MERCY!!! *NSFW* - USTA 5.0 Men's Singles 

Am I the only one who loves the sound of that forehand?

few things: 1. that court/club was beautiful, such a peaceful place to play; 2. too many short shots falling in midcourt for him to attack, but I get that's easier said than done when you're on the defensive right away; 3. can you start getting the racket, string pattern, tension, and strings for each opponent? For us tennis nerds it's always cool hearing others set ups.

His playstyle definitely fun to watch. Always a good experience to play with different people, glad you recorded it.

but facts this kids forehand is unbelievable

This is the only gameplay I’ve seen so far on RU-vid that their gameplay accurately matches their ranking. Great video!

If he is playing 5.0 I bet he doesn't lose hardly any matches! EXTREMELY solid player! Thanks for posting this match Andrew!

Footwork and timing on the rise forehand is insane from black shirt. When the ball is sitting he's gonna make it hurt.

I've been watching this video at least once every single day since it came out. Black shirt's forehand is freaking insane! I'm learning a lot just by watching him swing the racquet. Not that your forehand is bad or anything. In fact, I've been imitating your forehand since last year because it feels so nice and consistent when rallying with someone, but when it comes to someone who can hit winners frequently, I get destroyed. Now that I've been playing for a quite a while now, I feel that I'm ready to start accelerating the speed of my forehand and also flick my wrist similar to Black shirt. Anyways, I hope that you continue to improve on your game so that we can see more interesting matches like this one! Good luck!

Not fair having Stan Wawrinka playing 5.0 league

He was a very strong 5.0 player. Great consistency, power and he had a lot of work on the ball from all the spin he generated. Brave of you to post the video.

Just interesting to see you can say "he mopped the floor with my soul" in English too. Because in Chinese, there is an almost exactly same sentence that expresses exactly same meaning:))

He loved playing you! you have to have a weapon at that level, keeping the ball in is not going to cut it... the more you keep the ball in the more consistent "grooved" he gets and it's over!!

Black shirts' forehand is amazing, wish I had that

Props for posting the video. I also saw the live stream. The highlights here really show the kids tennis cred. He's immediately on the attack making it hard to get a breath.

Dont feel bad bro, he's a very strong player and definitely has his range dialed in.

Beautiful serve and forehand with the black t shirt guy - strikes it really really sweetly .Green t shirt guy is good too a nightmare to play I reckon if you don't have a monster forehand like this guy had - seemed to played in a really friendly and sporting manner too as well as being a competitive match - well done to both lads good video .

That forehand is a thing of beauty. Nice video!

Started watching for the big forehand, stayed for the 1HBH. Good stuff as always Andrew. Cheers.

After watching this a second time over, this makes me realize that different styles of play work better on different people. While me or most of everyone here cannot beat Andrew and his amazing athleticism and defense, some of us can hit a harder shot with pace or just a super flat shot. This guy has shown that he can tee off on any floater or ball slow enough if he's given enough time. If he played someone that was less athletic than Andrew, but played someone who could hit faster pace shots, he might not have had the opportunity to hit that many devastating forehands and you'd start seeing errors. But who really knows. For all we know that guy can prolly tee off on anything you give him.

When the pusher meets a consistent aggressor.

Thanks for another great video, Andrew. I'm a huge fan. Keep playing and keep posting, brother.

First a top recruit to a top D1 program is not 5.0 - minimum 5.5 so don’t feel bad about the loss but now you know what next level looks like 👍🏼💪🏼

I've watched this at least 30 times. I just love that forehand. It's perfect.

Andrew, good video but watch it again yourself and see what Ryan does: 1. Recovers to left of centre to favour his forehand (per comment below : why Ryan hits so few backhands). 2. Try and play closer to the baseline. (aka when you are serving you are naturally more in the court). 3. Walk in and split step as he serves. Currently you stand flat footed. There is nothing wrong with your shots / speed / stamina / control etc. Just where you position/ play. A coach said to me once ' Remember a game of tennis is really a game of forcings back - you want to push the other player back behind the baseline so you can control the point and come to the net for a volley.' I only say this because we all want your soul to be revived! :-)

He hit so few BHs. I think in order to fix that you need to hit more to his FH. Wide to his FH to open up some space on the BH.

