Talk About Tennis 2.0

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 31, 2025 1:33 am Nope. I hate adjacent courts with no separations. You are always picking up balls from the court next to yours.

Something to keep an eye on for the NA hardcourt season: At the USO last year, 1st serve%s dipped (down to 57%) and double fault rates skyrocketed (close to Medvedev's seasonal average) due to the hard-to-control balls being used. This trend appears to be repeating itself in Canada so far.
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If you look at the completed ATP matches so far there are a ton of sub-60% 1st serve rates

Iga Swiatek in her interview on Roddick's podcast also said that the balls seem much lighter to her when practicing with them and that they're much harder to control

This also has rallying implications as well because the Cincy/USO balls last year tended to not take spin very well at all which was part of the reason certain high ranked players had massive issues keeping it in play

At first it might seem like grasping at straws but there have been some pretty clear massive swings in results among even high ranked players with different ball conditions and Iga outright said it herself

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 31, 2025 1:33 am Nope. I hate adjacent courts with no separations. You are always picking up balls from the court next to yours.