haha thank you!

It’s growing slowly! Thanks for following

Love to hear you’re playing smarter!!

Love to hear you’re using simple strategy!!

Yes to this.

Can i wade in. My take on this is what i term tennis is not a game of errors but a game of spaces. those cross court balls hurt the more wider they go, and the deeper they are, thereby getting your opponent of the court for you to hit into a relatively open safe space for the winner. the same principle goes for the serve plus 1. the high percentage on both sides is the slider out wide on the deuce and the kicker out wide on the ad. this creates immediately the scenario Stokke is presenting. the returns normally are central and your opponent is off the court and there is a 4 opportunity with low risk. the return of the first serve is also like like this return cross court and if you are really hot from the pace of the serve aim for center and immediately start getting the plus one cross cross. you will win more points this way and matches

Going down the line there is a solid play, but you could have an opening for a strong number 2 if THEIR down the line isn’t that strong

Inside shots like that make it easier to hit a number 4. But I would only try it if line is open or you want to change the angle of the rally

@@StokkeTennis My FH is fairly ordinary but I have a fairly decent BH so I'm keen to move away from long FH rallies. Actually, having reached 60, I'm quite keen to avoid any type of long rally :)

If they cover the net really well you have to lob, but the real improvement is keeping it deeper so they don’t come in

It certainly depends, but remember, I said an “offensive” number 4. You can change with height and margin whenever you’d like!

That makes sense. I know there is always room for subtlety but appreciate your approach of simplifying and high percentages. More than enough for the rec level. Thanks for the reply and clarification.

Correct

Changing the direction of the rally is totally fine if you do it with margin. Lots of height and closer to the middle line. Get the cross court you want, and then hammer it with depth

Yes, at least runway A

Haha he doesn’t. These are the dumb choices players tend to make. It’s true, my down the line pass doesn’t seem like THAT bad an option. But guess what? It wasn’t optimal. Low middle was the play but I’m a rat and took the cheese.

@@StokkeTennis Interesting. Flipping it to the perspective of the netplayer, I've always been told to cover the line, but perhaps I should tempt them to hit there. BTW, for shot #3, sometimes as a lefty, I want to get out of crosscourt rallies on a deuce court and will hit a soft feathery BH slice DTL. Not going for a winner but just trying to change the rally to my FH. Watching a tournament it was interesting seeing these errors/tactics come into play.

There's a time and a place for all of them...3 is just the most unlikely

@@StokkeTennis Not for no.1 and no.2.

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Eastern/semi western

assuming most exchanges are among righty to righty, there is an indeed contradiction between hit-cross-court and hit-to-opponent-backhand. I like to hear people's opinions on this. there is another video talking about hitting more through the middle (the ball should go through opponent's baseline before going through the sideline). Given a standard deviation of aiming error, should shot #1 and #2 aimed at middle of the right half of opponent's right side baseline?

@@yili9725 Not really a contradiction. You are generally better off going cross court against a cross court shot. However, a lot of balls are up the middle and then it is often better to go after your opponent’s weakness with pace or spin rather than an angle, since you can’t create as sharp an angle from baseline middle and you just give them a ball that they can hit a sharper angle off of.

Even balls “through the middle” are coming in on a slight angle. And of course, depends on opponent. But generally speaking people try number 4 shots for no reason. Hitting 1s and 2s are almost always great decisions, it’s just sometimes, a 3 or 4 could be a better decision based on certain situations

@@StokkeTennis good point. simply put: only hit 3 and 4 if there is a good reason.

Going for backhand, and high crosscourt usage are different strategies. You want to weigh which is more effective to use against the opponent