That forehand is unbelievable. I've been replaying it a bunch (real-time and slow-mo) just to study the mechanics, trying to improve my game a little at a time lol.

That one-handed backhand is gorgeous!

I play a guy with the same wicked forehand as Ryan. You MUST hit wide to his forehand to open up the court to get to his backhand. The pattern is: wide to forehand, wide to backhand, wide to backhand.

Even better in slow motion. You can really see how perfect Ryan's form is on the serve, forehand, and run-around footwork.

Dang, I'd say Ryan is closer to a 5.5, no? Crazy that's he's just a teen. Fun hitting, fun to watch, thanks for posting!

what’s it like to play tennis in a damn forest lol

Man the control is so amazing and so accurate too.

Thank you for posting. - Steve, Age 57

Thanks for the video. Ryan has an outstanding forehand and knows how to move around his backhand well. I've watched some of your other videos and respect your game (especially some of your more recent doubles videos). Your form isn't very pretty, but you move very well and you seem to miss very little and are accurate with all your shots. You have deceptively good power with margin on your forehand. You also compete really well. Ryan has a very nice game. Yes, his backhand doesn't appear nearly as strong as his forehand, but he was crushing inside out forehands from the backhand alley and really controlling the court. It can be difficult to make someone hit a backhand when they are able to hurt you from anywhere on the court with their big weapon. Again, thanks for the video.

The opponent has pro like forehand. He is really good!

3 forays into the net. 3 positive points. Andrew, very nice job.

4 years later ... still BRUTAL

Good to see. I knew he was trained for college with those strokes I've seen up close training and at pro tournaments.

University of Virginia student here. Can’t wait to see him play against my school!

I just love that there are still one-handed backhands, and that it's not a lost art at the amateur level.

This brings back nightmares from ages ago of playing against a 5 when I was a 4 (as a teen), or playing a 5.5 when I was 4.5-5 in college. You're used to having the best of it in most matches, so when you're out there against someone who combines being way too crisp, consistent, and pinpoint for you to handle (and there's nothing you can do), it's not easy to take. Andrew, I feel your pain

Ryan is a real 5.0 with an excellent technique. The only player in all of the usta videos who is worthwhile watching.

I played Ryan four times throughout my high school career and I only got 2 games total on him. He had me covering so much court and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. I've never played anybody like him before.

Ryan, the guy in black?, is really just attacking your short balls. Several of his backhands he is just chipping and slicing, waiting for you to to hit a short ball or weaker ball to his forehand. Your best strategy here is to move him with shorter angles out to his backhand, throw junk at him so he can't rip forehands, and wait for your opportunity to attack. Nonetheless, super high quality video footage, fun to watch, and super nice that you got to record it and let us comment/feedback. You got him next time!

There's levels to this game. Crazy. This kid was a 4 star recruit but not top 100 in the recruiting class for his graduating year. And look how good he is. He probably got beat by the same score by top 50 players in juniors, and college is a whole new ball game all together. Seems like a good dude. Already better than I ever was in college, though.

Good attitude guys, enjoyed watching a bit I too was 5.0, now partially paralyzed(crap it can happen) but in the day had a hitting partner that used to sometimes mercilessly crack a beating on me - I learned a lot from that guy and we still crack jokes twenty years later. I used to tell him if he won: well, I could just kick your a the old fashioned way and save all the time and equipment. ha, miss it, keep hitting em' up!

That racket speed on the forehand. Damn.

Nice to play tennis when where you're gifted . . . healthy . . . rested . . . and not worried about making a living at it.

IRacer, nothing to be ashamed of. This guy is super nice, but he has tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars behind his game, and has hit over a million tennis balls in his life. He’s probably been playing since the age of three or four. Tennis was undoubtedly a huge part of his upbringing. That’s like me taking up the drums in my thirties and going up against Danny Carey. Kudos to both of you.

