Hey everyone, good to be back again after a brief break. Hope to be posting more often now with being in town more often and less time on the road. The Florida trip and the Memphis event were good with some interesting upsets and solid play by some expected and some not.
I plan to begin a series on playing smarter so that all of you will have better matches, more success and therefore more fun. This time I want to discuss one of the very basic areas you can try to play smarter. This has to do with counting shots. In the warm-up try counting your opponent’s shots that successfully land on your side of the court. Usually it is between two and four but could go up to as many as three to five.
Once you have an average of the number of shots they hit consistently in the court you will have an idea of how many successful shots you need to hit before they either make a mistake or go for too much. This is what I call their patience ratio. After a while if you find that they start keeping more balls in the court, then you can start to apply more pressure on your shots after they reach their average number of shots to try to force them into an error. Often this means their patience ratio has increased and you need to adjust to keep their ratio down to win points easier. Try it, you will be surprised how much your patience ratio increases in addition to having extra knowledge about their tennis game. Knowledge can be very powerful and helpful to you creating more wins on court.
Thanks for reading and next time we will talk about Volume 2 of playing smarter. See you then.
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