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In, and it’s not even close. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Looks in but the resolution is terrible. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Probably in but missing the crucial frames. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
On the return? The serve might have been the most in serve of all time. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
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In. Like very much not close. Looks \~3 ball widths inside the line. Watch the shadow re-appear after the bounce and you can see it's still in the box on the way back up. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
In | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Could go either way. Not enough frames, but leaning in. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
In | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
I need help, Ik it’s a stupid decision to come here but I’ve trialed both of the racquets, love both of them but I’m currently on a old Graphene 360+ speed and need an update, ik the speed and radical are both basically opposite sides of the spectrum and the beams and construction and stiffness is sooo different but I ... | r/10s | post | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
I hit with the Head Prestige MP with the 93” head for the longest. My shoulder and elbow eventually couldn’t take, but I tried the radical MP and that feels like the deadest racket I’ve ever hit with in my life. Was not a fan of it at all. Never tried the Speed, but I ended up with the Head Instinct MP and it has been ... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
I have a 360+ (MP) as well and I’m thinking of finally upgrading to the newest version as well. Curious what you end up deciding. My only other debate was going with the pro, but I just add weight to mine to gap a little bit. I’ve never had an 18 x 20 racket though. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
I don’t think they are on opposite sides of the spectrum. Radical skews more towards the control side with 98” and tighter string pattern (both 16x19 but on the radical the holes “don’t go up as far”).
Speed has the more forgiving and larger sweet spot, but the radical feels more accurate when you do hit the center.
... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Did you have a chance to demo under pressure?
I find i love maneuverable rackets when I play against weaker opponents but prefer a more forgiving frame when under more pressure.
You could also split the difference and go gravity MP which is my personal favorite racket on the market currently. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Speed, easily. More forgiving, better for the kind of game you play and the latest model has great specs without customisation. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-13-07 |
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Hello from Serbia, my friend! I will talk in english, so others can understand. I think you are better off buying a racket in a chinese shop, as they are the same quality, but 5 times cheaper. There is a reasonable chance that they are even made in the same factory. With these choices you are just paying for brand name... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Rackets in general have gone up in price compared to a few years ago. However as a beginner I believe you should mainly be focusing on your skills, and any racket you prefer that feels good to you will be more than enough. Best case, see if a nearby tennis shop may have some rackets to demo.
An expensive racket can de... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
I’d go with a used premium model before going for a lower end model. The tech hasn’t changed much in 25 years. Graphite does go ‘dead’ but it’s not really a serious consideration. Or just find something on a discount. Tennispoint have the Dunlop sx 280 which is a nice graphite racket around the same price as the ones y... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Alright, thanks for the advice! This is from a local shop so a demo is due. RE: weight — should I go lighter as a beginner or get a heavier racket right off the bat? | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
buy babolat yellow. no questions asked. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
None of these. As someone who has played for a long time and recently introduced my wife to the game, I have done a lot of research on the best “beginner” racquets. The constant recommendation is to just get a lighter version of an already premium racquet. If you want to buy a better racquet used, that’s ok too. But I’... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
As a beginner 270-290 grams shall be good | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Yonex ezone 100 L | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Also a fair point. I belong to the Babolat Pure Drive 100 club, and the Boost and Team options still seem to maintain a lot of the tech in a very affordable package. A lot depends on OP’s budget and their goal in tennis. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
For sure! | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
They all suck, but out of these I'd go babolat. Head and Wilson make some pretty terrible beginner rackets | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Previous replies are good. My big advice is stay away from the Head Titanium rackets. They’re designed for elderly players who can’t generate any power but somehow beginners constantly show up with those rackets. Terrible choice!! | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
buy a cheap used 10euro racket, save your money for when youre playing good or buy any racket is the same | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
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If you can, try Tecnifibre X One. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Best advise is to try all 3. Different balls behave differently in different court/weather conditions.
Artengo comfort pro is a premium ball for a really good price.
Babolat gold all court is a solid ball. Not sure about the championship one. I like the babolat team balls. They seem to last a while, and play solid. I... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
I have tried keeping my left arm straight like Federer as a tip but that just makes me not flow into the shot. Plus I don’t see everyone doing it, for example e.g. Alcaraz so this might not be a fundamental thing?
