2023 Wimbledon Final – Alcaraz First Serve Lesson
Sunday, 23 July 2023
Alcaraz: Wimbledon Final 1st Serve Lesson Carlos Alcaraz stunned Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final a week ago in a thrilling five-set final. Next Thursday’s webinar will focus on learning the patterns of play and momentum swings of the final and how you can directly improve your game by studying the best two players in
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2023 Wimbledon: Where Djokovic Serves On Break Points
Sunday, 16 July 2023
Gday from Wimbledon. Novak Djokovic takes on Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final later this afternoon in a blockbuster match-up for the ages. Djokovic is playing for history. If he wins, he ties Roger Federer with eight Wimbledon titles. He would have also won the Australian Open, Roland Garros, and now Wimbledon. Only the US
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2023 Wimbledon: Men’s Semi-Finalists Rally Length
Thursday, 13 July 2023
G’day from Wimbledon. 🎾🌱 On Friday, we have two outstanding matches in the men’s semi-finals at The Championships. Carlos Alcaraz v Daniil Medvedev Jannik Sinner v Novak Djokovic Below is an analysis of rally length for all four players to the semi-finals. It is not meant to be a head-to-head comparison. Instead, it is about
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Swiatek Is Gone. 57 Forehand Errors Is Why.
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Fifty-seven forehand errors. Elina Svitolina defeated world No. 1 Iga Swiatek, 7-5, 6-7(5), 6-2 in the quarter-finals of Wimbledon today with a stunning display of baseline supremacy. What was Svitolina’s strategy? To run a battering ram at Swiatek’s forehand and smash it from a strength into a weakness, committing a substantial 57 forehand errors in
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Andy Murray Needs To Chill
Saturday, 08 July 2023
One minute, Andy Murray was surging, and Wimbledon glory was once again at his fingertips. The next minute, he imploded, and it didn’t matter that he was only six points from defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas. He was too angry to see straight. The eruption came at the worst possible time. Tsitsipas defeated Murray 7-6(3), 6-7(2), 4-6,
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Wimbledon Serve Speed Is Trending In The Wrong Direction
Thursday, 06 July 2023
G’day from Wimbledon, 🌱🎾 Sports are supposed to be linear. As the years pass by, athletes get stronger, run faster, and hit the ball harder… you get the picture. Something has happened to serve speed at Wimbledon. It is getting slower instead of faster. Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam that provides historical serve speed
2022 Wimbledon: Novak Djokovic Tournament Stats
Monday, 11 July 2022
G’day! Novak Djokovic has done it again! The Super Serb won his seventh Wimbledon yesterday, which includes the last four in a row. Stunning numbers any way you want to slice them! The following breakdown combines all seven matches in one data set. Those 2022 matches were: Rd 1 def. Soonwoo Kwon 6-3, 3-6,
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Nick Kyrgios’ Serve. Unreadable. Unhittable. Unstoppable.
Saturday, 09 July 2022
G’day, Is Nick Kyrgios a legitimate chance to upset the Novak Djokovic apple cart 🍎🛒 in the Wimbledon men’s singles final on Sunday? Anything is possible, but the Super Serb is looking to win his fourth Wimbledon in a row and seventh overall. Djokovic has experience to burn. This will be his 32nd Grand Slam
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10 Keys To Novak’s 2021 Wimbledon Success
Monday, 12 July 2021
Imagine winning Wimbledon… one, two, three, four, five… six times!!! Novak just powered through the 2021 Wimbledon draw for the loss of just two sets. Dominant. Controlling. Commanding. Superior. Supreme. Here are 10 keys to his tournament victory. 1: Serve & Volley = 88% Won (36/44) Novak served and volleyed nine times in the
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My Favorite Day In Tennis… Ever!
Friday, 22 January 2021
2015 Wimbledon: Dustin Brown def. Rafael Nadal 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 I first started playing tennis when I was around 12 years old in my hometown of Albury, Australia. I was instantly hooked. I played a bucket load of junior tennis. I then traveled to the U.S. to play collegiate tennis and became an All-American
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Simona Halep: The Power Of Positivity
Friday, 14 August 2020
G’day, Simona Halep played the match of her life to defeat Serena Williams 6-2, 6-2 in the 2019 Wimbledon Women’s Final. Right from the first minute, you could sense that Simona was “on” and Serena was not. I broke down the final on the Wimbledon Channel right after the match. That video is below. Here
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C-B-A = The worst baseline pattern of all
Monday, 27 July 2020
G’day, The singles baseline is 27 feet (8.23m) across. That’s substantial. It is a lot of territory to cover when your opponent is looking to attack you. That’s a lot of running to do if you hit the ball to the wrong part of the court and open up angles to be attacked. In The
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Why You Build Through The Ad Court
Friday, 17 July 2020
G’day, The majority of points are built through the Ad court directed towards a right-hander’s backhand. You play to the backhand much more than the forehand at the beginning of a point because you are less likely to get hurt off that wing. In the 25 Golden Rules of Singles Strategy, I talk about the
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Forehand Return Winners: Your Guide
Thursday, 02 July 2020
G’day, Return winners are a line item in our sport – meaning someone sits on the side of the court and counts them at Grand Slams. At Wimbledon in 2019, the men hit 445, and the women hit 381. So the men won that battle by 64 winners. At the 2020 Australian Open, the men
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Your New Best Friend. The 3-1 Pattern
Wednesday, 01 July 2020
G’day, When you hear tennis players or coaches or commentators talk about “patterns of play”, it all sounds very official and organized and clever. But can you actually name a pattern of play? Now you definitely can! 😁 The video below is my Wimbledon Channel analysis of a pattern of play called the “3-1”. Yes
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Bigger 2nd Serve: Coco Gauff or Novak Djokovic?
Monday, 27 April 2020
2019 Wimbledon Rewind: Coco Gauff Coco Gauff defeated Venus Williams 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of Wimbledon last year. Talk about causing a buzz on Centre Court! I reviewed the match on the Wimbledon Channel, including Coco’s serve and forehand technique, and a little background on the first time I saw Coco play at
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