You'll NEVER Level Up.. Unless You Do THIS! 

Probably the 1-2 split step. As soon as the match starts the pressure is on and all that goes out the window. For some reason it’s very hard to program my brain and body to default to this during matches. Everything is a scramble. Great video. Thanks!

keep the stache

Alternate crosscourt and down the line shots consistently

These are all great, thanks Karue, very helpful! I struggle with positioning myself at the exact same distance from the ball each time. Sometimes I strike clean, other times the swing is a little choked because I'm too close to the ball. I'm working on the ease and consistency that I see in your strokes.

I see what you did there!!!!

Me too , not sure about the progression

Then your opponent shows up with a razor..

I have grown the same stache, but I have a goatee also, but I’m still at 4.5. Should I shave the goatee and only do the stache to level up to 5.0? Lol

😂😂

Male Porn star- one hand on hip at all times.

I like this advice! :)

No wonder Serena was like the GOAT

It is not an accident that great athletes are often called "naturals." because they can, in performance, be totally present: they can proceed on instinct and muscle-memory and autonomic will such that agent and action are one. Great athletes can do this even- and, for The truly great ones like Borg and Bird and Nicklaus and Jordan and Austin, especially- under wilting pressure and scrutiny. They can withstand forces of distraction that would break a mind prone to self-conscious fear in two. The real secret behind top athletes' genius, then, may be as esoteric and obvious and dull and profound as silence itself. The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he stands at the center of hostile crowd-noise and lines up the free-throw that will decide the game might well be: nothing at all. How can great athletes shut off the lago-like voice of the self? How can they bypass the head and simply and superbly act? How, at the critical moment, can they invoke for themselves a cliché as trite as "One ball at a time" or "Gotta concentrate here" and mean it, and then do it? Maybe it's because, for top athletes, clichés present themselves not as trite but simply as true, or perhaps not even as declarative expressions with qualities like depth or triteness or falsehood or truth but as simple imperatives that are either useful or not and, if useful, to be invoked and obeyed and that's all there is to it… It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able truly to see, articulate, and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it-and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence.

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@@DoodleBotTennis this sounds like an excerpt from a book. well said!

@@smugface9955 it is actually. From David Foster Wallace, I meant to add his tag at the foot there!

Yes exactly. Quick fixes everywhere. Simplicity wins

That’s a losing battle as the same group of people probably think they can beat Medvedev if just looking at his strokes

Nik also made a video that pros don’t always watching the ball the whole time. 😅

50y+ here... there's no shortcut... need keep the weight off, stretch regularly, sprints, plan recovery, etc... (stuff i never had to do when i was in my 20's)... i've had to change my gamestyle to be less of a grinder, because 20-somethings will outgrind me in a best of 3...

If that is what you do faster and feels more natural, then go for it. No issues at all. Just make sure the grip change happens naturally, like you don’t think about it

Same here. Sometimes I spend almost a whole practice session until I realise I wasn't really looking, and then my forehands instantly get better when I tell myself to look. It feels silly really.

If you used to be a clean hitter isn't it possible that you're not hitting as cleanly, because you aren't in the right position anymore? Just a thought.

@@tijgertjekonijnwordopgegeten That is possible but it's not the case for me. I am not watching the ball to contact. When I change that one thing, the problem is resolved.

Ikr lol

How about you write it down? The video is there, you can do some of the work 😏

1) Utilize your dominant arm for consistent forehands. 2) Take advantage of close line calls to get ahead in the match. 3) Keep track of the score in case your opponent forgets key points. 4) Move your feet into position to drive through the ground. 4) Always center your strings between points to unlock consistent power.

I think he uses a Natrual gut in the maines and a poly in the cross, don't know which steing specifically though.