I tend to mainly hit flat which I enjoy more and feel most comfortable with. When I want to use topspin ... | r/10s | post | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
The answer is your feet. (In reality in tennis, the answer is usually your feet) | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Ok and what do I need to do with my feet? Any drill to make sure I can always have enough space? In this video I was just practicing hitting with an open stance. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
I'm not an expert but it looks like two things might be causing you to get jammed. First, your left arm is way too passive and just drops by your side. It should be really active in helping to rotate, there are drills where you act as if you're going to catch the ball with your left hand but then you kind of pull it to... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Yeah just watched again and you jump as you swing, meaning your weight is just hopping to the left. Watch Karue Sell's Tennis HQ channel. He has a few good videos on weight transfer, guy has a really nice swing. Watch the way he moves forwards onto his left foot, nicely balanced and planted with his right foot moving o... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Yes I have tried to catch my racket on my follow through before and maybe need to drill it more but I am not sure how that will help with jamming tbh. Weight moving more forward is an interesting idea as I can see how I’ll be hitting more infront and my arm straightening out a bit. Worth a try. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Yeah give it a go, trial and error is definitely a thing! Regarding the left arm, it's something I've worked on recently. From my experience it helps because pulling with your left arm helps get your torso moving ahead of your right shoulder and arm. So kinetic chain will go hips -> torso -> arm. Just ideas to have a c... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Yes, hitting with arm straight would be best, like Federer.
No, unless you have the talent, footwork, reflex, and coordination of Federer, you don't have to always hit with arm straight. It is not easy, with very small margin of error.
Yes, you need to work on getting the elbow less bent though. Currently, you are hi... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Yeah I’m nursing an elbow strain at the moment after a league game yesterday! I know I need space between my armpit and maybe hitting the ball slightly more infront would help. I have noticed working on too many technical points confuses me and I’m not able to recall everything I should be doing when having a hit about... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Interesting. What is the feel with the left arm. Just pulling towards your body? I have tried catching the racket on follow through to keep my left arm tucked in and that doesn’t achieve the same thing I don’t think. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
There might be other ways, but the drill that works for me for spacing is using the left hand to gauge distance drill. When the ball come to you, do your unit turn and catch the ball with your left arm extended straight to your diagonal right, then drop it down and then hit it with your forehand. Repeat till you are co... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
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I know I’m not Alcaraz or anywhere near a decent rec player. I’m just copying different things to try to see what I find most comfortable. I just picked up a racket 2 years back.
I have been working on engaging the left arm so it doesn’t drop by catching the racket. Not doing it in this example most probably because ... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
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What does jammed mean in this context? Never heard someone use it in reference to a tennis stroke | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
I think of it more like a stiff karate style punch - you pull your left arm back to get your shoulder and back moving and then your right arm follows as if you were throwing your racquet sideways. This kind of advice may be hard to follow - may want to get a lesson or two. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
At that speed. Your left foot should be in front of your right foot. Both your feet need to make some kind of a recognizable T relative to the net. Move your hips, feet and shoulder will follow. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Did you ever play table tennis? Your setup as you’re hitting the shot looks like you arm and wrist are all bent like a table tennis style forehand. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Yeah I was talking about Alcaraz doesn’t keep his left arm straightened like Federer which some people say is to gauge distance which helps not being too close to the ball. I might have to try doing that more to help with distancing. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
😂 how did you guess? Yes I played a lot of table tennis in my school years!!! | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Jammed because you can’t take a free swing as the ball is too close to you | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
I’ve never seen a forehand look more like medvedevs than medvedev himself. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Sneaky feeling that was meant like a put down | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Not at all haha. I love meds forehand it’s just very unique and yours resembles it very much! | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Haha anything compared to Med’s technique seems like a put down hahaha | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Hit out in front of you to prevent injury to your arm. Your form is a recipe for golfers elbow. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Yeah I’m struggling with that as you say it | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
>Any tips or drills that I can try without asking me to remove my elbow bend on the hitting arm?
