This is a gem of a video. Everyone who has even an iota of interest in tennis should watch it. Thank you Tomaz.

Perhaps the best video a beginner needs to watch! Thanks!

You always provide unique insights into and about tennis incorporating physics, poise and details I've never heard from anyone else. Thank you!!!!

I absolutely love your approach to teaching tennis, especially for beginners. I don't think there's anyone out there that applies this type of approach. It's magic

I always like your classes, you make them easier to understand, Thank you, teacher.

Hello Tomas, after this video i took time to watch the wizard Federer and all the atp players, I understood why they're able to hit that kind of forehand and backhand. I will now focus my training on beating the ball for months and I'll tell you how much it changed my game. Because taking the ball at an high bounce is easier with this concept of interception point (y). Thanks a lot!

This lesson is extremely helpful for me. I gain a lot of confidence after getting this mental image for every shots Thanks Thomaz!

This was so eye opening! Thank you!

Best video I ever seen .period .

You're the best thinker tennis coach!

Amazing lesson! An easy concept of being early but much harder to execute in actuality. Thanks Tomaz

Thank you for your dedication and your amazing videos, Tomasz !

Very good explanation of why and how being late happens. Helps me realize that more mental power and energy is required to overcome this. Thank you as always!

Thanks again for a great lesson, always making me think 🤔🙏 excellent!

I cant help watching this video from time to time. Its simply great. Thanks Tomas dor your lessons.

Great tips once again Tomasz...thanks a lot.

I needed this so badly. Thanks!!!

Very detailed and ver helpful for beginners. Thanks a lot

Thanks for taking the time to explain that. I will try it next time I am on the court.

Another awesome lesson easy to learn easy to apply, congrats for your dedication to help players to correct their game !

This may be why I suck - I have good strokes but I do exactly what you show in matches. Time to focus on this instead of mechanics.

Very important and overlooked factor. Thanks Tomas for this video

Great lesson Tomaz

Thanks a lot.. Big lesson... Big coach

Reach the ball in time is the topic with these 3 steps great drills. Great Thomas. To do this , the first step is ofcourse the anticipation of the ball as quickly as you can.

Thank you Tomaz for the informative and detailed video

Thanks!

i always like your topics in tennis.

Your strokes are so clean. I learn a lot from your videos espesially stable wrist concept. Thank you so much

Really good lesson. I would add that for hitting a drop shot setting up early is even more important. Your margin of error significantly decreases if the foot is set when hitting a drop shot. Pretty hard to hit a drop shop while moving (unless you're RF then you do what you want).

Gracias ....saludos desde Colombia

thanks tomasz! this is my current main problem

Thanks Tomaz

I'm not a beginner but this video explains why I make several unforced errors when playing against more qualified players than me. Thanks for caaling my attention to this matter.

This is genius. I do this mistake all the time 😮

Great video. I like to think of this as beating the ball to the bounce. By that i mean having your outside for planted before the ball bounces on your side of the court. That gives you enough time to load the outside foot and drop the racket as the ball is coming up towards you

Excellent video. Would you recommend the slinger ball machine as good value for money or is it better to spend more for a more functional machine? Thanks

Wow, this is a rare video that I could apply and benefit from on the first try, with a dramatically improved "feel". And if I forgot and got to the ball as usual "just in time", the contrast was profound enough that the lesson was reinforced. I used to be a serious softball outfielder and it was fine to get to the ball JIT and make the catch, tho TBH with a runner on third we would get there fast enough to set up for a strong throw home in case they tag up. Never thought to apply that to tennis, to better set up for a shot after getting to the ball. Thx for a great tip!

Thanks Tomaz, 👍🙏

Focus and relaxation of whole body create a quick reaction to the shot

I would appreciate a video on how to deal with 'too much time'

Beautiful explanation. What's the ball machine make you are using ?

Although, if you take the serve as an example, some of the better returns of intermediate players is when there is no time to think , so from fast serves. When there is more time often the shot is worse than when there is less time

Hi Tomas ! Greetings 🖖 Always great insights in your vids and I think before anyone goes into technical inputs one must improve timing and more I see your vids iam convinced that timing is critical and a very much overlooked factor while developing technique. Wish you could also provided more inputs on timing and how to be more automated while playing matches. Practice does help but for matches any timing tips will be really fruitful. Regards and wishing you the best always.

What ball machine do you recommend?

