Once you know how to hit the ball at all, everything else on a tennis court is about saving time and space, and/or taking them from your opponent. How would you like to get every ball without having to run faster? How would you like to get more balls at a smooth, under control pace? Would you like more time to get into the most efficient possible position to hit great shots? Do you want to decrease your errors and increase the errors your force in your opponent? Sounds too good to be true? It’s not. First, you have to admit that there is something that you are not quite doing right on the tennis court. Almost 100% of the players I meet for the first time think they are seeing the ball out of the opponent’s racquet, but their definition is off by a little or a lot. It’s off by a little when they still pick up the ball fairly early in its flight, and those are usually the 4.0/4.5 players. The players really struggling are the ones who only give a casual glance, then they are the ones for whom the ball seems like a surprise. It’s like your asking yourself how the ball got there so quickly, or you have an ‘uh oh’ moment, because all of a sudden it’s way over there, or it’s a mishit ball that barely cleared the net. The problem of slow reactions, poor ball recognition, and being ill prepared to play the strategy you want to play is one of seeing the ball too late.
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Immediate Accurate Decisive Action Is The Goal
