Great tips. I learned as a kid on hard courts and many years later I had to adjust a number of things to play on clay. Also, how unusual is watching a kid with a solid one-handed backhand nowadays!
I’ve just started playing on clay in Australia, after 3 lessons I can really feel how much it’s helped my overall game on other surfaces. The sliding is hard and your drills are really helpful, thank you! 🎾
Love the Greenwood clay after making semifinals this past weekend. It took me awhile when I first started playing tournaments in juniors to get used to the movement of clay, but once I got down the movement, the results have followed:)
Excellent! I've never seen or had a lesson about playing on clay before! Interesting forsure, seems difficult I would have been totally lost before this video 🙏
Back in the day I played a better player with big topspin off both sides on HarTru. I hit hard and flat. We were both baseliners. I didn’t have much hope going in. I won pretty easily. He tried to play clay court grind and I just played my game. The slipperiness ended up helping me because I’d just hit hard to the open court and he’d have trouble recovering. Side note, it was a friend who lived above Carrillo College near Santa Cruz who owned the court and Hank Pfister brought McEnroe there to practice for the French early in Mac’s career. Unfortunately, I wasn’t there that day.
There are a lot of pluses to playing on clay, one being it negates the speed of the court at higher altitudes and brings it more in line with sea level hard courts. Another plus is as Meike describes your footwork requires more attention and can improve, because just getting bye with a weight transfer into the ball without moving your feet during a stroke (such as sometimes happens on hard court rallies) can often produce a sitting duck on clay. Last, playing on clay often will produce longer rallies that make you concentrate on the strategy of constructing a strategy while trying to win a point instead of pulling the trigger on a winner right away.
You're an awesome coach 👍👍
Great tips. I learned as a kid on hard courts and many years later I had to adjust a number of things to play on clay. Also, how unusual is watching a kid with a solid one-handed backhand nowadays!
So true! His backhand is awesome!
I’ve just started playing on clay in Australia, after 3 lessons I can really feel how much it’s helped my overall game on other surfaces. The sliding is hard and your drills are really helpful, thank you! 🎾
Love the Greenwood clay after making semifinals this past weekend. It took me awhile when I first started playing tournaments in juniors to get used to the movement of clay, but once I got down the movement, the results have followed:)
Excellent! I've never seen or had a lesson about playing on clay before! Interesting forsure, seems difficult I would have been totally lost before this video 🙏
Glad it was helpful!
Back in the day I played a better player with big topspin off both sides on HarTru. I hit hard and flat. We were both baseliners. I didn’t have much hope going in. I won pretty easily. He tried to play clay court grind and I just played my game. The slipperiness ended up helping me because I’d just hit hard to the open court and he’d have trouble recovering. Side note, it was a friend who lived above Carrillo College near Santa Cruz who owned the court and Hank Pfister brought McEnroe there to practice for the French early in Mac’s career. Unfortunately, I wasn’t there that day.
There are a lot of pluses to playing on clay, one being it negates the speed of the court at higher altitudes and brings it more in line with sea level hard courts. Another plus is as Meike describes your footwork requires more attention and can improve, because just getting bye with a weight transfer into the ball without moving your feet during a stroke (such as sometimes happens on hard court rallies) can often produce a sitting duck on clay. Last, playing on clay often will produce longer rallies that make you concentrate on the strategy of constructing a strategy while trying to win a point instead of pulling the trigger on a winner right away.
Thank you so much!!!
So cool to see Diadoras on you and the kid!) I love em! And my fav is speed fly. What about a small review about those shoes?)
They're actually Fitville Shoes.
Great Info! Thanks and viele Grüße aus Bayern 😊!
Dankeschön und auch Grüße zurück
Second time on this surface, plus wearing old shoes. Too afraid to run! Going to try the movement drills and donning new shoes.😂
I don’t slide because i’m afraid to hurt myself. I need to learn moving on (orange) clay.
THE NEXT DENIS SHAPOVALOV IN THE MAKING ?!
I play at 4.5 trying to make it to a 5.0 at some point or another for reference
What do you mean"I'm too old" ? 😉 Age is only a number ,MEIKE 👍🏻❤️🎾
Love that!