H Tomaz, how do we find that meeting point ? Do I need to get behind the ball on my groundstrokes? Or do I need to get slightly to the left of the ball on my forehand and get slightly to the right of the ball on my backhand? You are a great teacher and you have helped me a lot. Thank you

Your video is right up my alley. I’m not a beginner but I do what you are describing. It is one of my goals to prepare early but I work on all kinds of things and perfect none it feels. This beat the ball will be a great assist in preparing early I believe. Thank you once again 🤗 On another note Tomaz what would you give priority to: beat the ball, prepare early, contact point, eye on the ball, top spin swing path, swing slow to fast, use a universal swing path, use the kinetic chain, play without tension. See what I mean too many things to perfect. If you could just put these in order for me I will stay with just two perhaps and then move on🤔

Excellent video and very well illustrated Tomaz ! I have a question that has nothing to do with this content exactly, but it is the following: assuming that we should try to hit whenever possible the ideal contact area for each of us, what is your option to achieve this? Hit the ball on the rise ? What would be the best option ? Thank you so much Tomaz

Great as always! But why sand on the hard court?

"Conservation of energy" Feel tennis fans know what Tomaz really means, the ;) is a dead giveaway.

super insightful video as usual... was the machine sending bad balls for the smash? Your smash looked really in bad form...

I always think get behind the ball - finishing by stepping across with back leg, then stepping forwards with the front leg and swing. That way my brain does the right thing for normal ground strokes and I get there just fast enough to do a relaxed swing but not so fast I am hanging around and lose momentum. Unfortunately that doesn't work with the overhead as you end up setup a bit too far back and will therefore smash it into the net...

Same with overhead, overheads are difficult because there is so much time from the ball being high and coming down, and its that too much time that creates the bad shot....for a beginner/intermediate

Just to give you an idea of how f__ked up wheelchair (WC) tennis is, we are taught to HIT WHILE MOVING through the ball, i.e. rolling through the shot and PAST the point of contact. We do this to a. add power to the shot (as we are usually moving forward towards the ball), and b. to CONSERVE MOMENTUM, as it's much easier to move a moving wheelchair, as opposed to starting from a dead stop. We then TURN OUR BACK to the opponent and push back to FAR behind the baseline (we get two bounces) to prepare for the next shot, another extremely counterintuitive, but basic, tenet of WC tennis. You can imagine what this does to a player's mindset, especially someone who has played the stand up game, what we call "able-bodied tennis"! I'm no Raphael Federer, tennis genius; I never competed or even played many matches, but I rallied for hours and hours as a teenager with my oncourt friends, deeply ingraining the movement patterns you so expertly describe on your channel. Now, as a WC player, I continually hurry to the spot where the ball will arrive, stop (!) and hit the ball, then TRY to move laterally (vs. backwards) back to roughly the middle of the baseline, never turning completely away from the action. Wrong, wrong, wrong! If you're still with me, there's more: We are taught to move forwards towards the ball at a 45° angle, making a V-shape towards balls to either backhand or forehand, execute the stroke while rolling, then make a 180° U-turn and come back along the V and back to a point WELL behind the baseline, which we call "the Hub". Only...I don't do the either! Instead, I try to move exactly SIDEWAYS, at a 90° angle, stop and hit, and then try like hell to get back to a "normal" spot just behind the baseline. I rarely succeed at this, but it's all so burned into my tennis psyche that I just don't seem to be able to unlearn and replace these movement patterns with the newer, more effective ones. Also, at 60 years of age, replacing old habits with new ones is not, as they say, "in my wheelhouse". That's a pun, I guess. Any advice for helping this old dog learn new tricks? Or must I learn to accept the fact that normal tennis has RUINED me for the wheelchair game? Oh, and also I can't watch the ball to save my life! Is it just my aging eyes failing me, as with every other organ I own?! I tell you it's tough to watch every facet of your normal human existence fade into the inevitable and increasingly overcast sunset that awaits us all at the "end of the shift". If this sounds morose, like it's coming from a deeply depressed, former tennis adept and enthusiast, well... Any response, from anyone, is greatly and sincerely appreciated. Thank you for reading this - JD, Montreal

I'm just one of the many pickleball players who have learned how to properly hit a pickleball by watching your excellent videos!!

ok i am persuaded 😅

How to get right feel during ball impact, How to reduce vibration How should be flexion if wrist How to reduce wrist injury How to ensure ball comes at right spot in racket Please provide drill.

Yes another great lesson! An aspect of tennis that is so essential yet usually completely overlooked!!! Nothing glamorous like "do you want to hit like Federer", not me, I just want to get the ball over the net and in the lines more often than not!! I think beating the ball will help me achieve that end. Thanks

As well as too much time, another reason why easy short balls are difficult is because there are seemingly so many options where to hit the ball, more choice, more problems!

short balls definitely fall into this category of 'too much time as the cause of a bad shot'

yep.. my mistake, I rush and tense up, don't hit the ball in front with an extended arm...

Im from indonesia 👍

If I want to beat the ball how do I know where it is going?

I play people who play much better if i hit hard to them than if i hit easy high short , medium balls to them.

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Is that a hardcourt with clay on it? lol