When I see a guy trying to win a warm up I know the go to will be tactic 2. I feel most players don’t comprehend not missing in the net is a massive advantage and puts immense pressure on your opponent. The first few long rallies you win will become less often as opponent usually panics and redlines. 🎉
Love these videos! I saw the flat serve technique video you posted a few days ago and found it really helpful. Was wondering if you could do the same for the kick serve? I'm able to get the ball consistently in, but I can rarely get the ball to kick up or wide.
I have only one way, practice how to position yourself so you can hit a winner on any situation, serve +1, +2, +3, doesn't matter, opponent slices? try to hit a winner, and practice over and over again. At a high level, winner is a true winner, at low level they can't do it but at high level you have to do it to win. So yes, for low level, it is more about enjoying the game, and most people enjoy the game more by having more balls put in play. But at high level? the less you put the ball in play the better, because you want to cut the rally short by hitting a winner (or a winner wanna be that setup another winner)
@@MttSuddarth no, this is just my opinion. this is the same in any competitive sport, if you can't always find a way to get an edge over your opponent on every move, your opponent will just take advantage of that. That's why everyone says that Federer is doing something every shot, that is because he is trying to get a winner on every shot instead of waiting and hitting back to the center and hope his opponent will make a mistake. You can think however you want, I have no science to prove this is always correct but logically it makes sense to me.
Federer never tried to hit a winner off any shot. He poked and prodded until an opportunity to hit a winner arose. This is very different than hitting to the middle and hoping for an error. Also, federer is a once in a generation freak of nature; none of us are federer.
@@MttSuddarth Maybe to you that's your wording, but I realized that is not what Federer is doing. In his mindset, he is not thinking of poking and prodding. He is thinking how he can make the most out of every shot, and go for every single shot, that's why he aim on the lines a lot, and do a lot of dangerous shots that 99% of the players wouldn't. This is the same as bruce lee's saying that he does not fear someone who make 1000 punches, but he fear someone who make 1 punch 1000 times.99% of other ATP players on tour just can't compare, every shot that Federer makes is a lethal shot. And that is why he is so dangerous and insane. I'm simply learning from that spirit. And by tapping into that mindset, I realized that a lot of players simply checks out when they rally or in a match, and stops thinking on their shot so that's why they always hit the same way (e.g. back to the middle or CC) and get owned a lot.
