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Pickleball, no. Padel, yes. The growth rate of viewership, prize money, and sponsorship money is very high in padel. Lots of pro padel matches have live crowds of thousands in Europe. Lots of padel players aren't even going to be playing or watching tennis; they'll be watching padel instead. I would absolutely wat... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
The growth rate of the bakery that opened down the road is higher than Apple's but this doesn't mean that the bakery will ever surpass Apple's market cap.
What padel players will watch or what tennis players will watch doesn't matter because 99.9% of the population is neither a padel nor a tennis player. What matters ... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
They're watching the hell out of it in Europe and it's just getting started. World Padel Tour events can be watched on TV in 125 different countries. I have no interest in tennis doubles... but I watch padel. It's just more exciting. But to each their own. I have no interest in pickleball but I'm betting you're on... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Yep that’s what all the padel people keep saying. We shall see I guess. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
It's like skiing vs snowboarding skiing is easy and you'll be going down slopes being mediocre fairly quickly, but you will stagnate quickly. Snowboarding is harder to learn but once you get a hang of it you will continue to develop and at least in my opinion have a lot more fun over the years.
I would never disco... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Padel came and went here. It was huge during the pandemic but now it's mostly in the news for another bacruosy and another Padel center closing down. A few years ago I talked to people about the fad and they were convinced they would never stop playing that the sport would grow and become larger than many other sports,... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Yeah but every sport is hard at the beggining. Football for instance, is really hard to learn and start with. But it is insanely accessible unlike tennis, which is the very thing I believe should be worked on by the stakeholders.
Please don't discourage people from playing the sport we love. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
So your records are safe... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Nah. Its not that. I am old enough to not give a fuck anymore.
But honestly I just think PB is just a pretty fun game, especially when played well. I just dont get the hatred which really does seem to me often to be an almost jets vs sharks type thing
And because I am looking out for myself I am always trying to ... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
All great hobbies take a lot of time to master.
Perhaps the current issue today is some youngsters just cannot accept or understand it’s impossible to obtain instant results.
Learning the guitar is so similar.It takes years to learn how to play chords and that’s only the left hand.We haven’t mentioned the right hand an... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Can someone summarize I don’t understand what’s going on. What is the soccer game he mentioned at beginning and why’s it important? | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
I think eventually a lot of people who got into pickleball or padel would want to give tennis a try because they start seeing big events on TV, or simply think they have an introduction to a racquet sport now they want to try something more. Pickleball has a lot of older folks, if they weren’t trying tennis, it probabl... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
What about squash?
Is it dead? | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
This is the exact reason squash has been on a steady decline since the 80s | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Space is a major problem with tennis. USTA needs to come up with vertical indoor tennis courts. Developers are swooping every open space in cities to build over priced apartments and townhomes. Indoor tennis courts need to become cheaper.
I cannot imagine my life without tennis. I’d probably be in a mental institutio... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Most club level tennis players in US are self taught, many stop before they become good, those who stick around eventually develop many bad habits to become proficient at the game. We need more role models for the younger generation to follow and to take the sport seriously. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Tennis is growing. Padel & pickle do not threaten tennis at the club or any other level. Tennis remains the king of racquet sports be most tennis clubs rely on lessons as their chief revenue source. There are lots of people taking lots of lessons at every tennis club, every day.
Group + Private Lessons, Match Play Rou... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
He’s right. Technique is dead, and the combo of poly strings and huge sweet spots helped kill it. (If you’ve played 3.5-4.5 tennis in the last decade, you know exactly what I mean. People can barely rally, but the racquets are just forgiving enough to let them keep taking huge swipes at the ball.) Wanna improve by hit... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-10-07 |
Bingo. This is true for so many sports. You get better by having more people playing. This means you need lowcost ways to get involved as a kid, so then the good ones get cherry picked for coaching. Instead for so many sports unless you have a hyper involved parent, you don't have a prayer. You can't just drop your kid... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-10-07 |
The biggest obstacle in my country (UK) is accessibility. Given the weather, indoor courts are essential but my club costs £150pm just to be a member. Then there’s another £150+ to buy a decent racket, £25 for strings 3/4 times per year, grips, balls another £5 per match. And that’s before forking out another £30-50 pe... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-10-07 |
And that’s the key at grassroots. All sports are challenging at the elite level but some, like football for instance, can be played in some form almost immediately. My one year old can kick a ball back and forth with me but there’s no way he can play tennis. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-10-07 |
Agreed. I think, more than almost any other sport, tennis sucks at beginner and even improver level. Then you get to advanced level and it sucks because you’re up against insanely good players.
