Tennis Oxygen

In order to truly understand this next article, you should read the article I wrote about shot perception. Too often my students make the common mistake to gauge the effectiveness of their shot based on what it felt like hitting the ball versus how did their shot affect their opponents. Many players make the assumption that a hard hit ball is an offensive shot while a “blooper”, “dink”, “shank” or a ball hit with no pace is defensive. Learning to evaluate your shot based on the outcome and not what it looked like or felt like is the secret to understanding how to anticipate.

So lets get to the two most common examples of when bad is good and good is bad.

1. When bad is good