It looks like you are digging hard out there and putting in the effort to make your opponent hit the extra shot, great stuff. Your serve becomes (and will continue to become) a reliable weapon for you when you hit your spots. Completely ignoring your technique, you would still see decent improvement by solely focusing on lowering the amount of unforced errors you make, however it is not going to develop your game that much in the long term in comparison to top players (if that's something you are even interested in). Your tendency of putting yourself far behind the baseline during rallies is perfectly fine, but if you stay there the entire match your opponent is going to have more time to recover and neutralize the rally. In this set, your opponent gave you a decent amount of (or at least what I would consider to be) attackable short balls already, however future opponents are most likely going to make you work a lot harder to earn them. It was painful watching you put in huge efforts to make a dig for a ball just to see you default to biffing balls back down the middle until your opponent either does it again or hits a sloppy unforced error. The easiest solution for this is to either step into the court more or pushing angles more (instead of hitting down the middle). Regardless of how many short balls your opponent gives you, it won't matter if you sit back and wait for the ball to come to you. By doing this, you have essentially reset the rally instead of capitalising on the opportunity to take charge of the point. If you step into the court and also start working the angles, you won't have to rely on painting lines like during the point at 8:35 to have your opponent on the run. Seeing as you seem to fit a baseline grinder architype (rafa tee included), it is especially important that you also pick the right balls to step in and attack, or at least generally attempt to make your opponent move more/push the angles instead of putting everything back to the centre of the court. This will in turn, give you even MORE short balls and opportunities to win points. It is important to note that you can change the direction of the rally (making your opponent move) WITHOUT having to go for a winner, as you did spit out some unforced errors when you tried to force the issue. They way you are playing now is always going to put you on the backfoot, as your opponent just has to rally with you down the middle and wait for the right ball to attack. Waiting for your opponent to make an unforced error (ball machine POV) is not a sustainable playstyle and is only really going to work against lower ranked players, as better players will be able to go HOURS without missing a rally ball let alone 2-3 shots, keep in mind that this is all just my two cents though. Overkill nerd comment aside, the most important thing is to have fun and enjoy the sport. Take this all with a grain of salt, this video popped up in my recommended and felt compelled to watch after you called your tennis footage "gameplay" LOL. (For context, a few years back I was equivalent to a USTA 6+ but I wasn't enjoying tennis like I once did and have since hung up the rackets for good.)
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It looks like you are digging hard out there and putting in the effort to make your opponent hit the extra shot, great stuff. Your serve becomes (and will continue to become) a reliable weapon for you when you hit your spots.
Completely ignoring your technique, you would still see decent improvement by solely focusing on lowering the amount of unforced errors you make, however it is not going to develop your game that much in the long term in comparison to top players (if that's something you are even interested in).
Your tendency of putting yourself far behind the baseline during rallies is perfectly fine, but if you stay there the entire match your opponent is going to have more time to recover and neutralize the rally. In this set, your opponent gave you a decent amount of (or at least what I would consider to be) attackable short balls already, however future opponents are most likely going to make you work a lot harder to earn them. It was painful watching you put in huge efforts to make a dig for a ball just to see you default to biffing balls back down the middle until your opponent either does it again or hits a sloppy unforced error.
The easiest solution for this is to either step into the court more or pushing angles more (instead of hitting down the middle). Regardless of how many short balls your opponent gives you, it won't matter if you sit back and wait for the ball to come to you. By doing this, you have essentially reset the rally instead of capitalising on the opportunity to take charge of the point. If you step into the court and also start working the angles, you won't have to rely on painting lines like during the point at 8:35 to have your opponent on the run.
Seeing as you seem to fit a baseline grinder architype (rafa tee included), it is especially important that you also pick the right balls to step in and attack, or at least generally attempt to make your opponent move more/push the angles instead of putting everything back to the centre of the court. This will in turn, give you even MORE short balls and opportunities to win points. It is important to note that you can change the direction of the rally (making your opponent move) WITHOUT having to go for a winner, as you did spit out some unforced errors when you tried to force the issue.
They way you are playing now is always going to put you on the backfoot, as your opponent just has to rally with you down the middle and wait for the right ball to attack. Waiting for your opponent to make an unforced error (ball machine POV) is not a sustainable playstyle and is only really going to work against lower ranked players, as better players will be able to go HOURS without missing a rally ball let alone 2-3 shots, keep in mind that this is all just my two cents though.
Overkill nerd comment aside, the most important thing is to have fun and enjoy the sport.
Take this all with a grain of salt, this video popped up in my recommended and felt compelled to watch after you called your tennis footage "gameplay" LOL.
(For context, a few years back I was equivalent to a USTA 6+ but I wasn't enjoying tennis like I once did and have since hung up the rackets for good.)
crazy forehand grip
rahhhhhhh
damn I've got more likes than you
What do you use to record?
@@zoinks5717 This was recorded on a iPhone with a swing stick from swing vision
Please help me fix my serve
The motion is fine just don’t fall backwards even if it’s a kickserve. The other guy has a pretty good serve
Your toss
Do you have Reddit? I have some notes for you but it would be helpful to be able to send you screenshots of positions with commentary.
@@JV-py3lg Yes I formed a habit of tossing it too far back
@@mskcouric Ah would love feedback to improve my game but I don’t use Reddit :(