when it comes to tennis the number one thing is consistency do you know what I'm
saying I know you have to have consistency that encompasses a lot of different things in tennis
well what about my
elbow injury for a month and then ankle injury for another month or two
uh something else wait a minute what you have your elbow your elbow hurts
I haven't played because of my ankle
and I was super busy with competition so didn't play so consistency you have to really dedicate
yourself to it you do I have lapses of time where I don't yeah dedicate myself to it I get it yeah
well you you're talking about consistency of actually training I'm talking about consistency
of your shots having the ability to keep the ball in play and go back and forth I want to like to
get to a level where we can consistently exchange rallies that are 10 plus meaning 10 times in a row
now this might sound simple as an easy task but consistency in tennis
encompasses everything it encompasses your ball recognition your intensity your footwork
your stroke mechanics everything is encompassed if you want to be consistent and playing with
the right technique of course you can stand there and like push the ball and and steer
it and get 10 in a row that's not what I want I don't want you to hit it with decent pace and not
miss and that is one of the most challenging things about tennis and that's what I would
like to work with you today but General that's always one of my objectives and our lessons is
to work on consistency and then of course if I see technical flaws I will correct them instantly Anna
A lot of my forehand balls are going out.
what
one of the coaches that was watching me
what coaches
I don't know some guy, his son was playing
the next court
and he told me that I have to do something with the wrist. My wrist is not doing that.
that's why my balls are flying out of the Court so I don't know. I'm doing it
this side like that you're doing something with the wrist you're doing this I should be
doing this with the wrist and that's going to help what to get them inside of the court on
the other side interesting what was the reasoning for that do you want to supposed to be using your
wrists right at the contact right here so some I don't know like it's something there anna are you
taking a lesson with this guy no are you sure I promise you and you're not cheating right no oh
no okay all right not anymore not anymore what oh you did okay well I forgive you it's okay listen
um yeah I don't know what this guy meant by that but what happens on some guys
and girls okay guys I mean both what happens on some players is the following look
they come through here and now some will go like this and others will go like this so they'll break
the wrist here a little bit but that's like well after the ball's already left the racket
so it's irrelevant now if this something that feels good for you here but that in itself not
going to have any effect on the stroke itself okay not gonna do anything the ball is already long the
left the strings right but we already do semi Western grip because of course yes there could
be many other reasons why it's going out okay I'm going to do a deep examination of your issues but
this guy and I don't know what he meant but what I'm assuming that he meant he wants
you to use the wrist to help the ball spin more and therefore go into court more so he wants you
to go like this most likely I don't know because I'm I'm guessing but you don't want to do this
you don't want to use the wrist we talked about this many times you'd abruptly shorten the
stroke you have a higher chance of framing you lose a ton of power and the risk of injury increases
drastically when you try to use the wrist also if you are someone that doesn't do this naturally
here by you trying to snap the wrist at the very end this might cause some wrist issues
as well now you already had tennis elbow which we healed successfully we don't want to put too much
pressure here and start you know straining this part of the arm don't do that finish clean look
we already talked about the Finish you want to be right here right yeah clean finish and now let me
take a look at your forehand see why they're going long how far long are they going to go
into the fence or they're going just a little bit out out a little bit how much oh not much
that's not too bad okay okay because I always say look at look if you hit the ball straight into the
fence that's what I call a catastrophic error now there's a catastrophe on your hands you understand
hitting the straight into the fence oh no it doesn't do that okay or if it goes
very far like two three meters that's a catastrophic error there's some humongous
technical flaw on your forehand it could be many different things but there's something
really really wrong if it's missing about this much or if it's missing about this much
they might not necessarily be anything wrong with your Technique it might be shot selection
it might be the fact that you are overhitting a little bit not putting enough spin it could
be some of those things a little bit of timing maybe small errors that is my guess
but let me check okay go right here and hit a few Anna this is one of the most beautiful
days I've ever seen in my life there's no wind perfect temperature perfect day to play tennis
okay do it again
Anna these are looking crisp another one good
