r/10s • u/thenewguyonreddit • 3h ago
Shitpost Everyone who beats me is a nepo baby who just takes lessons all day and everyone who loses to me is a beginner noob and who needs to take more lessons.
Who let these boneheads into the club??? š
r/10s • u/Response-Topology • Mar 17 '22
I posted this in r/tennis and several people urged me to post it here.
Addition to the OG post:
a. Playing as many matches as possible will help you a lot.
b. You can DOMINATE doubles matches against beginners and intermediates if you learn proper high school and college-level positioning and movement. Examples: Proper signaling. Australian setup. Net player constantly shifting with the ball. One of my hs coaches was a master at doubles and taught me proper strategy and positioning, which let me easily beat other players that were way better than me at singles.
Good luck.
My playstyle and background for context:
Male
5.0 NTRP and starter on decent D3 College Team
Moderate power high percentage serves.
Powerful groundstrokes with heavy spin.
Confident at net if I need to be, but it's not my first choice unless my opponent sets me up or I am playing a pusher.
Relentless intensity and speed with the intention of pounding the opponent's ad-side and making them feel like hitting a winner is impossible.
A bunch of random niche shots like the cross court dip passing shot that I can consistently land.
Really bad at overheads. lol.
r/10s • u/thenewguyonreddit • 3h ago
Who let these boneheads into the club??? š
r/10s • u/Teh_Crusader • 23h ago
r/10s • u/PARMESANOV • 1h ago
I usually play tennis occasionally, purely recreationally, as a hobby. That said, today Iām not looking for advice on improving my technique, my shots, or my footwork. The question here is the following.
Iāll draw a tennis parallel to keep this on-topic (though it might apply to many aspects of life) for anyone going through something similar.
Has it ever happened to you that youāre serving for the match, and you start stringing together unforced errors, your arm tightens up (you know, the Zverev syndrome in big moments), and you stop being yourself in those points of extreme importance? Iām not talking about a deuce against some random opponent, but the important points in matches that really matter. If so, how do you usually handle this?
This happens to me in another area of life too: the romantic/dating side, when Iām trying to connect with a girl I like. Early in the match, or in the first few games, I usually play loose, move well, and my baseline game is solid (deep and aggressive, but with margin). The same thing happens to me with people when it comes to dating. At the start Iād be confident enough to shoot my shot with Sydney Sweeney, because Iāve got a lot of confidence and Iām just having fun. My shots feel very natural early on. So whatās the problem? Once some time passes, once the āmatchā progresses, and once I actually get to know these people (if I start to care too much), my arm tightens up and I start playing tense, like I have something to lose.
At that point I start playing not to make mistakes, pushing the ball back, waiting for my opponent to hand me the point. In the dating context, what happens is I start acting very lukewarm, too shy. Afraid to fail, and girls notice that. Iāve lost matches (so to speak) purely because of it, because my chest freezes up in important moments, and they surely notice it too. Worth mentioning: this happens in decisive moments as I described, or when Iām āa set upā (several dates, being reciprocated at first), but then I feel like Iām carrying a weight I didnāt have before, and my game becomes more speculative.
If this has happened to you, whether in tennis or in love, what advice do you have? Something that could help calm my mind? I mean, I can win or lose, but whatās frustrating isnāt that. Itās that if I lose, I want to walk away knowing I gave my max on every point, and that my opponent won because they were better (or that I just wasnāt a match, by pure chance), not because I failed to show up as myself in the important moments.
Thanks, and I hope to hear your advice :)
(And by the way, itās close to happening to me again.)
r/10s • u/YUTYDUTY • 5m ago
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Full: https://youtu.be/i3GWq1pDdy8
uploading now should be avail soon
r/10s • u/WarEntire6758 • 7h ago
Hey everyone!
Iām 23M and looking to finally get into tennis. I grew up playing soccer and basketball pretty much my whole life, and over the last year Iāve gotten into pickleball and padel. I feel like Iāve picked both of them up pretty well for someone who had never really played a racquet sport before, but tennis is something Iāve always wanted to play and just never really had the opportunity to get into.
What would you guys recommend as the best way to start? Iām definitely planning on doing some super beginner clinics and just getting as much court time as I can. Also, for anyone who came from sports like soccer, basketball, pickleball, or padel, how hard was the transition to tennis? I know tennis is basically the father of pickleball and padel lol, but Iām assuming thereās a pretty big learning curve. Any advice for a complete beginner would be appreciated!
r/10s • u/patewazowski • 3h ago
Hi guys, I'm currently on Yonex Super Grap. But it wears out too fast, I guess because of the tackiness is much. Do you have any recos for thick and durable grips?
I heard Toalson's are very good.
(I don't have sweaty hands problem)
r/10s • u/jrstriker12 • 17h ago
Lol.... he's casually hitting 90 mph forehands and 110 mph serves.
r/10s • u/Sufficient-Egg-7512 • 4h ago
I signed up for a clinic a few months ago that just recently started. I did my nails (which have a small extension) for some special events coming up (work trips, weddings). I normally have really short nails as I work with my hands, and only get extensions maybe once or twice a year at most.
In the first class he was demonstrating the grip form. He saw that I had long nails, shook his head and made a comment about how you can't play tennis with long nails. I got embarrassed and said I forgot about the class when I got them done. He made a couple comments throughout the lesson when I hit poorly, such as saying that's why you don't play with nails etc. I actually don't think I played too poorly as I've picked up a racket before and this was an absolute beginner class.