With a ball machine, this is easy to solve. Just hold your arm out to where you'd like to make ball contact and keep it there, then spend 10 minutes hitting the ball with your arm fixed. This will reprogram your brain to t... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
You are not hitting through the ball, you're slapping the ball more like. Very table tennis-esque. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
I think the forum can help you if you can post a video of an actual rally where your FH would have done some defense, offense, neutral rally - all of it. You get wrong positioned all the time because of your opponent's ball placement - I generally loop the ball to stay in the point in that case. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Second this. Slow on feet leads to compensation on arms. I would almost as a first step, be focused on being on toes at all times. It will lead to better spacing with hands. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
I’d suggest getting your non dominant arm out and across your body earlier - like as soon as the ball starts coming towards you. By the time you try to use it to space yourself the ball is already almost behind you defeating the purpose.
You also swing across your body. This causes a lot of errors and weak hitting. Wo... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Straight arm is not a must. Swiatek and Fritz hit forehands with bent elbow. If you hit forehands like them you will be ok. I see two things I would advise to focus on:
1. Load the legs more: wider stance, try using a more closed stance and really load on the left leg, then step forward with your right after the shot.... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Something I notice here is that the contact is way back. You can hit with a straight arm - I do, it's natural to me and really hard to change. I have tried because it's easy to make timing mistakes with a straight arm. Rog and Rafa obviously had a few more reps so it wasn't much of a problem for them. Still, you can ma... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Try this small tip to hit the ball out in front of you:
Just imagine when you make contact that you are looking at the ball from behind the strings.
Also yes your left arm should be extended. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
The other thing I'd say is that while it's ok to have a bent elbow, what you should never be doing is holding the elbow bent, and it really looks like that's what you're doing.
With the extreme modern grip, what you see from the pros is their elbow coming through early and their whole arm acting as a sort of whip.. Wh... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Practice with a closed stance because it's harder to get away with it when you're too close - it'll force you to learn to give space.
In terms of specific drills this is quite a tricky one though - it's more something to be super mindful of | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
sorry this is off topic but how do you like that little ball feeder? | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Nice. Will try that. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Nice. Will focus on spacing and body weight forward first to see if I can drill that properly. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Very useful for drilling. Doesn’t obviously replicate match situation but you can drill different techniques pretty well. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
If you want models of bent arm forehand, check out Djokovic, Fritz or Iga. They all have great forehands with a bent arm. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
You have a ball machine there. Just keep inching back until it's correct. Don't even move.
Start regular. Stay there and regressive back up until it's not so jammed and more in front. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Yep. I can only focus on one technique change/swing thought at a time, so I generally would pick one thing and focus on that for a few weeks, once it was automatic then I’d move onto something else. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Focus on the take back of the racket beeing straight Like you take back a candle in your Hand and dont push up with the ellbow upwards. I had a Simliar issue also take more time to Place your Self before the Shot Not to over compensate with your wrist standing to close to the ball | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
So many ways to hit one. Taylor Fritz has a kinda' jammed up, god-awful stroke that "only" got him to the Wimbledon semis.
