Yes
A nice "Ahem." I now admit, after some fresh looks, that the filmstrip in the Sergio Cruz article shows Rosewall's racket tip staying level to the court immediately after contact before it rises to the right.
In the Trey Waltke article, first up in the "Classic Lessons" section just to the left of here, racket tip stays level to the court immediately after contact, too, in the repeating video of Waltke's own tremendously effective slice.
But down below, where there's a plethora of still photos of Rosewall all in a cluster, one of them shows a sudden plunge of the racket tip from contact before everything goes up in a similar way.
I'm not even sure of how to do this. I'm trying to figure it out! I'll go to a tennis court by Lake St. Clair in ten minutes! But whether I do figure it out,
it happens, and is testament to what we all know and assert, that this is a tremendously versatile shot.
Oh, also, in one of these various sequences-- don't care which-- Rosewall swings
the open racket like a tray of canapes before he turns it over = a more abrupt turning over. I still hold out for my idea that the turning over will be done before contact, which leaves two options: 1) blocked contact or 2) manipulated contact if these terms make sense.
Still haven't made it to the court. Still am editing through addition. What somebody like me wants to do, if studying the Cruz and Waltke articles, is continue to the link at the bottom of the Waltke article, which gets you to Sutherland slice.
All this material shows Budge and Rosewall getting arm straight sooner than Waltke, who starts straightening at same time but doesn't finish till shortly before contact.
Another topic to think about (along with whether Cruz fantasized a Detroit club) is whether to lower front shoulder for this shot or keep shoulders level like Muscles.
Tilting shoulders down is certainly one way to beef up contact with a weak continental. Another way is to roll arm a bit more. No matter which option I elect twenty minutes from now, I'll never forget a club championship I witnessed
at the Crooked Run Racquet and Fitness Center in Front Royal, Virginia.
This was a top flight mixed doubles tournament. One of the competing women was Swiss and very attractive and from the diplomatic corps in Washington, D.C.
We kidded about the relative height of mountains in Virginia and Switzerland.
What did she have for shots? Everything seemed ordinary, except for her backhand slice, and she and her partner got all the way to the final. Somewhere in the middle, around the quarter-finals, they played a match that wasn't so good.
She forgot to get her front shoulder down, she told me, didn't dig enough and lean on the ball, but by the final she was doing that again.
A nice "Ahem." I now admit, after some fresh looks, that the filmstrip in the Sergio Cruz article shows Rosewall's racket tip staying level to the court immediately after contact before it rises to the right.
In the Trey Waltke article, first up in the "Classic Lessons" section just to the left of here, racket tip stays level to the court immediately after contact, too, in the repeating video of Waltke's own tremendously effective slice.
But down below, where there's a plethora of still photos of Rosewall all in a cluster, one of them shows a sudden plunge of the racket tip from contact before everything goes up in a similar way.
I'm not even sure of how to do this. I'm trying to figure it out! I'll go to a tennis court by Lake St. Clair in ten minutes! But whether I do figure it out,
it happens, and is testament to what we all know and assert, that this is a tremendously versatile shot.
Oh, also, in one of these various sequences-- don't care which-- Rosewall swings
the open racket like a tray of canapes before he turns it over = a more abrupt turning over. I still hold out for my idea that the turning over will be done before contact, which leaves two options: 1) blocked contact or 2) manipulated contact if these terms make sense.
Still haven't made it to the court. Still am editing through addition. What somebody like me wants to do, if studying the Cruz and Waltke articles, is continue to the link at the bottom of the Waltke article, which gets you to Sutherland slice.
All this material shows Budge and Rosewall getting arm straight sooner than Waltke, who starts straightening at same time but doesn't finish till shortly before contact.
Another topic to think about (along with whether Cruz fantasized a Detroit club) is whether to lower front shoulder for this shot or keep shoulders level like Muscles.
Tilting shoulders down is certainly one way to beef up contact with a weak continental. Another way is to roll arm a bit more. No matter which option I elect twenty minutes from now, I'll never forget a club championship I witnessed
at the Crooked Run Racquet and Fitness Center in Front Royal, Virginia.
This was a top flight mixed doubles tournament. One of the competing women was Swiss and very attractive and from the diplomatic corps in Washington, D.C.
We kidded about the relative height of mountains in Virginia and Switzerland.
What did she have for shots? Everything seemed ordinary, except for her backhand slice, and she and her partner got all the way to the final. Somewhere in the middle, around the quarter-finals, they played a match that wasn't so good.
She forgot to get her front shoulder down, she told me, didn't dig enough and lean on the ball, but by the final she was doing that again.
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