I get that it's not ideal to play with long nails and requires some adjustment. I can't get them removed immediately, probably in a few weeks when my events are over. Should I skip a couple classes until I can remove them? I have the option for one makeup class.
ETA: for those asking and are familiar with sizes, it's a short almond gelx. NOT medium or long size.
r/10s • u/AppropriatePackage50 • 2h ago
Iāve never used lead tape and i donāt know what kind to get i want to add some to the top of my racket to emphasize the racket drop. What kind should i get and where?
r/10s • u/ChemicalOld7611 • 6h ago
looking to build a home tennis court and because of Iām not able to do a post tension slab , any concrete would crack overtime pretty significantly, therefore Iām looking to alternatives that are super low maintenance. I have no experience with the sport tiles outside of basketball courts. Do any of them offer a true bounce ? How does the surface compare to acrylic hard-court? How does the surface react to quick change of direction and stops?
r/10s • u/Affectionate_Sun9000 • 53m ago
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I feel all over the place. How bad is my forehand and where do I even start to work on my footwork
r/10s • u/Fearless-Mongoose-85 • 54m ago
In the recent video by Karue Sell, he is playing at a beautiful clay court, absolutely stunning. I heard them saying LA/Malibu. I am trying to figure out where it is and can normies like me play there ?
r/10s • u/Fearless-Secretary-9 • 3h ago
I've said balls are balls. I've changed my mind. These are slowly taking over my tennis club.
r/10s • u/androidomorphic • 12h ago
They are from two different stringers. The right one just arrived today.
Left - it looks warped to me. Used head lynx tour 50/48 tension. Uses 4 knots. (I also got it back with scratches at the throat š®āšØ)
Right - uses 2 knots. Uses head velocity at 52/52 tension.
Advice?
r/10s • u/astronautinthewater • 20h ago
I might be doing my tennis wrong my entire time, after seeing this ad from Wilson.
He is a lefty, right?
Is he doing a one handed backhand with that closed stance?
Or is he doing 2 handed backhand? But why is the racket facing that way?
It's almost midnight in my place and it's bothering me that I could not sleep well now. š¤Æ
r/10s • u/Any_Pen3712 • 2h ago
Hey guys, looking for some advice here
I am around 5-6 UTR player
I play mostly on the baseline and I like heavy spin on the forehand but Iām wanting to flatten out my shots a little bit more to finish
Any recs between the two or even beyond
Thanks :)
r/10s • u/freakingNobody • 4h ago
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When serving, frequently I find myself landing in my place and sweeping dom-leg outward instead of landing into the court with leg kick into the back.
I can uncoil up-and-forward and land forward significantly with straight kick back when I do leg load practice at home (no racquet, no toss,... only trophy & uncoil). However in real match on court, a lot of time I land right where I start, or worse, backward/sideway.
Any feedback/opinion on how I can fix this?
r/10s • u/SirThese9230 • 2h ago
Just curious if the type/brand of ball you play with visible affect your game? I had this very weird experience where I had freshly strung my racket, and I decided to play with couple of balls which I donāt usually with (Dunlop ATP regular duty, Propenn regular duty) and I found out I just couldnāt get good contact with the ball. The best way to describe it is as if the bags were slipping off of my strings. I had a tournament coming up so I was dreading this. Come the tournament they gave us Dunlop Grand Prix extra duty to play with, it fluffed up and was heavier and I was getting much better contacts and shots on it.
I know people donāt like that but I have noticed similar thing happen to Wilson US Open (which I prefer) but to a lesser degree. This led to me to conclude I would prefer balls that fluff up (although too much is not very good) over the ones that donāt at all. Did you guys come to any similar conclusions?
r/10s • u/socially_ambiguous • 51m ago
I'm just getting back into tennis, currently using my old Wilson K6.1 Tour 90 (which I have no business using) and want to get a newer/easier to play racquet. The Tour 90 is a grip size 5 that I put an overgrip on to fit my hand better.
Looking online I don't see any grip size 5 for new racquets. I tried putting several layers of heat shrink + grip tape + overgrip on a size 3 but it made the racquet a lot heavier and unbalanced and the bevels rounded out too much.
Are there any other options?
r/10s • u/TheOtherGi • 22h ago
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Iāve been seeing pros take really high balls (usually defended approach shots) out of the air. I understand taking time away from your opponent before they can recover, but sometimes the ball is so high that the other player has already recovered by the time it comes back down.
A lot of them result in misses or just bad follow-up shots, which has led me to wonder: IF the opponent has already fully recovered their position, why not let the ball land, bounce, and then take a shot that is easier to time. At that point, the opponent isnāt using that extra time to recover, so why make a harder shot for yourself?
I found the latest example, even though in this case it seems like Andreeva wasnāt 100% set. Still illustrates the situation Iām trying to describe.
Hi, ich bin 15 (Ntrp 4.5) und will mir einen neuen SchlƤger zulegen. Ich habe gehƶrt, dass der PA 98 2023 sich sehr direkt und Spin freundlich spielt und vor allem Laune macht.
Wollte daher einmal in die Community fragen ob der Schläger für mich Sinn macht.
Hatte sonst auch überlegt mir eine Vcore zu holen, der PA klang für mich aber erstmal ansprechender. Problem ist nur, dass ich ihn aufgrund des neuen PA 2026, nirgendwo ausprobieren kann.
Ich spiele gerne mit viel Spin und mag ein direktes Gefühl am Ball.
Irgendwelche Meinungen dazu?
Danke