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Can’t believe the obvious hasn’t been stated yet: your leg load is off of the front foot Ideally it should feel 60/40 off of the back foot, but shouldn’t look like it on video Because you want to serve going forward, you’re too eager to weight transfer, so you shift forward ever so slightly before you make contact. When it’s time for you to make contact, your weight shift is spent, and you almost only have arms for explosion. One of my weirdest but favorite drills is serving without wearing the dominant side shoe. So for you, the right foot will be lower and a you can feel a lot more in the leg drive

Great video, don’t know if you know it but your backhand could also be a weapon, you like to loop your backhand to set up , but you could also develop it into a weapon, just saying

Swinging well with that Aero 98!

Have to say. Wasn't a fan of the live mike with a practice. The heaving breathing (which is understandable) was sort of getting in the way of watching it. And I wlays think that being attached to a live mike is dangerous because it can pick up people's farting 😂.

I think you dont need to add more weight. You just need to swing a lot faster with aero98. Your swing is relatively slow, kinda like guiding the ball. You can get away with that on prostaff and still get good results, but yeah try swing way faster on the aero 98 and youll see! I interchange using aero98 and Prostaff 97. I agree with everything you said. 🍻

Love US ratings if that guy is a 5.0 I must be a 10.0 😂

Pete Sampras posture!

You have good technique and a fine serve, but I don't quite understand why you keep playing so defensively and at the same pace against Brian. If you step into the court a bit more and play more aggressively/hit harder at certain moments and also target his forehand more, you will win this match much faster and easier. You really can do that, but you do it too little. Is it a matter of confidence? I don't know how long you've been playing? Because you should be able to do that easily. It's very safe now, and that's how you get into trouble against better opponents.

5:02 What a generous call

I have to ask, is the Pure Aero 98 everything it's cracked up to be? Considering it as a Holiday gift to myself. As a reference, I have the Strike VS/97/98, Pure Drive 100 & Yonex Vcore Pro 97. The Yonex I've played with the longest in matchplay but I'm looking for a little bit more increased power and spin. Both the VS & 97 I'm looking to sell as the 98 is just more forgiving and fun due to the increased swing weight.

The point construction was worth the watch. I could tell each of you were exploring nearly all dimensions of tennis in that set. I feel like your willingness to play with high percentage angles is what gave you the edge.

yes. disguise+ placement > speed any time any day

Looking pretty damn tall from this angle😂

Beautiful forehand

You're a good player. One note on forehand. Your wrist looks stiff - the butt cap of the racket never points toward the ball. It's as if you're hesitant to go through a full range of motion by really letting the racket lag and so potentially missing out on creating a heavier ball.

didnt you have a video a few days back where you ditched the aero 98?

amazing tennis IQ from Robert

damn, the old dude is so good

Also when I see that he just lets that first lob go over him and not even try to run it down that early in the match screams lazy/out of shape to me. I'd hit drop shots and lobs and make him run all day. He'd be frustrated with me after about 10-15 minutes haha.

Are you using in-between eastern and semi-western grip?

Hiya tennis addict here, playing since 13 years old to 27 ish, i saw a few comments and yes, all good advice, the only thing i would add is i see is the same problem i still have, the angle from your ledt arm should be pointing a little more towards the sky, that will help the shoulder over shoulder tech, a coach told me to feel my left shoulder on the cheek of my face to tell that im doing it right, plus, you lack a bit of loading on your legs to reach that explosiveness and transfer your weight into the serve more, if you do both things after you land on the ground your foot from the right leg should naturally elevate, a good example is ben shelton serve.... keep improving my guy, use those legs, they add like 20mph to your serve ngl

Hey man. I see a very solid technique/fundamentals + a great slice serve. Obsviouly a great serve depends on what you are trying to get out of it. However, in my opinion, if we talk about the technique, I see the need to improve your "shoulder over shoulder" and on your toss. Your left arm is dropping too early and I believe it is related to your low toss. If we think about kinetic force, the less time you have to load, the less acceleration you will be able to generate. Therefore, tossing a little higher and trying to get your left arm to stay longer in the trophy position will possibly help you load better and hit a higher acceleration/power on your serve. Again, it depends on what kind of serve you are trying to hit, each kind has a different outcome. I also see you hit most of your serves slice which is ok, but it would be worth working on some pronation exercises that will help you develop kick and flat serve.

bro it is already good. what do you need? power?

