She also leads with her elbow up to contact, which is a thing I’ve never found intuitive, and I had to study footage of myself to understand why it seemed like I was cutting short my racquet-drop and swing up to contact.
Same! It took ages of me practicing abbreviated swings to even get close to this part of the motion, and combine that with relaxation and shoulder / chest mobility to get closer to the optimal racket drop.
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Great analysis! Thank you! Another observation is her body starts exploding up and racket dropping down at the same time the ball starts falling down.
Thanks!
Hey thank you so much Matt!
Thanks, Ryan, will work on this one!
💞🦾💓LET'S GO COCO
I noticed she didn’t do a full pronation, her palm was facing down, not facing the side fence as other pros. Thoughts on that? 🙏🎾
Her serve would improve if she did.
Thanks Ryan for letting us know.
thanks
She also leads with her elbow up to contact, which is a thing I’ve never found intuitive, and I had to study footage of myself to understand why it seemed like I was cutting short my racquet-drop and swing up to contact.
Same! It took ages of me practicing abbreviated swings to even get close to this part of the motion, and combine that with relaxation and shoulder / chest mobility to get closer to the optimal racket drop.
My point of interest:
4:08 - Drop racket as you explode up
Coco has technically better serve than Iga, IMO. Thanks for the analysis!
Iga uses a lot of spin or slice rarely hits flat
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All this is dependent on individual player flexibility.
I’d rather not double fault 20x in my matches! Thanks though 😂