hey guys in today's video i'm going to show you how to play with insane pinpoint accuracy
guys this is what insane pinpoint
accuracy looks like actually it doesn't look like that check out the real footage
come on man come on that stupid target ah come on so close so close again
And guys insane massive extreme crazy pinpoint accuracy or any other of the terms that are used to
describe how accurate professional tennis players are is one of the biggest fallacies in tennis and
i want you to remember one sentence nobody hits the line on purpose now here's one thing that i
want you to do i want you to go on youtube i'm going to put a link in my description and there
was a target practice at the australian open between federer and kyrgios and it was a big
a on the court for australian and a big o on the court for open and these were really really big
targets i would say they were about this high and it was first federer's turn to hit these targets
and then it was Kyrgios's turn and surprisingly once you check out this footage you will see what
i mean with my statement that it's a fallacy the fact that professional tennis players have insane
accuracy because federer and Krygios were missing a ton of targets yes they did hit some but they also
missed a ton of them i would say they missed more than they made and we're talking about federer
here maybe one of the most accurate players of all time so my point with this video is to describe
that aiming in tennis is something that's extremely difficult oh now the easiest shot to aim
in tennis is the serve because we are closer to the target and then it's followed by the overhead
and then by the volleys and lastly come the ground strokes and why are the ground
strokes so hard to aim because over the length of the court it is the farthest distance from the
contact point until the ball has landed on the other side so that long distance in the court
makes it very difficult to aim now many people believe that federer is able to hit the ball
on the spot exactly where he wants to but that is not the case professional tennis players aim for
a general target then they're really good at doing so and here's what i mean by big general target
so let's say the player is going cross-court now that player will maybe aim for three segments of
that part of the court so the first segment might be somewhere around here so the player might be
aiming for a general target but right here then we take the second segment which is going from here
to here and then the third segment of the cross-court shot which is from the middle
of the court to here a player is able to pretty accurately go to each one of those segments so
let me try to demonstrate i'm going to aim for the first segment the one closest to the doubles
line let's see if i can make it so that was pretty close now i'm going to go for the second segment
that was pretty close too even though i might have missed that one a little bit and now for
the third segment and i made that one so that is the general area that players are aiming for
when it comes to pinpoint accuracy in other words hitting the line for example that is an absolute
impossibility and the reason i say line shots are always accidental because players are not aiming
for the line they're actually aiming inside the line now they might be going close to the line but
nobody is aiming directly on the line because with the speed of the ground strokes over the length
of the entire baseline that is almost impossible to do even on the serve where we have a closer
target and aiming is a little bit easier it's still close to impossible to serve the ball
exactly on the line if the ball happens to come on the line that is happening by accident now we
as players would never admit that we're going to pump our fist and say come on
because we deserve to win the point the ball was in after all even though we might have been aiming
actually more inside the line now why did i make this video i think it's a very important subject
especially for the recreational level where players are sometimes trying to be a little
bit too accurate so the biggest target that you can aim for in tennis is the middle of the court
there's a lot of advantages of trying to go down the middle especially if you have been missing a
lot in your practice or your match once you make a lot of shots straight through the middle of the
court now your confidence is going to grow and you can start opening up the court a little bit also
when you aim through the middle and you slightly mishit the ball let's say you take it a little bit
too early or a little bit too late now the ball is still going to go inside the court as opposed
to when you aim for the line you hit the ball a little bit late that ball is guaranteed to go out
now when it comes to going cross court and down the line at the recreational level i would split
the court up in two segments on each side the total of four segments so up to here we're gonna
have segment number A then from here to the middle record we're gonna have segment number b
from the middle of the net to the middle of this side of the court is going to be c
and then this part of the court is going to be d and i want you to try to aim according to
your level so if you are more of a entry level or even intermediate level player i want you to stay
fairly close to the middle of the court as your level goes up now you can start spreading the ball
more around the court and going for the segments a and d however even at the advanced recreational
level if you're going for a and d and you're missing now it's time to start getting that ball
closer towards the middle and aiming for b and c and remember the bigger your target the better
your outcome is going to be because even at the elite level when we aim for a big target and we
then mishit the ball which happens all the time to all players even roger federer we still have
the chance for the ball to go in if we constantly aiming for small targets that is not sustainable
over the course of a long match eventually you're going to start making a lot of mistakes because
it is impossible to hit small targets over long periods of time now how about the serve here is
going to be the same thing if you're an entry level or an immediate player there's nothing
wrong with aiming directly in the middle of the box and now what's going to happen sometimes
you're going to miss hit the ball and it's going to start going towards t and out wide now you
don't have to admit this to anyone but it's going to look like a good serve but it's a big mishit
and you're going to be in great shape because if you would have aimed for the T or out wide you would
have definitely missed that serve now for the advanced recreational level i'm going to tell
you what the highest percentage serves are so the highest percentage serve for right-handed players
on the deuce side is going to be the out wide serve this one is going to have a tendency
to go in more than if you're aiming towards the t now this might sound a little weird because the
net is a little bit higher out wide so one would think that going through the middle over the low
part of the net would be the high percentage serve but that is not the case simply because
the length towards the target is a lot longer when we go out wide and therefore we have a
little bit more room for error the target is closer when we go down the t the same goes for
right-handed players who like to go up to t on this side this is a lower percentage serve than
when we go out wide for the simple reason that the target out wide is a little bit further away
and it gives us a tad more room for error now this doesn't mean that you should never go
down the T you definitely should but you have to calibrate it in such a way where
the percentage of your servers are going wide a little bit higher than the percentages of
your serves that are going through the T also it highly depends on what type of serve
you're attempting obviously the flat serve is the one that's going to give you the least percentage
the one that comes after that is a slice serve and a kick serve is going to be your highest percentage
serve now what about target practice is this a bad idea because we are after all practicing pinpoint
accuracy and not at all practicing hitting targets is something that is going to be an excellent way
to develop directional control in tennis and here's the reason why number one you're gonna
realize how difficult it is to hit one of these targets but also you're gonna have this ambition
to hit the target you're gonna have this negative feeling when you don't get the target you're gonna
get frustrated in the meantime you're gonna be hitting a lot of great shots so the ball might
not necessarily hit the target but it's going to be in a very close vicinity of the target
and you're going to be hitting a lot of great shots in the process so guys forget the idea
of pinpoint accuracy and select big targets and you're going to become a better tennis player