and if you tell me if you want the shade there is no shade okay there is
there is shade as far as you want the sun in your face or behind you oh behind me you
want the sun behind you yeah like this that way you can preserve your beauty
exactly you don't want to get burned let me let me take all the heat okay how the impact okay
right in my face actually let me start you off on this side loosen you up a little bit okay
anna this is absolutely clean let's hit the a back and forth good
again good anna wow whoa beautiful work i want to do another match with you
you're against somebody match number two it's been exactly one year since you played your first match
nevertheless now it's it's time to shine because this is sudden death winner takes all anna oh
stop pressuring me like that all right here we go i'm just hyping you up a little bit okay come on we trained hard
for one year we had some setbacks remember your elbow that was caused by the wilson racket okay
we have a new grip and the babolat racquet healed you yes and some of the other methods that we did
but you're healed now absolutely pain-free you're not even using the sleeve the foot oh you got
a foot problem okay that's something all right but you know what i need to do the more serving
serving yes yeah we do the practice to serve but what i want to do today is for focus on your point
play so i do this thing with my students i call it point play coaching where the
and i give you tactical strategic and technical advice after each point okay okay let me serve
today next time we maybe do it on your serve and at the end afterwards we'll continue to work on
your serve a little bit but yeah let me serve first okay all right come on let's do this and i'm
gonna serve it like 3.0 2.5 3.0 level it's going to be very tap tap in and very soft so be ready
go again
anna i got a question for you come on up i got a question for you
why are you hitting everything right at me you got to make me run
into the corners open up the court um i don't think we learned anything strategic yet
we haven't but this is like so simple it's a simple strategy it takes not like no it's not
like chess or anything instead of hitting right down the center you open up the court a little bit
just hit where i'm not not at the line but just open the ball up a little bit because
you spend so much time trying to keep the ball in play hitting right at me was very good so
you'll actually learn directional control but now it's time to like open the court up
anna it's too good very strong nice
what do you think was wrong i mean the ball flew so fast but you see you
hit a backhand from the forehand side you got jammed
when the ball comes that way hit a forehand yes
wait a second wait a second what are you saying you're saying i could have got
that of course i was completely out of position there you saw me almost fell
oh that's how good your first forehand was you got completely like wrapped up you got me
you got me wrong footed like here we go come on keep going
oh lala no it was actually wide sorry i thought it was going in my bad
oh no anna no no no no no
we had a forehand grip though yeah remember the volley transformation in just 30 minutes
so far away i saw you like a pancake continental grip forehand volley easy money right there
the whole court open it's okay though it's okay we'll keep going
anna this is clean crisp was it yeah are you sure okay very nice angle very nice angle okay
very good i thought it maybe it was a little bit off the frame corner of the racket but it was good
let's sit down and take a little drink oh you mean the corner yeah it was kind of it wasn't
cool no you know what you hit it with it you hit it with a good swing path which a lot of
times will help the racket will help the ball go in even though you hit it don't hit it clean
when you apply a topspin swing path a lot of times even frame shots have a tendency to go in
yeah it's very hot today anna maybe the hottest weather i've seen this year what do you think
right now how does it feel true floridian me too how many years you've
been here huh how many years in florida yeah five six that's it i think so i've been here for um
longer than me 16. all the way in florida yeah oh wow
your skin care my skincare is exceptional yes you don't look like local that's good i don't
look like a local i wear long long pants sleeve i wear a neck shade hat but i've seen you
bundled up not when i'm teaching you though i'm embarrassed to show up like that i wear normal
what do you feel like it takes to look beautiful what do you feel like about playing point do you
like it is it fun it's fun right yeah especially with you i know you're like
i'm really playing me what are you talking about
i don't know it's all real right now the points you're winning are real i'm putting
myself down to 2.5 30 level right now i'm playing at that level i'm tapping the serve in i'm doing a
lot of hacky shots and we're having a real match so the points that you're winning are legitimate
i'm 100
100 legit
oh my god hot pasture posture there we go
we have been recorded
posture since you are not looking like a bomb you might as well keep your posture
