US OPEN TENNIS

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 …