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My vote is yes, you are. Hadn't seen you play this guy before. Your S & V tactic is improving all the time. I still see a fair number of your balls still landing mid court, and that can invite your opponent to attack. It seems that stems from an almost massaging of the ball on your swing. You are getting much better at placement, but maybe you lack the confidence to hit with more pace, fearing a loss of control? Not sure. I did see late in the video he was much better at just unloading on his shots, and they were penetrating through the court, giving you trouble. I would think that would be your next phase of stepping up. Add pace to your control. Just my two cents worth.

Use your wrist for direction change. Don't change the toss for direction

Nice one Sandrato. You're clearly putting a lot more rip on the ball. Can't wait to see you put that into your matchplay. Also is that Robert on the next court? His backhand is very recognisable haha.

forehand looking already more powerful, seems like you're hitting a bit flatter. Your backhands biggest issue from what I can see in this video is that you tend to hit it too thin which can be the result of not stepping into it, having too steep of an angle and not getting properly under the ball/swinging too early - basically all of the 3 points previously is hitting the ball a bit too much in front of you

Good job loving the intensity , remember getting better is a long process but as long as you keep doing what you are doing you will get better. Also another recommendation is find a coach that you respect that can take a really hard look at your game and help you with your weakeneses. Even if it’s once per month, I find that helps big time. I know you are a coach yourself but is good to have another set of eyes analyzing your game

Great placement on the serves and wicked spin too! At that level, can really inconvenience even experienced players. Are you happy with how they are or are you looking to get more power on them? Do you have any shoulder / upper body / arm injuries? If no injuries, a great exercise is standing half court and serving over the net into the opposing side's service box with your regular service motion, while focusing specifically on accelarating through the pronation. You can think of your kinetic chain as broken up into parts, starting all the way from the toes on your feet to your wrist, hand, and fingers, with all the other joints along the way. And I'm not saying think of this when you're on court playing, but when you practice, you can break it up into parts and work on the individual aspects of the chain that you identify as weaker. In this case, I think you can get a nice boost in power if you can work on that snappy pronation motion part of your kinetic chain. Standing half court and serving forces your body to focus on that pronation first and foremost to satisfy the conditions of the task. So you have no choice but to exaggerate the pronation motion. Then after warming up like that for a while and really getting a feel for that whipping motion with your shoulder and elbow, move back to full court and start slow back there again, but really focusing on the pronation again, and specifically, accelarating into the contact point like you're trying to whip it. Most importantly is just warm up as much as possible. I'm not a coach but I've been able to improve my own game by working on individual little segments of my own kinetic chain in every practice session for every ground-stroke. Good luck!

Nothing strange too see here. Good service. Maybe you can try pinpoint stance and practice to see if that improves your serve.

The slice gives it good sidespin but also slows it down, try hitting it a bit flatter and pull your left hand toward your chest a bit to get even more acceleration.

What you have is not just a first serve, but a perfect second serve. Great job. True second serve is a combination of flat and slice serve as well. 👍👏👏👏👏

You hit a great slice. I feel like you need more variety though. A good flat serve and a consistent kick serve would make your game leagues better.

You have a decent serve and the good thing is it looks very repeatable. My main observation, and remember I'm just an idiot on the internet, is that your torso remains a bit too upright, so you don't create anywhere near as much distance between your racket and the ball as you need to generate serious pace. Also notice how when you load, you shift your weight forward very quickly, then slow down, before reaching up to the ball. I wonder if you could delay the momentum and keep more weight in your back leg to emphasise the weight transfer and leg drive? If you pause at 1.54 for example, notice that just as you're about to unload, your right toe is barely touching the ground, meaning hardly any leg drive is coming from the rear leg, which limits how much your hips and torso can drive.