Personally I loved tennis as an intermediate, when I was playing good but not great players and games were competitive. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-10-07 |
Padel is less of a threat as it suffers from many of the same issues as tennis cost wise. Pickleball is what will kill tennis off. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-10-07 |
Disagree. Padel is a much better sport than pickleball but the problem is that courts are more expensive to build and to hire. Pickleball is a greater threat because it can be played on converted tennis courts, costing far less and yet still has the same accessibility. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-10-07 |
Hard disagree. The most popular sports in the world are those with low barriers to entry. Football (soccer) being the main example of this. You barely need any equipment to play it. Padel courts are expensive to build and hire, meaning working class masses will be locked out just as they are from tennis. Pickleball is ... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-10-07 |
Which is a shame. Personally I think doubles tennis is better to watch. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-10-07 |
For most people it isn't because you can't as easily tell what's going on. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-10-07 |
I don't know, I feel like this is partially the responsibility of the player??? I started playing tennis just over two years ago and have worked hard on developing proper technique (via recording myself and 3 total private lessons) and have a UTR hovering around 8.5 now. I legitimately enjoy the process of improving my... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-10-07 |
We’re not communicating: I have trouble finding players who have decent or good technique. USTA and similar organizations do little to nothing to help players once they reach a certain level. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-10-07 |
Where in the world are you? | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-13-07 |
For context, I'm mid-twenties and a big tennis fan but I've never played. I just bought my first racquet and am about to try learning from scratch.
With other hobbies I’ve had, there are always things I wish I’d done differently from the start. It could be ways of practicing/learning that would’ve made progress easier... | r/10s | post | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Be mentally prepared before playing. I had all the shots, and if I was mentally ready and willing I could’ve beat most people. I just didn’t want it. I didn’t have the hunger for winning like I do now. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
keep moving your feet all the time, start with continental grip on serve right away. Prioritize technique over result/outcome.
Don't muscle or arm the ball. Look at how well trained 8 years old play.
If you are hitting with other beginners and struggling to sustain a rally, consider doing hand feeds to each other wit... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
if you’re able to, lessons. i spent so long mindlessly hitting with no technique and it hindered my progress. also, use a thbh (kidding i am a ohbh user til i die) | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Do not try to rally or play match with people until I had proper swing mechanics. It takes years to get rid of the bad habits. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Knowing how important it is to be on toes when hitting. Haven,t heard this tip until i played against a coach | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
in no particular order... join a club, train your legs, get coaching, don't do dodgey calls | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Get some thick socks and comfy shoes, foot blisters are the worst thing ever.
Be less stubborn about technical options. I did platform service for ages, only to discover pinpoint felt way nicer. Same goes for the backhand, give both styles a go.
Spend more time inside the lines. Bashing from behind the b... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Unless you play on clay | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Even on clay, balance is important but toes need to be there
Also the semi squat or bent knees position should be applied all the time and not just when returning a serve, many are usually just straight up | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I wish I knew tennis was completely solved in the 1970s from a biomechanics standpoint and that all information is available through just a couple of sources that aren’t popularized anymore because it doesn’t make sense for information peddlers to have an informed viewership.
That means almost everything on YouTube in... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
"prioritize technique over result/outcome" is the best advice anyone can give but if you're highly competitive is the hardest to follow | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I agree with everything here. The only thing I’ll add some context to the prioritizing technique over outcomes.
You do this for a period of time, then you have to prioritize outcomes over technique as you begin your match play. Then again over time, you’ll need to improve technique again and so on. It’s a constant se... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Honestly, I wish I had started much sooner with dedicated private lessons. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Master the basics. You nailed it when it comes to grip. Learn the different grips. Understand how grip determines the racquet face which then determines your racquet path. Might not be a bad idea to start off with at least a couple lessons so as you said you don't start repping bad habits. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Like anything, find a good teacher. Not all teachers are good. For adults, some teachers may focus more on exercise than technique because the truth is many adults play for exercise and don’t want to grind to build good technique.
For lessons, go private and 1-1 if possible. While it’s the most expensive, it’s really... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Split step | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Continental grip and swing mechanics. Those two things will make you loads better even if you’re out of shape. Clean shots makes tennis loads easier and funner | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I wish the modern-day forehand was taught when I first started playing back in the day. Using a semi-western grip vs. continental feels and works so much more efficiently. Hitting the ball out front vs. from the side works better, too. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I wish I was less serious about the game. I wish I just enjoyed the game in my youth. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I would do three things - not necessarily all different from what I did, but I'd do these three things.
