Tennis Players, What's Your Favorite Shot?

have u, kev?

u guys.

i rly don't know what to tell u about what just happened.

i mean, my backhand was there. felt great. but ... my courtesy shot! mfg!

my partner said i seemed to do better getting hard, fast forehands. generating the pace on that side is really fucking with me right now. it just goes to show how much practice does. crazy.

going to try again now.

I assume a lot of you guys are members of clubs? How would you feel about an absolute beginner joining your club?

!! where do u live?

little better today

have u, kev?

u guys.

― j lol (surm), Wednesday, June 22, 2011 9:18 PM (Yesterday)

yeah i'm a 4.5

it rained today, so i played basketball indoors

awesome. good night for some indoor ball.

there was a really cute guy playing basketball no the courts tonight. he was in a wifebeater.

been practicing in my apartment

Surm do you wear a cute white headband when you play tennis?

sometimes! when my hair is longer it's a must

I want to custom-make one for you that says like SMILE! or something in yellow glitter.

But then the glitter might get in your eyes and that would be unpleasant; you would probably not even smile.

:) you have to be careful applying sunscreen to the forehead for the same reason -- stings like a motha

Is that why nobody bought my Stevie D Deluxe Glittery Sunscreen??

:D maybe

Inside out crosscourt forehand return from the ad side <3

Play 4 days a week.

so excited to get my inside out back

anybody in brooklyn want to play today?

bye bye backhand. it just kept going SHORT! ugh. but my slice was working ...

i would much rather go long than short in practice

on the upside my inside out is back

i'm really tall so why the fuck is my serve not, like, 100mph :( i hate using chopper grip. that's probably why. also because i never practice it. serving takes too much effort and is boring. groundstrokes are much more fun because no two shots are ever the same

yess

didnt play enough tennis this summer :(

ive started playing @ a nearby club, it's cool you can p much play any weeknight vs a random opponent for $25 as a nonmember. id been fairing p well vs 3.0-ish level folks but last night got paired against a 4.0 who i could barely stay on the court w/. really strong forehand that he could place perfectly & he moved so well for a dude in his prob mid-50s. it was still fun, even though he crushed me 6-0, 6-2, 6-4. i needed to get in more first serves.

ayo technology i bought this thing, only used it once so far but its p crazy how much it helped my game

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61QBzrc7S2L._SL1500_.jpg

I haven't played in years :((((( quit to focus on running. I miss it.

that's like giving up on sex to focus on heavy breathing

been playing singles like 2x a week for the last two months, i'm prob like .500 m/l

theres 1 dude whos easily 65 yr old & serve/volleys and who owns me, hes sick

had a good comeback last night from down 1-6, 2-4…….i ended up winning 1-6, 6-4, 10-4

was hobbling today from a foot blister tho ow

this is my personal tennis blog thread now

i think ive won 5 straight matches or so, and beat a dude tonight who ive never before beaten

my 1st serve has gotten really solid somehow. like i prob only get like 1-2 clean aces per set but it otherwise leads to maybe 1 free or easy put away pt per game nonetheless, makes a big difference

that's like giving up on sex to focus on heavy breathing

Lols

ive been working on the one-hand down the line backhand, thats a hard shot for me so the few ive hit recently have been p cool; ive also gotten ok @ inside out forehands off of service returns for winners

i had a rematch vs the old man serve & volley dude and he still beat me 6-7, 1-6, i made a tonne of errors :<

my worst shot is definitely the smash. 99% likely to miss it. total panic whenever i have to hit one.

Volleying is the only thing I'm actually good at. Or was when I played regularly.

indoor season winding down, rn im 21 wins/15 losses

mostly happy to have not suffered any serious injury for playing so regularly

played a couple tough like ex-marine looking 50 yr old types w/ huge serves. fortunately, im p good @ timing returns and at least getting them back in play and both guys regular fh/bh games were not that great & I won both matches in 3d set tiebreaks

i've played like 10 times in the last 3 years :(

you play USTA, jc?

nah just @ a club, like a ladder sitch

Passing shot, duh

nice

i used to play v regularly, played USTA for a few summers, but have been moving a lot lately and haven't had reliable hitting partners

what racquets have you all had good/bad experiences with? it's time to get a new one for me. i really enjoyed using a head titanium recently and am torn between that and the oversize wilson one?

(i am short, not great at generating power but instinctively play aggressively because my strokes are too inconsistent to just get the ball back. it's not a great combination. oh and i can't serve or smash at all lol)

I have the same Prince Michael Change Graphite Longbody racket that I had in High School. It's 20 years old and beat to shit, but I can't imagine playing with anything else. Maybe I'm missing out on some new tech that would make me awesome.

I still use the one I posted upthread - prince O^3 silver -- its oversized and pretty forgiving and produces good power; the owner of my local tennis store when I went to get it restrung derogatorily called it a grandpa racket lol, and im sure that's right but I find it still has enough touch for me and I rarely hit w/ heavy spin so don't care so much abt maybe lacking that control

I also have a head graphite racket and a smaller faced prince (I think the model isner uses) and each feels kindof like a pea shooter in comparison, I don't like the head 1 @ all

i hate serving so much. have no idea what i'm doing when i walk up to the service line, no control over my motion, on the rare occasion it's working it only takes one or two DFs for it to go completely to shit because i don't know what i was doing right or what i'm doing wrong. completely affecting my enjoyment of playing in general. played one and a half sets at the weekend, after four straight service games of four straight DFs i had to stop. i basically have no idea how to get it over the net and into the service box. when i tried to just tap it in it still didn't go in :(

yea that's tough. hard to give advice on it but m/l don't overthink it. so much of it is just timing. for me, I get screwed up if I don't wait like that second or two for my toss to peak/come down a bit. when I just played on sat my serve was really working well and smooth, it felt good. I feel like I took a bit from novaks motion and how relaxed it is

get some lessons, lex

I have some imo great advice: don't serve!

I play with a friend, and a couple of years ago we decided to skip the serves. They take a lot of energy and rhythm out of the game, and unless you're really good at it, what's the point? And if you're really good, then acing the serve just ends the ball - and what's the fun in that? Instead we start the ball with an easy underhand - makes it a lot more fun to play. Have seen others at the club do the same.

Ofc doesn't work if you're playing competitively :P

skipping serves is probably how i got into this mess where i can't play actual matches. just hitting it aimlessly isn't really sufficient.