[https://youtu.be/5DttMwAwD0U?si=h84yxsveOYEjWV1N](https://youtu.be/5DttMwAwD0U?si=h84yxsveOYEjWV1N) | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
He still has more space between his armpits which helps. Also he has a western forehand grip. From all I can see that some players with western grips will have a bent in their arm (not all) because swing path is different to eastern grip which I have. Most if not all eastern grip players have straight arms. I can’t fin... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Bro plays like medvedev | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
The pull is more across your body, imagine you wanted to rotate your upper body by using only your left arm (not saying thats what you'll do in your swing). Starting in the slot postion with left arm pointing to the ball, you'd have to whip that arm across to your left like you're elbowing someone in the face. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Usually getting jammed on a shot is a result of your footwork. I see you like to set your feet very early and hit with an open stance. It is good to set your feet before a shot, if you have time, but in a match, many shots will be taken on the run. When you don't have time to get to the ball, and set your feet, and do ... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-13-07 |
Also, a second note in case my long first comment did not make it clear. The biggest thing you can do to improve your swing is to step onto your lead foot (your left foot for these forehands) as you swing. Your feet are backwards as you set up for these shots. Kicking your left foot out behind you like that is prevent... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-13-07 |
Thanks for your thoughtful feedback. All makes sense to me and I do prefer hitting closed stance and this was me just practicing open stance because sometimes in match situations I am not even able to get into a closed stance and have to hit off an open stance on the run. I was actually happy with how much power I coul... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-14-07 |
It sounds like you are doing a lot of things right, and being thoughtful about your matches and practice. As long as that open shot is a once in a while and not a main thing, you can use it every so often. In general, the more you can get to the ball in time and set up for a traditional swing, the better. Consider taki... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-15-07 |
Yeah I have been thinking each week after tennis practice about hitting the gym, to strengthen my arm and get some cardio going. Just need to commit to it. It’s just I don’t enjoy it at all. Tennis is my main physical activity as I enjoy it so much. I might have a go at the elliptical machine now hearing how it has hel... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-15-07 |
I see what you mean now. Personally, taking the ball out in front of my body leads to my worst mishits. I do much better when I let the ball get all the way into my strike zone, next to my hips or knee. I think when I take it out in front of my body, my wrist and forearm are having to work overtime to keep my racket fa... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-16-07 |
I have been drilling past few days of taking the ball infront of me and straightening the arm and I have to say it feels like dog shit. The swing path is all wrong, I can’t naturally take the racket go from low to high as the ball is infront of me now. It feels like I’m slapping the ball.
I just started doing some res... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-16-07 |
These are open stance swings, which are less accurate and powerful for the majority of amateur players. The weird rabbit hole you have gone down is trying to mimick the mechanics of professional players who are much better athletes than 99% of the rest of us. I guarantee that whatever you see pros do on TV and YouTube... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-19-07 |
Thinking of moving to Monterey park.
Where's the most competitive tennis for adults (4.5) and my kid (9 year old) ?
TIA
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Long time fan of Lindsay Davenport and I'm trying to hunt down the racquet she used. The paint jobs reflected on the racquet are nowhere close to what she used, as they were sold as 16x20 variants and a 95 sq in head size, NOT the 18x20 variants she used and the heads look much larger. Some people have mentioned an old... | r/10s | post | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Did some digging on old forums, seems to be Wilson Pro Staff 4.5si
Also seems to be universally disliked | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
Finding a new one is impossible. If you would take a used one there may be some ads, but the chances of finding the model you want is very slim. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
I randomly saw her on the streets of NYC around the time of US Open. I said hi and that I was a big fan and she was so nice and approachable and appreciated my words!
I remember when she and Sampras won Wimbeldon in the 4th of July! Was so cool to meet a part of tennis history!! 😀 | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
It looks like the racket that Justine Henin used around 2005. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-13-07 |
I recently started volunteering to help out with a wheelchair tennis clinic in the U.S and it has really given me a new perspective and appreciation for how the pros like Diede de Groot, Oda Tokito, Dylan Alcott, Alfie Hewett, etc. play the game.
Although I don’t play with a disability, I’ve been able to use a chair w... | r/10s | post | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
One of the coaches where I play is a really well-regarded wheelchair / quad tennis coach (he travels to the grand slams to coach there), and the center hosts a lot of clinics and workshops. He's also a really good tennis coach in life, but is apparently top-notch in the wheelchair/quad tennis arena.
It's really, reall... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
I enjoy watching it. They're so good it's impressive | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
I played tennis in high school, about 15 years ago. I just started to get back into it about 2 months ago and am fortunate that a lot of it came back to me pretty quickly. I found a group to play with twice a week that meets at a local school, a wide variety of ages but was told that everybody was somewhere between 2.5... | r/10s | post | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
I personally focus on shoring up weak shots in those scenarios. Run around my forehand to practice BH, serve and volley constantly since my volleys are shit lately. Work on drop shots and lobs, etc. I just play goofier really. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-12-07 |
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