So, Djokovic, Nadal and Andy Murray are all going to play doubles in Indian Wells over the next 10 days. Djokovic partners fellow Serb Victor Troicki; Murray his bro Jamie and Nadal with his pal Marc Lopez. My favourite doubles team in recent times was Bunk and McNulty on 'The Wire' but since that no longer runs, I'm all in on watching the world's best singles players play some dubs.
Volleying is to doubles what eggs are to bacon, so hopefully these guys will venture forward and not just play singles crosscourt. Speaking of volleying and improving your volleys, my favourite intermediate to advanced volleying exercise is to hit volleys with the ptwinsock pro trainer. For those of you that don't know, the winsock is a light weight that you can slide on to your racket and hit all shots with except the serve.
From my point of view you get an awesome feel of stopping the hand at contact on the volley and I also love hitting slice backhands with it. If you stop the hand at contact you're going to hit knife like volleys and just sliding something on your racket and getting the feel for it takes the thought process away. So with the winsock you really slay two dragons (how to do something as well as thinking) in one go.
And in case you were wondering, if there was ever a 'Wire' singles tournament then Omar and his sawed-off shotgun are at the top of the draw with Freamon - the wily vet - seeded second and McNulty destined to play some inspired tennis for the first few rounds before self destructing in a mountain of unforced errors and brainfarts in the quarters.
But heah, it's all in the game.
Volleying is to doubles what eggs are to bacon, so hopefully these guys will venture forward and not just play singles crosscourt. Speaking of volleying and improving your volleys, my favourite intermediate to advanced volleying exercise is to hit volleys with the ptwinsock pro trainer. For those of you that don't know, the winsock is a light weight that you can slide on to your racket and hit all shots with except the serve.
From my point of view you get an awesome feel of stopping the hand at contact on the volley and I also love hitting slice backhands with it. If you stop the hand at contact you're going to hit knife like volleys and just sliding something on your racket and getting the feel for it takes the thought process away. So with the winsock you really slay two dragons (how to do something as well as thinking) in one go.
And in case you were wondering, if there was ever a 'Wire' singles tournament then Omar and his sawed-off shotgun are at the top of the draw with Freamon - the wily vet - seeded second and McNulty destined to play some inspired tennis for the first few rounds before self destructing in a mountain of unforced errors and brainfarts in the quarters.
But heah, it's all in the game.
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