Why You Play Worse in Tennis Matches Compared to Practice 

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portuguese is the same too

@@HPontara1 Romanian too

It comes from French. English language "stole" more than 10 000 words from French.

@@miguelbarahona6636 Also the word "No"

@@_Greenflag_ they both originated from Greco-Roman languages. Nobody stole anything from anyone 😂

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Thank you James and keep grinding 🔥🎾

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I’m in the same boat as you, man. The neighborhood where I live in Miami has a single, private court. At the height of the pandemic and lockdown, my girlfriend and I decided to start playing tennis, since it was something fun to do outside and good exercise. We borrowed some rackets from a friend and started goofing around once or twice a week. Over time, I really got into it, and now I’m seeking to improve and play more competitively. My girlfriend’s interest, however, quickly began to wane. It’s come to the point where I almost have to beg her to play with me. I have found a decent wall nearby. While it’s good for drills and exercise, it’s just not the same as rallying with someone else.

My heart absolutely hurts reading this! I just had an argument with my partner whom I am asking to play with me TO PRACTICE and he cannot conceive the idea of playing tennis just to have quality practice, it has to be a match. I am beyond frustrated honestly, but if I never get "practice" I can never truly increase my skill. As said in this video, in a match you are trying to win so you do not develop new technique because you are reverting what your body knows from before, and it's totally understandable. It's just not the same. My desire is to find a tennis buddy with whom I can practice 80% of the time, still challenge one another but build new technique and automatic skills through solid repetition.

​@ArijanaLukic You can use the match to practice. But you must not be upset when you lose points while working on your shots. In fact, I practice my second serve in match play. I didn't care that I double faulted, but the goal is to be more and more relaxed with the second serve and double fault less and less over time.

Thanks for clarifying. That makes sense 🙌

This is awesome

It matters. You beat me to it.

Of course it matters, thanks for the great explanation.

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Keep trying J

That's true about your mindset. But vs a pusher who rarely hits an approach shot winner, or a volley, but almost never makes an unforced error you shouldn't apply the same strategy as against a player with your own style. Send some short balls to him, make him come to the net where he plays poorly and attack the net after your best shots if his best passing shot is a slow slice.

Underrated comment. I find more experienced mid level recreational opponents often resort to low trajectory back and side spin chop shots both fore and backhand for added precision and to manufacture angles - their intention being to try and kill points and or force an error vs an open rally and expansive tennis. Faced with this I think I overcook my top-spin fore and backhand and miss long or wide then you get in a low confidence spiral. Before you know it you too are chopping and hey presto you get terrible tennis. Equally for return of serve , it will often come back high , deep and spinning with no pace. I usually find one of two things happens. 1 I can power drive through to oddly positioned but slower balls and win easily , 2 I cannot as the ball is just too out of my comfort zone to swing at properly - then after losing a few games failing I also resort to higher or spinning hack shots and we get protracted rallies where no balls are deep or with pace until someone comes to the net and then its really 50/50 as the lob is usually effective in low pace rallies. The only respite in all of that is when I am returning serve- then you can at least hit the ball well and usually start a rally with pace at least. sigh. its just a hurdle to overcome . But they don't hit those balls like that in practice either I find, so often you only get confronted with this enigma in lower / mid levels of competition. Just me or anybody else have this problem also ?

@@helimax yep :)

Thank you Stephen. Not sure why Nadal is my favorite. I saw him beat Federer in Miami in 2004 and since then I’ve been rooting for him. I love absolutely everything about this guy and the funny thing is that I usually don’t like Spanish players. He is my all time favorite and replaced Agassi. So when they faced each other while Andre was still playing I wanted Nadal to win.

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100% kids need more match play

So true, I play at the high school level and all of our matches are 1 8 game set, but I went to first UTR tournament where you play 2 sets of 6 games and it’s a lot more taxing, but I made to the final and finished 2nd.

Agreed. Nick has made some great videos, but I think this video really missed the mark on tactics. It almost made it seem like that tennis itself is a rudimentary game - like tic-tac-toe! As you say, adjustment in tactics and strategy based on opponent's weaknesses is a necessary skill to have in competitive play (at any level).

@@CoachAdrian That's right about any level! Of course at the higher levels it's harder to both spot and exploit weaknesses, than it is at the recreational level, where it is also easier to bump into the rock-paper-scissors effect. Because some player's natural strength exploits perfectly another's weakness and there's little potential to adjust, comparing to higher levels.

@@dennisthegreek5336 Yep, definitely hard to spot weaknesses in higher levels, but it's still there. Someone like Brad Gilbert would have never accomplished anything without sound tactics and strategy. He even elevated Agassi's game to legendary status with shrewd tactical adjustments in his game. 👍

Nice way of putting it!

Read it. It’s great

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This is so so so so true: I almost ALWAYS hit a great return when a serve's long. Amazing when you think your mind only has about a 10th of a second to notice and relax before you hit the ball.

So true - return of long serve is great EVERY TIME :)

I'd like to say that you have not developed a good, consistent serve and hence you don't have confidence in it. I obviously could be wrong but that is my suspicion. I'm short so I serve with spin, a lot of it. I frustrate my opponents with top and side spin and I've never ever received serve first. Being the first on the board is a huge psychological edge. Keep practicing