the wall and it allows for my rotation to have a much better balance and have noticed that improvement.

The loose grip is the toughest for me to master, getting rid of my "death-grip" is continual work in progress. Thanks for the great video.

Another gold mine video. Thx a lot Patrick

This really helps. Thank you Patrick👏👏👏👏

Super helpful video, whole masterclass series is just a phenomenal way to improve technique! big thanks!

Brilliant explanation, you´re an extraordinary coach, Thanks a lot Patrick !!

Unfortunately, I only started playing tennis when I was 37. Your videos help me so much to be able to play modern tennis. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us.🙏🙏

You are awesome. Can you please make a video on grips for kids who are just starting to learn tennis.

Excellent Patrick. Many thanks for all your tuition 👍

Couldn't thank you anymore for your selfishless sharing of the tennis knacks...🙏

c'est magnifique. always wanted to know how to take shots to the next level 👌

The best instruction on this topic I've ever seen on the internet. I'm guilty of all four points.

Precious tips! Thank you😊🙏🏼

I respect these rules every time I play..I started 3 years ago and I play almost every day(sometimes 2 or 3 times a day, I love tennis)..my balls are fast and my serve is near 200km /h..I'm 45 y.o. and I think I should have start much earlier 😞😞😞 Love this sport!!! ❤❤ Thank you so much for your advises, I follow everything you said!!!

Best free lesson on RU-vid. Much appreciated

C'est vraiment top! Je comprends exactement quelles sont mes erreurs. Au boulot ;-) Je ferais un feedback sur mes progrès. 53 ans, une reprise après 15 ans sans jouer, c'est le moment de reprendre avec de bonnes habitudes. Merci vraiment Patrick pour toute la qualité de ton travail dont je suis fan et de tes vidéos. Et j'espère réaliser un séjour dans ton Academy dans quelques temps.

Please keep producing great instructional videos like this!

Awesome video. Totaly makes sense.

Pretty good!!! 👏👏👏 Let’s increasing my power!!!! 💪

Thanks, great tips and explanations...🤝🎾👌🙋‍♂️🇫🇮

Great Patrick! This video is now in my the top list!

Really great pointers, Patrick. The grip instruction was very interesting. Going to try to remember all this! 👍

Thank you Patrick!! I always play better after I watch a few of your videos!

Great masteclass, many thanks.

Great instructions. Thanks Patrick!

That`s some great advice....thanks !

非常好的建議和練習。多謝教練。

Obrigado pelos seus ensinamentos online, pois moro no Brasil e não posso fazer umas aulas contigo rsrs. Eu sei que inconscientemente eu aperto muito a mão no cabo da raquete e quando me concentro para não fazer isso, sinto sim que minha bola ganha muito mais giro e peso. Infelizmente os professores que eu fiz aula por aqui, nos ensinaram a bater a bola quando ela está descendo (movimento B), mesmo eu sentindo mais confiança e controle quando eu batia ela na subida (A), acabei mudando minha batida por acreditar que eles estavam corretos e eu errado. Muito agradecido.

Thank you Patrick!!

Master Class indeed 😊

Please take a video about how to avoid tennis elbow. Thank you

Great drills for dealing with pushers & moonballers too.

Love it. Can you please do a video on drills that I can do with a tennis ball machine.

Great, i m gonna try it tomorrow morning !

Pure gold 👍

For many years people thought the power of tennis shots depends on muscle strength, so many athletes spent hours in the gym improving their maximums on bench press, squat and pull-up. Now we have finally understood that we do the speed to the ball thanks to our technique, coordination and other specific factors. I'm not saying training in the gym is not useful, but we have to know what our players need to improve their tennis first.

excellent! Thank you coach!

Thank you very much!

Thank you!

The tip on forward momentum is really a good one

Thanks, good tips !

Thanks for sharing great tips.

That was super Patrick! Thank you very much !!

GREAT VIDEO. THANK YOU ! SALUT.

Bravo!

thank you champion

Thanks for sharing this video coach Patrick❤🇵🇭

Always awesome and accurate content from PM

This is priceless!!!!

So good!

Nice! Agassi was a another example of the early phase A. Could you please make an analysis of power and technique of the incredible David Nalbandian? Probably the most powerful backhand ever.

Great explanation and teaching class 👍

merci bcp!

Very interesting !

It's amazing how how often in tennis coaching the exercises/drills are great, but develop something other than what is claimed, and would be explained in a first year biomechanics/physics university course. If you do enough drills there is a chance all aspects will stil be covered. "The Four elements of power"....well one out of 4 as a definitive is not too bad. Though the arm is not totally "relaxed", it simply has less restriction by the antagonists to the desired movement; it is easier to feel the relaxation of them than the torso, due to the effects of leverage in rotational forces. One way to relax those antagonists is to actively engage the desired muscles. Also the benefit of a longer arm is only one factor along with the ability to provide power to it in the time available; longer limbed players don't always hit faster than shorter players. There is also the need to measure or know where a player's strongest muscle contractions are to know where that power is being better delivered. for example: Don't mention the Kyrgios examples amongst the fastest ever hit FH. There is no benefit from more "bodyweight into the ball", and this is as clearly demonstrated throughout the examples as it is in every pro match. The magnet concept is correct, but because the improved positioning allows better confidence that torso contribution won't have to be decelerated through the arm in what is described as the tree concept. Does a branch whipping in the wind not hurt because the tree trunk does not continue into you when contact is made? Perhaps most recreational players, like the ones commenting that these are great, simply don't like to understand the scientific concepts which could explain all these even more directly; which is lucky because it seems most coaches don't understand how to structure coaching to use drills that employ them for the simplest progression.