One, hit hard (when practicing). With proper technique, of course, but hard. It's the ~~easiest~~ only way to learn proper mechanics.
Two, practice the serve. Even better if you have a friend with whom to do serve... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Started earlier in life, was healthier, had better conditioning, take it more seriously. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
To hold the racquet loose at the wrist. I got used to holding it too tight, and now holding it loose is a forced thought. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Not taken a lot of group drills. There is a big social pressure to “just keep the ball in” to continue the drill for everyone. Led to me being extremely nervous and tight which led to pushing. Taken a long time to try and overcome this. And there was little to no individual technique tips by the “pros”. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Great advice here. I’m 51yo and returning to tennis after ~30 years of playing a couple of times a year at most.
I’m currently having 1:2 lessons with a mate of mine and a great coach. Initially my mate had organised private lessons, and then asked if I wanted to join. I said yes, and within a week or two realised th... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I wish I had started playing earlier. I’m 36 and two lessons in, and I’m hooked. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Yup. Grew up as a young lad with a slice back hand, should have developed a 2 hander. I developed a solid topspin one hander eventually that I was able to play with it at a high level in high school but not the highest, and when I tried to walk on in college, it was a huge huge huge liability I would just get pushed ar... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
2 handed back hand instead of primarily slice and a decent but not that great topspin backhand | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Same thing here, it took me years to develop a decent backhand (and I'm still struggling with it) because slicing allowed me to win games at a lower level, but when you want to take the next step that's not enough. If you want to stay a 4.0/4.5 forever be my guest, otherwise you need to lose games while developing prop... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I wish I had learned that gut strings would prevent my shoulder and elbow injuries, and that I could play all the time if I had the right setup. I only played a little here and there for many years because of my shoulder, always thinking I was one serve away from hurting it again. I missed a lot of time doing something... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I haven’t read/seen what you’re linking to, but “tennis was completely solved in the 1970s from a biomechanics standpoint” strikes me as just plain wrong. The mechanics of the modern forehand and backhand look completely different than those of Bjorg, McEnroe, Conners, Navratilova, Evert, etc. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
“Solved in the 1970s” is a surprising take to me given how much tennis ground stroke technique has changed (largely due to equipment advances), particularly on the forehand side, since then. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Oh yeah I forgot that i'm an idiot. HUGE advancements in TECHNOLOGY really change how biomechanics works!
[Link 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHfU2kft3-Q)
[Link 2](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgjd5o)
If you think going from Wood to Aluminum to Boron/Magnesium to Ceramic to Graphite to Composites to Fiber... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Split step. Also, when I took lessons as a kid they did not teach the proper grips. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I’ve spent so much time trying to learn 2hbh but my mind just cant wrap itself around it. I think from learning 1hbh in table tennis its the only way i know how | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Buy a set of "green dot" balls and use them for rally practice. They bounce slower so you can focus on good form, rather than being rushed and simply turning into a "retriever" instead of a tennis player.
When your footwork and unit turns looks good, graduate to regular balls. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
It takes 10x more reps to break a bad habit than to commit a good one to your muscle memory. Start slow and focus on your technique. Take videos and compare to pros or other technically solid players you may know.
I had a coach in hs who would have us go into the gym on rainy days instead of cancelling practice. We w... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Nobody called you an idiot - I’m happy to discuss differing perspectives without resorting to ad hominem - but thanks for the video links giving some information on your meaning.
I recognize the overlap in Borg’s forehand and a “modern” forehand like Federer’s - and almost all pro-level forehands have some things in ... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
This is horrible advice. Match play isn't about pretty swings, it's about solving problems. You do what you can to get the ball over to the other side, preferably so that the person on that side can't get it back.
I honestly don't think you can learn bad habits when playing a match. It's an oxymoron. How can you lear... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I would've insisted on learning how to serve the correct way (using the proper grip especially!). | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
i don’t have the table tennis experience, but that’s how it was for me too. i tried to use a thbh when i started, seeing as it’s more reliable especially for rec players, but i just could not get it down. to be fair it probably had something to do with lack of lessons, but i’m too far deep into the ohbh now lol. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Since others have mentioned technique, I thought I would provide an opinion to weigh technique less:
I would say that play based method which is the modern teaching philosophy is the anti-of "perfect mechanic" tennis.
