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I did that a lot too when I wasn't arthritic. Now, everything is just annoying.

I will be at Lily before 2pm tomorrow. Been working on a lot of technical issues recently, and its been a lot of fun.

You can do almost anything to any serve if you read the spin perfectly and have the right stroke. The problem is that it is not easy to do both, especially the first. You can place a ball anywhere by adjusting your racket angle and swing trajectory.

I think what you are doing is okay and it is not about your level but what the opponent is doing to the ball after. Sometimes, you have to play for rally and sometimes, you have to play for pressure. If you are beating your opponent in the rallies, then you play for rally with safe receive...

I will meet you all at LYTTC. Is Ilia going to be there? I haven't decided whether to play or rest today.

Merry new year!!!

Yeah, but sometimes, even racket angle changes that Abe is referring to require you to hold the racket properly. Some people grip the racket in ways that give you no chance of changing the direction of the ball when you get to it.

Ah, Carl, you fully get it. You are someone who appreciates what it means to be told by 1800 level players who have never asked how long you have seriously played that you will never be as good as they are. Because they think it is magic. Reading your story and aspects of it, your adult age...

Yes, but at higher levels, even the blocks they make against power loops come close to being at the same level of demands on the rubber as powerlooping an incoming loop. At this point, the fairy just waves the magic wand and the block works. While when you block, the fairy just smiles and say...

Bottoming out is a form of spin loss. So you have to place the statement in its proper context. All things being equal, thicker sponge allows you to swing harder and still get spin. So some people consider that "more spin". When you are at the top level and using spin to manipulate extremely...

There is thin and long vs. thin and short vs. thick and long vs. thick and short (I am sure some of these might be illegal in long/short pips). The pips of T25 and thick and short (extremely hard to deform). The pips of T05 are thin and short. The pips of T64 are thin and long. My guess is...

Ah, okay. Yeah, at that level, on serve return especially, they get pretty good at withholding such information. But a huge part of that is their choice of grip for those kinds of strokes as some grips don't give you that flexibility. Good luck with figuring that out on video analysis.

This is good and very important, but it can also be dangerous if you think that people are always consciously doing those things. Some of the larger changes are trained (grip switches), but things like opening the paddle might just be the natural outcome of the swing trajectory or an...

I played quite a bit as a kid even if I had no clue what proper technique was. I did have an idea of how to hold a racket, even if not all the nuances that I coach now. This was in Nigeria and we didn't always play on proper tables, even though my family had a table. We sometimes played on...

This is not completely true, though it has some validity, and was more valid before the development of modern backhand techniques. Like you said, the problem is that you cannot change direction with a weak ball and that the forehand is generally more powerful than the backhand. That said, a...

Lily is about 1.5 hours from me so I need to know the specific day he plans to be there and whether I will be there. If he goes on Friday night for their league, then I can try to make that.

This is one of the easier ones but still spectacular and shows how focused the pros are on the ball. From 0:24.

Sports psychologists recommend such things to you, especially if you can do it with your own matches/points.

That's an important but simplified part of a very complex story that would take too long to tell... My answer would be more along the lines of once you have strokes and feeling that can control the ball, and you can move to the ball in balance, and you are able to read the ball better, you are...

Ovtcharov hits the ball as hard as anyone in the world.