you know put me out the pasture oh my goodness all right let's keep going okay we continue to
grind we continue to work we could we continue to work hard oh my god
anna come on up real quick that ball is dead by the way if you don't mind throw up on the in the
trash can on your way back but remember our volley lesson when i told you to wait for the okay
you wait for the volley like this do the same thing on the return don't wait on the forehand
because naturally the way you want to wait for a ball is the racket slightly this way you
remember why because if indeed a ball comes to your body you got a quick reaction here
this only serves the forehand doesn't serve anything else so i'm waiting like are you waiting
just wait like this the racket can be either pointing straight forward or slightly to the left
like that but don't put the racket here when you're waiting
because this only serves the forehand return so i'm like yeah okay
you were going coast to coast a little bit there alright listen there's gonna be situations where it's
like you're gonna be unsure what you do you come in or you do go back back to the baseline
so generally like if you play a short ball that's around the service line you have time to back up
if the ball is like here this close to the net i would say at least halfway between the net and
the service line you might as well stay at the net because you won't have enough time to back up to
the baseline so you might as well stay here at the net and play a volley okay all right here we go
oh i got caught wrong footed again nice job anna very good very good
a little bit long a little bit longer you know you didn't finish the backhand so you slightly
steered on it you slightly pushed it go ahead and finish it all the way it's going to go in
what do you mean still don't do it you know the backhand yeah no finishing when i feel like it's
going to fly out it's mental because you want to put it in the in a certain direction you
go to with your racket towards that direction it's what i call literal aiming the opposite of
intuitive aiming where you're actually aiming with the strings towards the target like this
instead of understanding that the angle of the racket face determines where the ball is
going to go and just doing your normal shot and you already know how to aim intuitively
you learned that like almost a year and a half ago so pick the spot in your now here we go
anna that's absolutely beautiful placement very nice
a nice court awareness that you saw the ball was there and you put it out of the way
that's actually my fault i should have alerted you and had the ball removed prior
to the rally starting completely my fault but great little angle there very nice very
you did good
anna too good too good but don't run into the net though you know that right but that was
amazing opening up the court you put me coast to coast east to west very nice it's fun right
and this is absolutely perfect placement right there nice work very good i like it a lot don't
finish i know i am playing very like you're playing a little bit tentative but that's
the thing that's the difference between playing just practicing and playing real points this is
the difference because you are free mentally when you're just practicing free it doesn't
matter if you miss as much so here it's completely different mindset that's why you're being a little
bit tentative but the more you do it the less you'll be tentative you start trusting your shots
and i can't believe you brought back that shot i thought we put it away forever
anna i don't i don't like i don't like it at all you see it's still intuitively coming out
this one yes okay two handed over it or why two hands though okay
interesting interesting
ah
this is insane now you did something insane what a rally
but you're too too rushed you're too like impatient there you took the ball very high
you can wait a little bit let the ball fall down because i
don't know if you noticed my backhand had a little bit more spin on it
top spin it was higher you saw that don't know and you took it high you don't have to take it high
you can back up a little bit or position yourself so that you take it lower if you take it early
that's tough but you can also take it below the apex and play it around here it's going to be more
comfortable for you well you took it at the apex that's why when it was coming from high it went
here yeah you took it down but it was like you should have you shouldn't if the angle
wasn't there to go like this you should stay with the ball a little bit more like that
very good anna nice work okay here last one match point anna match point here we go
wow what a return huh you like that one very good all right that's question if you like
i love it i think it was great and actually i saw that you created a little bit of space there
you were in a good distance there all right that's point play we got to do this a lot more
often because you have to prepare for the next match next next time we do points on
your serve okay a good job today nice work you definitely made me run i'm tired i need a break