Yes you need a base, but it focuses on what you do with the ball, more than how you do it.
Especial... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
How force is generated and imparted to the tennis ball using body segments and the different grips has been solved for since the 70s with the advent of kinematics.
What do I mean by solved for? There have been models of exactly how much force is generated or lost by each individual segment on the human body based o... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Really spend more time on learning the correct technique on serve and also practice more of serving | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I wish I hadn't worried so much about what was "optimal". I changed my technique so many times and it never really improved anything. I would've been further ahead just sticking to something and practicing more.
Get a good coach or YouTube channel or two (if that is your only option) and follow what they say. Having 9... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Probably be 5 instead of 14 | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
If you are mid twenties and live in the states especially Florida you should play pickleball instead. Easier access to courts and open play and you will have 150 people in your phone with last name “pickleball” in two months. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Wish I'd have started 15yrs ago instead of thinking it's dumb. I'm hopelessly hooked now. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I would have gotten private coaching. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Actually funny you say this because I agree it is excellent advice, but in my case, my competitiveness manifested differently. I focused on improving all aspects of my game, often to the detriment of winning single points or matches. I was optimizing for a higher skill ceiling. I didn't want to cap at rec level, and my... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
warm up before you play, stretch after.
Actually warm up, run around MOVE your legs. How well you move is how well you play and you do not want to get injured | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Yeah any grinder has many stories of beating guys who have superior technique but can’t win. Have to learn it all. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Well, shit. I'm starting out and am incredibly stubborn to stick to learning a 1HBH. To my credit though, I'm actually hitting it with top spin better than I thought, it's coming along better than my forehand. In fact, it's my winning shot lmao. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Played padel for a couple of years, started my tennis journey last week and I simply could not understand the 2 hander. It felt weird when I tried and came so flat. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Learn and get comfortable with continental grip. For two years I was using a forehand grip to serve and now it’s night and day | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Get proper advice on the right racquet and string combination. When you are ill-advised and you thought you can play like Rafa using Pure Aero strung with RPM Blast at 55lbs - combined with poor technique - perfect recipe for arm disaster! | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
learn some decent technique, and start serving with continental grip. these are both long term investments | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Have you extensively practiced off hand forehands? 90 percent of the shot comes from the off hand and that's what helped me I think. I also don't have a big 2hbh but I pride myself on hardly ever being the one that loses or ends a bh-bh cross court rally, so I don't go for much and tend to treat that side as a defensiv... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I wish I'd started playing 20 years earlier. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Cool yeah I must not know what i'm talking about | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Be strategic in your progress/goals - if I’d have done it differently, I’d have focused first on the main elements of technique that improve your margin of error:
1.) footwork - getting your body to where it meets the incoming ball at your strike zone - this will involve moving more up/back than is intuitive. Most pla... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
This has 100% been the story of my recreational career. In the early 20’s in my 20’s and very fit, I could hide the backhand well enough with speed, running around forehands, quickness at the net and just holding service games, also people weren’t as good back then and I could go about 50/50 in 5.0 leagues, obviously n... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I still struggle with this myself. I wish I had more lessons starting out. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Regular Tennis specific conditioning exercises, especially for ankle strengthening. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
What a good question. Don’t wait (too much) to start serving and playing matches. Match play is different from hitting. Once you get a good feel of strokes from a coach, dive in.
Secondly, taking conditioning seriously and you will outlive 90% of players | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Took my first ever lessons when I was 12, didn't play again until almost 10 years later when I was in university, really wished I had kept playing, would probably have much better form and footwork | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I’ve been taking lessons and clinics after picking up tennis about 3 years ago during Covid.
It’s been incredibly trying to put this into practice. Especially since jumping into league play last summer.
It’s starting to pay off since my game looks exponentially more complete than my opponents in a 3.0 < x < 4.0 int... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
It really depends on what level you want to compete at. If you’re happy at topping out at 4.0-4.5, and you want to progress more quickly but with lower overall ceiling, it’s fine.
If you want to play at 5.0/opens usta level eventually, you’re going to be fighting an uphill battle with that one hander. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Different strokes for different folks. Your strokes and serve don’t need to look exactly like what you see on YouTube or on the tour. Like others have said, find a coach that is going to meet you where you’re at and help you develop your game. I have found that the best use of time with a coach is to work on 1 thing. D... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Start with footwork, serve, and return. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
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