your best stroke

[ElTexan]

Me? Backhand slice approach-shot down-the-line. it's a thing of beauty.

 

[SDPaddlefish]

Me? Backhand slice approach-shot down-the-line. it's a thing of beauty.

back when I could compete with the lower ranked pros, it was my first serve

 

[ElTexan]

back when I could compete with the lower ranked pros, it was my first serve

Middle ad, wide deuce, slice, flat, what? give us the best one.

 

[SDPaddlefish]

Middle ad, wide deuce, slice, flat, what? give us the best one.

Let me tell U a little story. My dad lives for tennis. Back when I was reasonable, my Dad in played an open tournament, played C doubles with my little brother, B singles and doubles , and then A doubles with me. We defeated several lower pro's but then we got up against a good pro in the semis. My Dad had never experienced that we got roasted 6-2, 6-2 but the funny thing was I'm not sure my Dad's raquet touched a ball other that when he served. It was actually quite funny.

 

[SDPaddlefish]

Middle ad, wide deuce, slice, flat, what? give us the best one.
Actually, none of the above. Pure power serves to the corners.

 

[cezero]

Inside out forehand from anywhere in the court. It's a more natural shot for me than a cross court forehand or cross court backhand from the ad side.

Weakest shot is definitely my serve.

 

[cezero]

Now that my shoulder is back to normal, I'm actually going to be working with a club pro to fix my serve. I think a big reason for my rotator cuff problem was bad serving mechanics for years.

My serve has always been really bad. I learned to play completely on my own. I tried for years to learn to hit a slice or topspin serve or kick serve, but I just never got it figured out.

 

[Old Lion]

Believe it or not it is my 2 handed backhand half volley. I wish I was better at the more useful strokes.

 

[JuiceTheGator]

Me? Backhand slice approach-shot down-the-line. it's a thing of beauty.

When I switched from a 2 handed BH to a 1, I literally watched these hundreds of times then went out and did it. The switch was easy and now my topspin BH is ridiculous.

 

[nuraman00]

Inside out forehand from anywhere in the court. It's a more natural shot for me than a cross court forehand or cross court backhand from the ad side.

Weakest shot is definitely my serve.

Same here.

 

[nuraman00]

Now that my shoulder is back to normal, I'm actually going to be working with a club pro to fix my serve. I think a big reason for my rotator cuff problem was bad serving mechanics for years.

My serve has always been really bad. I learned to play completely on my own. I tried for years to learn to hit a slice or topspin serve or kick serve, but I just never got it figured out.

What type of injury did you have?

 

[Smart]

I live in a place where no one plays tennis, so I am pretty out of practice. I've probably only played five or six times the last year. When I played a lot, my best shot was definitely the first serve. Right now, it is probably the forehand or the disguised drop shot I hit off the forehand side.

My backhand has always been my weakest shot. I had a two-hander, but switched to a one hander when I shoulder surgery. Neither was particularly good. Right now, I hit the slice most of the time on the backhand side and that gets deep enough to not give up free points. But yeah, I almost never hit winners off the backhand side.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Weakest shot is definitely my serve.

It's the only shot where I feel like I'm hitting with power.

Lots of dink and dunk other than that.

 

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[Old Lion]

It's the only shot where I feel like I'm hitting with power.

Lots of dink and dunk other than that.

Thats what my game used to be like. Finally got groundstrokes now that I can do damage with. Should be a great summer season.