Boletteri Tennis Academy. OH man.. good days back in the day. When Tennis Magazine always had a advertisement . Every KIDS dream to go there . Tennis was huge back then!!
I played tennis regularly from the ages 12-18 and know the game well. Agassi's consistent hitting at/near the sweetspot of the string bed is so amazing! No mis-hits! Super talent!
LOL. The internet - where playing tennis for a few years and not accomplishing anything qualifies you to pretend you can tell that from fuzzy old video! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nick's coaching was pretty much on the point considering it's the 80s, Federer and Nadal ran around their backhands for entirety of the 2000s and still do today.
@@thecoach1683 So did this generation of players - particularly Jim courier. Krickstein, Arias, Lendl and others did it periodically before them. Even players like Newk - and others well before him - did it on occasion.
semi-western. If you want to break it down further it varied slightly between full semi-western and a bit more eastern depending on incoming ball. Much like MANY players today.
@@datacipher thanks! I pick up the game again lately and feel completely different game now. My buddy hits high bounce top spin whereas mine is flat return. The teenage girl next court was hitting the ball so hard put me to complete shame.
Not at the beginning of his career. He improved his backhand until he found a good balance but his massive weapon was his forehand especially at the beginning.
No, it was never his "best" weapon but even when he was 18 many felt it might be his best shot - considering how solid it was and how it could certainly be used as a weapon. It became trendy and cool to claim that in tennis circles later - as if they had some special insight, but of course it wasn't true. Nor were people stupid enough to play matches trying to give him lots of forehands loL! Out of one analysis of 30,000 strokes his forehand winning percentage was much higher than his backhand and UE was about the same.
@@jean-manuelmarie7845 not really. His forehand was always biggest yes, but his backhand was known to be exceptional from day 1. Even mainstream publications like tennis magazine in their early 1989 article on 2 handed backhands quoted somebody saying that Agassi's best shot may be his backhand. (not true, but it was fair to note how excellent it was.)
guy is a friekin world class coach!! (I mean, duh - but it really is something to marvel at). I like the video where he's coaching Haas - he is just so good at offering encouragement in a cool way, stroking a guy's ego in a healthy way, basically. That's what it is.
That's what most agree on. Nick couldn't even play. His technical knowledge was/isn't great (and some of his tech gurus are outright idiots - but that's another story), but his coaching genius most agree was that he was good at identifying a few key things here or there and MAINLY he was good at encouraging players. As Courier once said (when he really despised Nick), he could come along, talk to you for a minute, say nothing of substance, and leave with you feeling like a million bucks and the next #1. LOL. ...and at that level...working with greats, and soon-to-be greats....that's fairly important! They don't need a lot of tech help, sheer confidence can mean a lot.
not an athlete,,,sampras was the forehand I prefered better mover smoother..He still did good Agassi Vic Braden is my mentor as a coach,,, read his books
Yeah his father was more of a source of Andre's self-destructive nature. Andre hated tennis and his Dad pretty much forced him into it playing it for hours every day. He learned to straighten out later in his career though and become very focused.
When Agassi dropped off the charts when he took time off I believe it was NB who he called and said let’s go train and he won Wimbledon for the first time?
