Twenty year old Earnest Gulbis made history this summer as the first Latvian to reach a slam quarter final at Wimbledon, falling to Rafa 5-7, 6-2, 7-6 (7-2) 6-3 in a match that was unexpectedly competitive. This month we study...
The reverse forehand: where Nadal gets his game. A few years ago, I wrote an article for Tennisplayer on the...
Unlike other players, Nadal opens his racket face slightly at the start of the backswing. Over the last couple of...
A player's technical foundation lasts a lifetime, for better or worse. Starting your child out right. That’s the key to what’s going to happen down the road. Unfortunately, it’s probably the most neglected part of development. The foundation laid down...
The Favorite and the Underdog: what were the match dynamics? In the quarterfinals of the 2008 U.S. Open the third seed Novak Djokovic defeated the eighth seed Andy Roddick in four sets. Yes, the big “story” of the Open was...
Talk about destiny. In my wildest dreams I could not have imagined the course of the events that unfolded from such a simple request when, last March, John Yandell forwarded me an email from an Italian father with questions regarding...
Two great players demonstrate the incredible diversity and complexity of the modern forehand. No doubt that the two most talked about forehands in the men's game belong to Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. But they couldn't appear to be more...
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