Spinning the racquet first! It's been bugging me for a while to do it after warm up but when its game time, I always forget to change the routine. Will do next time. Makes more sense. Plus: it's how the pros roll. 😎😄
To your point of how the mini tennis started: I started playing a few years ago and the majority of my matches come in UTR flex leagues where there is no time limit on the warmup because there's no officials. I didn't play my first tournament match until 20+ matches of league play and didn't even really consider that the warmup I was used to is not time efficient. So if other people are also used to that environment, I can see how these inefficient warmups proliferate.
I think the point of mini tennis is to get that feeling of putting heavy spin on the ball. I agree its useless if your just tapping the ball back and forth but i feel its a good way for me to warm up my topspin due to the small margin for error
I love mini tennis for racquet control and better touch tennis. I get your point about it not belonging in warm up. I think about warm up as something to warm up the muscles, but that SHOULD have been done beforehand. It's also to get the court conditions figured out. Surface if the court is new to you, sun, wind, lights etc. Nice brag on beating one of the all time best doubles players!! He is legend, so you BEAT LEGEND!!
Ya the match warm up - the one you do With your opponent, is a completely different beast than the personal warm-up you do before. I’m a huge advocate of people doing mini tennis, or whatever makes them feel match ready. Once you step into that tournament 5 to 7 minute mandatory warm-up. You shouldn’t need mini tennis anymore.
I absolutely love mini tennis outside of the match warm up. Before the match with your friend/coach. YES. 100%. With your opponent. No bueno.
Mini tennis has improved my strokes more than anything else that I’ve tried. Love it
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Spinning the racquet first! It's been bugging me for a while to do it after warm up but when its game time, I always forget to change the routine. Will do next time. Makes more sense. Plus: it's how the pros roll. 😎😄
To your point of how the mini tennis started:
I started playing a few years ago and the majority of my matches come in UTR flex leagues where there is no time limit on the warmup because there's no officials. I didn't play my first tournament match until 20+ matches of league play and didn't even really consider that the warmup I was used to is not time efficient. So if other people are also used to that environment, I can see how these inefficient warmups proliferate.
Great insight. Thanks for sharing.
I think the point of mini tennis is to get that feeling of putting heavy spin on the ball. I agree its useless if your just tapping the ball back and forth but i feel its a good way for me to warm up my topspin due to the small margin for error
I love mini tennis for racquet control and better touch tennis. I get your point about it not belonging in warm up. I think about warm up as something to warm up the muscles, but that SHOULD have been done beforehand. It's also to get the court conditions figured out. Surface if the court is new to you, sun, wind, lights etc. Nice brag on beating one of the all time best doubles players!! He is legend, so you BEAT LEGEND!!
Ya the match warm up - the one you do With your opponent, is a completely different beast than the personal warm-up you do before. I’m a huge advocate of people doing mini tennis, or whatever makes them feel match ready. Once you step into that tournament 5 to 7 minute mandatory warm-up. You shouldn’t need mini tennis anymore.
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