During high school, I went from being a really mediocre player to getting Division I offers mostly by doing just three things. The first thing, I have posted about before. I used to have a dog, a sheltie. I would take him down to the beach, especially in the off season, when there were few or no people around and run after him, much like Rocky did with the chicken. This helped out my court coverage immensely. A lot of people who would see me play would say that I had the best court coverage they had ever seen. It wasn't natural.
The second thing I did was go to my elementary school and hit against a brick wall for hours. There is some downside to this and that is since the ball comes back so fast, it will affect your follow through and cause you to have a sloppy finish on your strokes. Regardless, this was huge and completely improved the way I hit the ball. The school basically had a high, solid, brick wall with blacktop on the ground and tons of room to hit long drives. Often, I will see hitting walls without sufficient space between the wall and the fence. The wall at the school was the best I have seen. I also used to get close to the wall and work on both forehand and backhand volleys. My straight right hand punch really strengthened my volleys. If you spend a lot of time hitting against a wall, you also need to spend a lot of time on the court as you can see how high on the wall you are hitting to ensure that your shots will go over the net, but you can't tell how deep your shots will be. If you spend all of your time hitting against a wall, then go play competitive matches, you will find a lot of your shots sailing. I would seriously piss of most of the faculty and administration at that school by hitting against the wall all of the time. The two most athletic male teachers, both former successful college athletes, were perfectly fine with me doing that and always came up to me, said hi, and talked to me. Luckily, the police were never called. They wouldn't be able to do much anyway.
The third thing is just serving tons of balls into an open court. You can be a great player without having your serve as a weapon, but if your serve is a liability, you will have serious problems, either in the form of frequent double faults or your opponent simply crushing your serve, especially your second serve.
Quote: (06-26-2016 11:18 AM)waterWater Wrote:
Lots of beautiful girls play college tennis and a lot of beautiful milfs play at the local tennis clubs.
If I ever buy a house, I definitely plan to have a tennis court in the yard and will invite tons of girls over to play tennis.