Sunday, January 17, 2016

Looking forward to playing Jay C again. This last time he only won 1-6, 7-5 (10-7). I was up 6-1, 3-1 when I fell apart. I think switching to the max p really helped me get that far. Now I've made a couple changes that I think will take me further.
1. Remembering to lean down, keep my head down, on groundstrokes. This will hopefully stop me from getting tentative and having my groundstrokes fall apart. Seems to work.
2. Tossing the ball while not otherwise doing anything. Thus a much higher ball toss. Combining this with a platform stance similar to Fed/Sampras.The ball toss was so so much more consistent the one time I've done this.

After splitting sets with Jay C I then played Alex V and played pretty bad and won 6-3, 7-6. He also played very well. Then 4.5 doubles and played very well. At one point won 8 games in a row and was the best player on the court. I really do well with doubles when I crowd the net as tall as I am. My serve was erratic this day though. I then played a 65 or so year old guy who was really pretty decent. I won 6-1, 6-2 and felt like my groundstrokes were really shaky. He was doing a good job of hitting short low balls. And in return I was slicing a lot and coming to the net. And I played the net very well.

Then played Ab M with doing the two things mentioned above and won 6-0, 6-1, 6-0. This was also the first time weighting the Max P up to 13 ounces. Had a lot of balls just catching the tape or barely long. But my serve was the best it's ever been. Both a high percentage of first serves in and plenty hitting the lines. Ab M couldn't get the ball back. Was really hitting up the T well, though need to improve my out wide accuracy.

Also increased the tension up to 55 on the mains the last few times. I suppose I have very slightly less power. And do have more control. And it isn't hurting my arm. Not feeling the topspin though. Find myself just wanting to hit flat mostly. Topspin does add so much more of a calculation and even at a higher tension not so sure of the consistency of how the ball comes off the racquet with much topspin.

Unable to do anything outdoors and feeling stir crazy at the moment.