US OPEN TENNIS

A lot does depend on the players, surfaces, strengths and weaknesses of the two players competing but now I will take a little look at how fitness has a major bearing on the outcome. Some players are obviously much fitter than others and when it comes to competing at the highest level this can matter more than you think. The surface can have a bearing on how fitness will affect the match outcome. Clay for example, is a baseliner’s surface. When players are playing on clay, to succeed at the highest level on clay you need to have great fitness and stamina. The tennis game on clay is usually very long rallies from the baseline, running side to side in a sustained assault on the enemy. Nadal is virtually unstoppable on clay for this reason. He has won the French Open at Roland Garros for FOUR straight years now and his fitness and mainly stamina level is beyond belief. He can just keep running and running and with the technique of his shots added to the fact that he can just run and run …

By and large, there are three types of ’styles’ that players usually fall into, and most players usually adopt a style that maximizes their natural strengths on the court wile simultaneously minimizing their weaknesses. Let’s take a look at the three most widely adopted ’styles’ of tennis. Let’s start with the ‘Baseliner’. A Baseliner is a player that, most of the time, plays from the baseline and utilizes their ground strokes to play their most effective tennis. Most often, this results in long rallies back and forth across the net, with the Baseliner’s main goal being to simply hit the ball back over the net just one more time than their opponent. Strategies of the Baseliner include: - Moving the opponent side to side, wearing their opponent down physically by making them run down well-placed shots. - Keeping the ball deep in their opponent’s court, which reduces the angle from which their opponent may attack. - Hitting a variety of consistently well-placed shots that keeps their …

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