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I don't disagree with you at all. The challenge with my forehand has always been making it smaller and more technically correct and not making it larger. I have always wanted my forehand to be more like my backhand. It gets closer every day but never quite gets there. You can make technical...

Hmm.. what's your ELO? I doubt a professional level chess player would ever say that, to be honest. It's far more than consistency. Just the amount of patterns and plays that 2500 level chess players (Strong IMs and weak GMs) can summon from memory far outstrips anything that exists at the...

People also underestimate the impact of equipment. Watch this match - can anyone watching this match tell me that Timo Boll's stroke is markedly inferior in spin and pace? But in 2016, the ball is bigger and there is no longer speed glue, and one group of players is heavily boosting and...

And then you focus only on the ones who made it, not the ones who get injured and spit out by the process. The point you made about having different forehands, especially one for slower balls with a straighter arm and one for faster balls with more bend in the elbow is one that Brett makes very...

Does Playstore automatically alert us when you send an update?

Yes, but usually, I consider loop and topspin interchangeable terms. But you are right - he still doesn't appreciate the tradeoff between spin and speed and where his focus needs to be for now.

The reason why your loops have less spin than your serves is that your serves are using whip motions and brush contact to produce spin, while your loops are using more muscle and hard contact to produce sub optimal results. The way to bridge the gap is to put more of the spin production in the...

Many servers have such tells when serving and for this particular serve, it is one common feature. One question is whether you have time to read such things in a match when the ball is coming towards you. Some servers also serve backspin but use a vigorous elbow follow through as deception...

I completely disagree - again, many of these people are spending $100s on lessons. But I guess when the app costs $60-$100, it will still be a steal.

Knife, One of the reasons why you do it from where Carl showed is that the forehand is properly hit beside you, not in front of you. IT looks better, but you are trying way too hard and swinging way too evenly. The way most strokes should feel is that the stroke is relatively slow but then...

Read what he wrote carefully.

The structure of your club is hierarchical and quite different. I would be interested in whether you would do the same if you and another coach were competing for students and both had students in the final match of an event at another club.

I think it is the number of kids and the amount of training that people like to gloss over. Even players in Europe trained to play in the Chinese way don't get as good as fast.

The same applies. IT's not just taking lessons from the coach but being a regular student of the coach to the point that a relationship has been formed where such things become uncomfortable. MY coach discusses the weaknesses of his students with each other student and sometimes coaches us to...

Kind of worth it is an understatement. How much would you pay a coach at Brett's level to practice against his serves? You may not have kept up with the updates. The app is massively good now and Brett says it is nothing close to complete.

You were likely serving spins that prevented the other player from getting into the (or their) topspin game. But often, amongst equal players, it is usually about who gets the first attack in and who is more consistent. Finding patterns that consistently let you do this is the key to most...

No. Saabs played at the NA teams in 2014 while I was there. I saw enough of his game and saw him play others to know what the easiest way to handle him would be, though for a lower rated player to do it while he has the energy to run around his forehand is not easy.

Sabas has a nasty forehand. If you can't wear him out or make him use his backhand, you are in for a long day.

Top seed is not the same thing as best player unless you confuse ratings with playing level. Also, at the lower levels, all kinds of weaknesses facing specific balls and spins limit your effectiveness. This is true at the higher levels as well, but in more subtle ways. And of course, Ilia is...

Jeffrey had taken Kai Zhang to 3-2 before and has been close to 2300. So while the guy may have been weaker vs lefties, David played at a high level.