It's interesting to watch a 5.0 match after watching a 4.5 match. The difference is the fire in the pace of the balls. Helpfully it's s not THAT hard to learn how to have a massive forehand. Probably one of the easier things to learn. Being good at the net ... and being good on second serves ... is probably harder. Great match. Well filmed.

That black shirt guy is hard to judge. You can tell that every single ball hit to him is WAY slower than he's used to. HE can setup and just swing for everything. Green shirt needs to take the ball on the rise, take away time, hit out of his strike zone, DO SOMETHING. This was a clinic.

The Ryan kid definitely has a good forehand and the backhand looked technically efficient too. The video tape was spliced, we didn't see the whole match so there might have been more shots aimed in that direction. A lot of the 5.0 players do not look like they are doing much until you get out there with them. The average neighborhood player will come up very short. I played a 5.0 player who was a former dude friend of my daughter when I went out to see her in the Midwest around the mid 2000s. I was around a high 3.5 low 4.0 and in my early fifties. He was 29. I had him three- love before he could blink. He snapped out of his induced stupor and with the local juco team he was supposed to play for watching out of the corner of their eyes, he proceeded to decapitate me 3-6, 0-6. I keep hearing people say the Ryan kid is a clay Court specialist and the Andrew guy on a hard court surface would destroy Ryan. Whoever said that may want to rethink it because if he's pounding forehands like that on clay, those same balls will be getting smoked even harder on a hard court. Speaking about the crap they call clay, it is not clay at all but ground up Stone and Brick which is basically gravel. This is exactly what it look and sound like and it is very irritating. This is what they mostly use in both of the tennis centers in my town here in northern Alabama. A lot of my old school friends play on it claiming this surface is prolonging their career(s). This old schooler don't play dat (masters lever age) and I will live and die on real asphalt AKA, hard court.

You’re just letting himm tee off on those forehands though man, you’ve got a great arch on your ball but if your not placing it just right against a player like him that ball is just gunna get smashed back at you! Also you’re hitting your balls really defensively and sometimes off the back foot, don’t be afraid to drive through them and play more aggressive! I think you could’ve easily beat him tbh! Maybe next time

I love hitting against someone who strikes the ball as clean as the one in the black shirt. It gives you the opportunity to have some really great points, as opposed to winning or losing because of unforced errors.

Seriously, after watching this video, I think Jack Broudy is the best tennis coach. Ryan's forehand just has the rhythm which Jack talks about in his video. That is the main difference between Ryan' s forehand and Andrew's forehand.

Perfect example of an ATP style forehand versus a WTA style forehand… notice how the ATP forehand (black shirt) has so much more weight, pace and spin.... he’s also able to deal with harder hit balls because of the short compact backswing.

3:43 guy runs around his BH like crazy

Love his play style 🤩

Ryan is not only very strong, he uses everything to generate power in his fh. What strikes me most is that he uses his hips a lot more than most, and he uses rotational as well as forward motion. His arm is stiff and his wrist doesn't move throughout the shot, giving him consistency. He whips the racquet head into the ball, striking instead of simply swinging through. His bh seems to me to be more about keeping the ball in play rather than going for winners, but he can obviously hit the ball with heavy topspin or pace if he wants to. Fed has a gorgeous bh, of course, but it depends a lot on perfect timing. Wawrinka has great timing, too, but he uses his body more than Fed and generates more speed. I compare Fed to a swordsman who can generate power and speed with form and Stan to a man with a club, using his entire body as a unit to blast the club into a hanging piece of meat. Ryan's bh reminds me more of Wawrinka than Fed.

Love the kids style of tennis. Aggressive attack is what its all about. He is probably gonna want to improve that backhand considerably though but good luck to him on the next level. :)

Lollipops + 5.0= Gameover

Hey guys! Quick question: Is this surface similar to red dirt? I don´t know if I get that sensation from the videos and its not that serius; But it seems to be very slippery and slide all over the place. Im from Argentina and here we play mostly in red dirt. Is it similar??

Dude in the black shirt has an ATP level forehand He goes full beast mode when the ball is left in the middle of the court Nasty

You got one more game than I would have!

Great match! Ryan’s forehand and serve is amazing!