Anna yeah I'm glad that happened that's what I call a catastrophic error you saw where ball
landed straight into the fence now you're laughing but it's actually not funny you know why because
you know what you did you snapped at the ball like this here's the ball look all right here's
the face of the ball it says penn right here okay you come at that ball and you slap it like this
It's Gonna Fly Like Crazy you have to come at the ball and caress think about caressing it
so with that mental image in mind when you come over it you don't want to slap it like this and
and do this but more caress the ball this way so keep keep this angle of your hand and the racket for a
while after making contact you want to go around and you're going to rotate all that it's true
but don't like go like this and slap the ball is going to respond by shooting very far with very
little control so you come over it like this so if you look at the pros no matter how much
spin they're putting the tip of the racket is always pointing towards that side shortly after
contact which is an indicator that they keep this part very stable shortly after contact
yeah so if you if you change this angle if you go like this or like this the wrist right at contact
results in a disaster okay okay that for example wasn't that bad of a Miss like it hit it pretty
clean it still went out so there might have been some small things there maybe you went
a little bit too much like this but not for full release maybe just a little little slap you know
okay there's a push so that's a completely different scenario you won't see the ball
going to the fence but you see it go long a lot if you slow down in here and you start pushing
forward that'll make the ball a little what I call steering you'll steer the ball long
okay very little rotations on the ball it's just a it's a slow push
the ball will go out not by that far but it's going to be hard
yeah so these things happen and yeah it's part of tennis so you're going to run into these uh
issues and there's a matter of you having the ability to know what happened and correct it
when you're by yourself when you don't have me and also you're feeding it perfectly for me so
well I'm going to be I'm going to be rallying with you in a minute and we'll we'll check again
but it's a matter of you self-correcting when you're playing Anna that was clean come again
maybe the best one so far let me go on the other side we'll hit
that was not topspin, that was just
well it wasn't a heavy topspin but don't worry about that
right over there well you look at the you look at the flight path of the ball
which is not directly correlated to topspin by the way so ball can have
different shape it can go a little higher over the net we can go a little bit more
shallow over the net you can still hit with topspin even though the ball goes shallow
don't worry about that other than trying to go up
at the ball right when you meet the ball if you go up and continue to go up here
to this side your ball will have topspin whether it's going to be super heavy Top Spin that's
going to depend if you make the ball go too high over the net you can get too spinny
so if you're too vertical here if you go straight up like this that can turn into like a Top Spin
lob and the ball all of a sudden goes too high has a lot of spin but it loses some of its penetration
so don't worry too much about net height yes you want to have decent net height but it also
shouldn't be way too high over the net okay okay because then you lose penetration all right so let
me go over there and we're gonna test to see what the forehand looks like you stand right here
good try try
don't slap
stay on your toes keep your feet moving a little bit more right yeah like
don't don't be flat-footed in between the shots like move more between the
shots stay on your toes and really focus on tracking the ball and finding it better
from here I want you to confidently swing to here don't be scared in here don't steer
so a lot of times you're still being careful here you're pushing through like this you're
steering the racket face still has a tendency to open up confidently finish here right here
anna you did 10 in a row very nice
good Anna
yeah positioning throws me off a lot especially the short balls I think
I think you don't see them so let's finish off with some clean forehands I
want you to go cross Court you stay right there ready position
Alright listen this is the thing about tennis yes it's easy to just do a couple of good shots but what if we
have to get consecutive good shots that's the next step in the program when I'm hand feeding
you you do a really good job your forehand looks very clean but when I do live ball with you
at the net man it's harder listening by hand feeding like literally but anyway when I'm at
the net or at the Baseline all of a sudden it's live ball more unpredictable you struggle why
do you struggle your ball recognition is bad why has your ball recognition been kind of stuck and
Halted and not really getting that much better yeah because your Readiness or your intensity
is lacking a lot of times you're still stuck standing around you're standing around your
heels remember what I told you a gazillion times intensity stay on your toes keep your feet moving
we still got work to do we're doing good but we got to keep improving okay