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11/04/2026

The one thing MISSING from your backhand

11/04/2026

Going down the line after running around your backhand feels like the aggressive play. It's actually three mistakes at once.

You're sending the ball to your opponent's forehand. That's their strength, not their weakness.

The net is higher on that side, and you have less court to work with than if you go cross-court. Your margin for error drops at exactly the moment you need it most.

And when your opponent gets that ball on their forehand, they can rip a cross-court reply and send you sprinting across the entire baseline to chase it down.

Same shot. Three separate ways to make your situation worse.

Now look at the green path. Going CROSS-COURT sends the ball to your opponent's backhand. The net is lower. You have more court. And you end up in a better recovery position without doing anything extra.

Same aggressive intention. Just aimed the right way.

11/03/2026

Focus on THIS to win more matches

11/02/2026

How NOT to improve your tennis consistency:

10/31/2026

Most players assume being at net automatically makes their team dangerous.

Smart opponents know better.

When you're one-up one-back and your opponents are both at the net, they have a simple choice: deal with your net player, or route every ball around them and straight at your partner.

The second option is almost always easier.

Your net player can't volley a ball that NEVER comes to them. Your partner, stuck at the baseline alone, handles shot after shot with no help. Ball after ball until they break down and hand over an easy put-away.

That's the avoidance pattern. Opponents find it, and they run it until the point is done.

The one-up one-back formation has its place. But your net player has to be a real threat, not just a body standing there. If opponents can comfortably route around you, they will. Make them deal with you, or get back and help your partner.

10/31/2026

How I win tennis matches:

10/30/2026

How to FIX your tennis intensity

10/30/2026

Maximizing your forehand is a good instinct, and it stops being good the moment it hands your opponent an opening you cannot cover. Watch what happens after this player moves around to hit a forehand and goes down the line. Freeze it at contact and look at what his opponent can actually do. Straight back there is no angle available, none at all. Cross court there is a big one, the kind of shot that lands and then keeps traveling off the court. Those two options are nothing like each other, and his recovery treats them as if they were. He has about two steps to cover the side with no angle and about six to cover the side with the angle, roughly three times the ground. He is not slightly out of position, he is way out of whack. The correction is where he stands, before the ball is ever struck. When the ball is in front of you because you just hit it there, your position belongs cross court from it, far enough over to account for the angle that exists on one side and not the other. Change the direction of the ball, and you have to change where you stand.

10/30/2026

he ball is dead in the middle of the court, so the middle is where this player should be standing, and instead he has shaded well over to one side. There is a reason, and it is not laziness. He has just finished hitting a forehand and he wants another one, so he shifts to his left to make the next forehand more likely. A solid 10 minutes of highlights from this match show the same shift after almost every contact, which makes it a pattern rather than a one off mistake. The uncomfortable part is that it works. He really is maximizing his chance of hitting another forehand, and that is exactly why it is so easy to keep doing. The problem is, the scales have tipped so far in that direction that a huge, obvious chunk of court is sitting open to a high percentage target, and his opponent only has to hit a safe, standard shot to use it. That one ordinary ball sends him traveling across most of the court, and he never recovers in time for the next one, so he spends the rest of the point behind. Stop asking how often you can get to your favorite shot. Ask what you are leaving open to buy it.

10/29/2026

Why you miss so many shots:

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