This was soo good!

Weight shift and loose grip have been responsible for my most recent gains in power. The other has been a change in stringing that added more spin without losing power. This helped by making sure the added power still resulted in balls that didn’t go long. I want to learn the Magnetic move next to get better positioning and power.

Great video, q: Why do I have the feeling that on powerful returns back from opponent I will drop the racket? Or if not, my wrist will hurt a bit, any idea how to fix it?

Thank u My coah !

I guess this video is all time Legend Tx coach

Winner!

One more advantage of magnet move, it is easier to conduct top spin if you hit ball in phase A

The weight dispatch I find one of the hardest thing to implement in my game. Maybe Patrick could have elaborated a bit more on how exactly you get your hips and core involved in your swing. Great tips nonetheless!

Really enjoyed your video, I have increased power just by extending my arm. I feel very lucky to have this high level knowledge shared from a top coach for free. You are a credit to the sport!

@Coachh PATRICK i think we need help with a serve coaching tutorial for players under 5 feet like Schwartzman basically speaking of continental grip which one to use and the base to hold the racquet for example like a hammer or bend it like Rafael Nadal does with his racquet face at 80 degrees, think such a video would be useful as i tried to analyze how short and tall people serve like Zverev, Schwartzman and Fogini on the short people section.

Wow so much info to unpack! This is gonna take me at least 10 watches or more! 👍💯⭐🏆

Hi Patrick, you are probably won't read this message but I had a problem with my last match. Let me explain I played second round of a national tournament against the first seed and my fellow trainings partner who I have beaten most of the encounters we had at practice but never really came close in a match. At the beginning of the match I was full of energy fighting for every point he started to lead 3-1 with 1 break advantage. I broke back 3-2 won my serve 3-3 and broke again it was 4-3 here and I served, I was up 40-15 made two nervous mistakes but got the advantage Ad-40 and he hit a net which slowly rolled onto my side and that frustrated me. As much as I tried to keep calm I couldn't. I managed to lose the first set 6-4. He went to the bathroom and I saw it as an opportunity to calm down. He came back but I got so calm that I lost that fire inside of me made bad errors and thought to myself how couldn't I take the opportunity at 4-3 I tried to refocus but nothing was working. I lost the match 6-4 6-2 and I was disappointed. What should I do to regain that fire that passion inside me?

Now I'm wondering why some top players use extreme grip or full western (Nadal, Djoko, Sock, and maybe Alcaraz, Ruud, etc.) !

とても分かりやすい、実践的な説明です。これからも質の高い動画を期待してやみません。

Patrick, how do you explain that nr.1 in the world has his arm bent in the elbow and obviosly he doesn't produce the same power as he would produce if his arm was completely straight on the forehand. Talking about Djokovic ofc

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When I have the right mental state I do the technique automatically, how can we reach that good mental state whenever it's needed and have full focus?

This is a common misconception with regard to "lever-arm". With a longer arm it is the ball that gains the leverage, not the arm where the shoulder is the pivot point. Diagram it out and you will see it. The whip effect you refer to in #3 is a means of transferring momentum to the racket head thus circumventing the ball's leverage advantage. Longer arms have the advantage in that they facilitate a longer whipping motion resulting in a longer acceleration period and ultimately a higher racket head speed. Likewise, an individual's swing that results is a fully, or nearly fully extending swing arm accomplishes the same whip advantage as a "longer" arm. That really should be the subject of your point #4.

So it’s all about the timing when hitting the ball on the rise

Tsitsipas should hire you to fix his backhand.

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The first thing I would like to draw your attention to is that there is no feedback from Patrick in the comments!🤷‍♂ Secondly, I would like to ask Patrick: how would he comment on the photographs of Nadal with rewound, erased fingers?☝

you forgot to name the best forhand playes, that is Djokovic

just losen the tension on the string and the ball will speed out even with just a half of a swing

The heavy dependence of power on physical strength and size is obvious for everyone to see in the likes of Sabalenka and the Williams sisters. Yes there are other things that matter significantly, but without nature's help, there is a hard ceiling no one can possibly beat.

Ignore 1,2 and 4. Fastest forehand ever hit was very close to body. It's all wrist.

Why is Rune playing so many drop shots? Its like he's hoping for a cheap point or got himself stuck in a training groove. He is a great player but he needs to use his tools intelligently. The drop shot is most effective when the opponent is not expecting it. Putting that aside, the FO2024 4th round experience will build up his confidence and stamina working the big stage. Congratulations.

Really like all your videos. But the background sound isn’t great in this one 🙏🏻. Prefer without it

A tree is a terrible analogy - nothing beneath the branches moves, it's roots and trunk are heavy and immobile. A better example would be a duck, or a dancer (e.g. river dance), or a skier. For a duck the legs are thrashing away under the water but the body above is serene. That's what we want - not solid, heavy, immobile but a perfectly balanced core, under it the legs and hips are working hard but the platform above is completely relaxed and stable allowing us to swing with power and accuracy. The obvious example is Sinner (a professional skier), he clearly came to tennis understanding the feeling, and if you watch he always stays low, his legs are very active but his core is completely stable above allowing him to swing hard and consistently hit his spots.

Send the asteroid!

maybe the video should start with the lever arm🤣🤣🤣much easier

Best secret if you don't want to be banned from tennis, Ban Patrick from coaching ever again

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