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[jimlosaltos]

No idea.

Well, that makes me feel better <g>.
Thanks anyway.

[johnyandell]

No idea.

[jimlosaltos]

John,

When I was cobbling together the videos of Sabalenka's serve, posted in the TNP forum, my thoughts ran to other players that are "Kick challenged"

https://www.tennisplayer.net/bulletin/forum/tennisplayer/100259-interactive-forum-april-2023-aryna-sabalenka-serve#post100296

As I was watching a replay on TV of Felix Auger Aliassime, Jim Courier (one of the best commentators IMHO) said, "Felix has no kick serve, which he needs here because Alcaraz is leaning toward his forehand" and later "There he tried there to go wide with a kicker but it went into the net". Holger Rune also appears to have no kick serve, constantly hitting slice, but he's very accurate with a flat, hard second serve. Ditto Paula Badosa, a good WTA server. I mentioned Sir Andy.

Question: Aside from us disparaging their early tennis coaches, why do so many high-level pros, players that are great athletes with tremendous hand-eye coordination, struggle to hit kick? If it was easy, they'd all have kickers. Any thoughts?


Thanks.

[johnyandell]

Possibly...

[seano]

If not Indian Wells, Miami may work out

[don_budge]

JY...is there any possibility of obtaining any Aryna Sabalenka serve footage from Indian Wells? Some quality angles and ability to freeze frame.

[johnyandell]

Too late for March. But put it here and I can consider it! Others I am sure will chime in.

[arturohernandez]

Hi John,

I have two full videos from a game my daughter played recently. I would love to get feedback from everyone. I can just share via thread and use google drive. But thought I would lay it out in case it might be able to squeak into your next monthly installment. She only has two months left of tennis season. She won't play college tennis so feedback is essential before she has to go and play the big players in region in April. Let me know how to proceed.

[johnyandell]

DB,
sounds like you have issues at your end. As for the site conversion to mobile. Time marches on.

[jeffreycounts]

That's very odd the the page freezes. All those links from the thread even work on my phone when i try it and that's safari i'm using. Did you try accessing those links in Firefox or Chrome or Edge?

[don_budge]

Like John said, old threads with links to videos have no guarantee of working. However, all the links do work for me on that McEnroe thread:

https://www.tennisplayer.net/bulletin/forum/tennisplayer/2297-my-thoughts-on-the-mcenroe-forehand

What happens when you click on any of those?

Thanks for staying on the case. Btw...it is unfortunate that the old videos cannot be viewed with the posts. So many of my post were using references of the vast video resources of this site. But, when I try to view a link in the McEnroe thread I get a the video on the screen without any ability to access the video. The window is frozen and am unable to do anything with it. I cannot return to the site. Nothing. Thanks again.

[johnyandell]

Good question!

[jeffreycounts]

I've tried to switch to Firefox from Safari on my iMac...and failed.

Like John said, old threads with links to videos have no guarantee of working. However, all the links do work for me on that McEnroe thread:

https://www.tennisplayer.net/bulletin/forum/tennisplayer/2297-my-thoughts-on-the-mcenroe-forehand

What happens when you click on any of those?

[johnyandell]

DB,
You will never be able to see the videos in those old links. We had to change things to go mobile but you can ceertainly revisit them in the stroke archives

[don_budge]

I've tried to switch to Firefox from Safari on my iMac...and failed.