Hi from s. Korea. Do you know black shirt man's racket information(weight and balance) and string?

That guy could beat kohlschreiber

The kid is still growing. Should have a bright future!

Hi Andrew. Quick technical question: When recording with your Sony Camcorder (which is a lot heavier than a GoPro), what do you use to clamp it to the back fence? Thanks.

Man that guy was a monster. You did great to hang in there with him!!! WPWP. Your definately fast, but you'll have to go for more risk against someone like that. Even if you hit it out going for big shots, its worth it, b/c he will take the point anyway and grind you otherwise.

MONSTER forehand!

Hey Andrew, When did you stop sliding you're right foot forward into the pinpoint position on your serve? I remember you doing that when you were working on it in 2017 but this is the first time I have noticed you stopped.

I'm not a tennis expert by any stretch, but my advice when playing juggernauts like this guy, would be to take the Dustin Brown approach. When he played Rafa at Wimbelodon, he went for winners and that's it. He REFUSED to get into baseline rallies with Rafa, because he knew he would get his ass kicked. If you're having a good day and going for constant winners works, then you have a real chance to beat someone better than you. If not...well then you were going to get your ass kicked anyway.

Black shirt have a good service, but the forehand, my God Is so relaxing to watch😱

looks like the guy Ryan is using a cv wilson blade 104 (probably SW autograph) ...the racket head is huge and the thwack sound it makes...

that guy in blue wants to go for a winner on every shot, sometimes prematurely so, good game, thanks for taking time to share :-)

Good stuff men, an enjoyable watch in lovely' peaceful surroundings.

You won all the points with the low camera positioning (3:50), perhaps you should have stayed with that angle. 🤔 But seriously, fun to watch.

Fun to watch ... just be glad you did not play him on a HARD court ... that would have been brutal LOL. Nice job, keep it up!

Great video. Just curious though: why did you play to his forehand so often? Or is it just for the highlights?

Dude is HURTING the TENNIS BALL! The sound of the impact is wicked!

I think you need to start using the wrist on your groundstrokes(especially on forehand and serve). It looks like you have to much tense there and you lose access to spin and lots of power. Also I think you're focusing to much on the spin, start putting more weight on your shots. At your level you need to be both offensive and defensive, you can't build your game only on defense(also not only on offense). Hope my opinion will help you improve your game. (sorry if I was to petty or something...)

i know it can be hard but black shirt hit like no backhands

God that is a scary good opponent, props to hanging in there

Black shirt guy has an unbelievable forehand and service. Would certainly bagel me...

THAT FOREHAND FROM BLACK SHIRT GUY IS LETHAL. HE MOVES LIKES STAN THE MAN BUT OF COURSE LACKS THE BACKHAND . BUT THEN AGAIN ONLY GASQUET AND THIEM APPROACH THE LEVEL OF STAN'S SHBH.

I watched it live!

I really wanna see the D1 player play against the former ATP player that Andrew played against about a year ago.

Great slam. Playing to his strengths! So good.

The guy with the black shirt hits way harder than the other guy

I appreciate that Andrew wore his best tank top for this match. Add in the B-ball cap worn backwards, scruffy beard and black socks, he seems ready for a Hill Billy hoe-down! Update: So, wearing high, black socks are a thing now? Wow! New tends are not always a good thing. Wearing blacks socks with shorts used to be the domain of blue collar guys and old men.

That guy’s forehand packs a punch. 💪🏽

The forehand on the guy with the black shirt doe 😲

This Ryan kid is going places. Amazing.

Good play.

If the attacker hits deep to the corner, can the defender return the ball, and reposition at the center of the service boxes; would that be a strategy for an injured defender?

Holy crap hit it to his backhand!!! This is so hard to watch 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

Ryan = young Stan the Man

would love see how you would play on hard courts.

Ryan certainly has a big forehand, but wondering if his tendency to camp out on the backhand side of the court will be a vulnerability if he plays more experienced D1 level players. Stronger players might be able to exploit that opening on the forehand side of the court. But, having gone to Virginia Tech myself, I’m glad we have him on board.