Your Pre-Throw or Trophypose is not storing enough energy and your arm is not loose enough. I would recommend you to smash some balls from next to the net to loosen up your motion and getting a better feel for your abdominal oblique muscle. Sending you all the best and greetings 👑

Everything honestly looks good. Only thing that would be lacking that I can see would be to find better understanding of your pronation. This is where a lot of your power will come from. Leg drive/coil/ect all look adequate. Your serves all look like a controlled serve at 75-80% of power. Which is good for 4.5. You will need to somehow to get to the same level of control at 90% power. Look into pronation a little more and that should take you to more power on serves with less effort. Review your videos and see what your racquet is doing right before and after making impact with the ball, and compare that with server analyzers for pro servers. You will instantly see what I mean by effortless power via pronation.

From my observation, you initiate your serve with what looks to be a decent coil but then you "relax" into a more "comfortable" position right before you accelerate. You can observe that perfectly when you watch the first two serves from your video in slow motion. It almost looks like your upper body follows the ball for a bit, opens up by that, until you decide to initiate the swing. As a result, you totally break out of a powerful, loaded position and also have not a lot of coil left to work with right before the acceleration phase. This leads to you having to compensate by generating a lot of force with your arm and shoulder to somehow be able to generate a decently fast serve. The second thing I would keep an eye on is the direction in which you transfer your weight. Try to transfer your weight more in the direction of the target you want to hit. Notice how pro players get into and remain in a solid, loaded stance and keep their body tension right before they generate their power through the uncoiling, the legs and weight transfer. The body needs to work as one unit. Try to generate the power more "through your body" instead of your shoulder/arm and think of "intensity" and "loading" and do not simply "fall relaxed into the direction of the ball" so to speak.. Hope this helps

back with the aero?

You’re hitting with cut spin, is that your intention? If you want flat serve you should toss more to the right and snap down

you have almost 0 coil from back to forward robbing you of a huge source of power, your power comes from arm and that slight skip forward; you could prob add 30+ mph if you learned how to coil your body backward making your body like a ''c'', it doesnt have to be huge coil like someone like roddick ( allthough the more coil you can have the more power you will get) but just a slight coil gives you so much more space for you to generate racket speed AND putting more body weight into the serve. Shoulder turn is good and use of legs is good. With how much forward you're traveling with your serve it seems like it would be way easier for you to learn a pin point stance rather than platform because it's very difficult to have a huge forward travel while coiling when in platform stance, I think the best example of someone who was able to do this was pete sampras, but he hit the ball lower (relative to his body) than you do and had more of a forward leaning serve style rather than jumping forward style as you do. summary: learn to coil your body, investigate sliding into pin point stance so you can keep that forward jumping style of serving

Motion is pretty solid imo. You do have a hitch in the trophy pose portion that may be robbing some power.

I think something that could make you improve really fast is to do what you're doing but learning to hit it deep cross court. Why? you have more margin for error going crosscourt so you can hit even harder and at your level people are not that great at getting a hard ball to their forehand

your forehand cross courts need to be deeper or bigger angle or more power, most of your forehands are quite in the middle of his forehand making the opponent being able to dictate you too much

Serve plus drop shot. No fing way unless you have a big forehand and opponent therefore stays far away from baseline.

After a long period of testing I ended up with the blade 98 18x20. Best feel and control ever. Especially for my flat shots and single handed backhand. I still test rackets because I like it, and the Vcores and Percept are next. So thanks for this video. I am really interested in the Vcore 98, but so far I have seen the videos of all the testers on RUclips and nobody is 100% convinced that this a a really great racket (except for Meike Babel).

Hello man new to the channel. I’ve watch some of your videos playing and I think the tittle of this video describes exactly what you should be working on. You have solid strokes but you tend to just massage the ball when hitting. Almost like you been watching to many Federer warm up videos 😂. On a serious note when practicing just try to up your intensity on hitting harder and crush balls. You need to dictate more, but you will never dictate if you are just massaging the ball. Part of it maybe is because you seem to like been a counterpuncher but at highest levels even counterpunchers dictate rallies. Keep working hard good luck

Which city are you in?

I am from South Florida if you want to to move up, the easiest way is to play USTA league 4.5 and just dominate, meaning win most of your matches. Or find a 5.0 team and play against 5.0 and win some matches. The tournament route is harder because even in a 5.0 tournament most are not real 5.0. I find league tennis is the way to go.

Are you back to the PA98 or still with the Technifibre?