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So, here's a play you can run that's gonna help you win a lot more singles matches.
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Now,
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first,
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this video is courtesy of 12kgp-Tennis on YouTube.
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Make sure you subscribe to their awesome channel.
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I've put their link in the description below.
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All right,
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I'm gonna let you watch two points.
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They're very similar points,
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and then we'll diagram them.
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All right,
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so this is a match between Krueger and Taylor Fritz,
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and the idea is very simple.
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It's called 2-1.
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This is the concept of hitting two shots
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to one side of the court
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to open up
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one shot
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into the other side of the court.
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And oftentimes,
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you don't even need this
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because
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this right here
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wins the point.
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So,
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let's look at this serve.
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Now,
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this serve is actually a body serve and it comes to Taylor's left side.
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So, he moves out of the way to make this a backhand.
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It's a strong serve.
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It's deep in the box
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and it gets on Taylor very quickly,
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so he chooses a backhand.
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He's just reacting to this ball.
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Now,
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when he does this,
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notice where he ends up.
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He ends up in
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the doubles alley.
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If your shot,
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whether it's a serve or a ground stroke,
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when your shot pulls your opponent
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into the doubles alley,
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they need to now quickly recover.
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And when they're recovering quickly,
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you can use that to your advantage.
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If we look at Krueger,
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he's hitting the ball right now.
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Now,
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look where Taylor is.
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His brain is thinking,
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you know what,
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I've got to be prepared for this.
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We can see that Krueger is inside the court.
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So, taking the ball down the line and
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just ripping this ball down the line would absolutely
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make sense strategically.
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So,
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Taylor is moving across
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to protect that shot.
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But what Krueger does is he decides to actually hit the ball right
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here
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or
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close to there.
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So watch his shot.
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Watch where this ball lands.
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It lands near the service line and actually wrong foots Taylor,
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who is moving back to the center.
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So, that's the 2-1 strategy where you
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hit two shots and on the serve,
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obviously,
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you're serving to this side because it's your
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serve and that's the rules to serve cross-court.
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But you can use your serve as the first of those two.
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And then as your opponent is recovering,
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you can hit again back behind them.
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Now here,
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Taylor
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does the exact same thing
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against Krueger.
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So, Taylor,
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instead of hitting the body serve
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that moved,
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you know,
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Taylor out wide when Krueger was serving,
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what Taylor does is he actually serves out wide
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and that pulls Krueger over.
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So, not only is Krueger outside the singles line,
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he's outside the doubles line too.
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So, now he has to recover quickly.
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If he doesn't,
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then Taylor can just hit it down the line for a winner.
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So, Krueger is coming back,
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and sometimes in this situation,
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your opponent just has to guess and just is sprinting to this other side.
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So, Taylor decides to spin it and actually purposely hits short,
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which actually helps create a better angle,
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and he spins the ball and watch sorry,
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watch Taylor here.
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I'm sorry,
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watch Krueger,
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he's running and he's got to come back.
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You know,
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he's gotta have his body facing this direction
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as Taylor is hitting.
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He really cannot square up his body
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and face forward because he's got to get over fast enough.
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And that's because Taylor hit the ball so wide
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that Krueger had to run fast to get back into the court.
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And that's when Taylor's using that speed
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that Krueger is using to get into the middle of the court against him
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in order to hit behind him.
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All right,
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let's watch these two points again.
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Now
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the exact 2-1 strategy, we just saw the pros using is included
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in the singles playbook from Fuzzy Yellow balls.
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It's over 50 pages play after play on how to beat your toughest opponents,
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and on page 10,
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there it is,
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the 2-1.
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What's really cool with every play in this book,
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there's a QR code.
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Hold up your tablet or your phone up over
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the QR code up pops a video automatically of Will Hamilton from
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Fuzzy Yellow Balls teaching you exactly how to use that play.
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You can grab the link for the singles playbook in the description.
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It's also pinned in the first comment.
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And if you're looking for new people in your local area to find,
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maybe you have a group of friends and people you play tennis with,
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but you want a kind of a better challenge.
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You want stronger players in your local
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area.
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You want to find those people,
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then use my link for Play Your Court,
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and it's playyourcourt.com/2minutetennis.
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You'll find people to play against,
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practice with,
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and even find coaches who are gonna help you up your game.
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All you gotta do is go in the description and in the first comment,
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and you'll find the links both for Play Your Court and for the singles playbook.
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All right,
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we had,
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let's take Taylor Fritz first.
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He served out wide that pulled Kruger off the court.
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Now in the 2-1,
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you can do this off of a serve as part of, you know, the set up for this,
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or you can just do it with a ground stroke,
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but
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you hit the ball so that it pulls your opponent off the court.
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So, that's
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the first shot of the two.
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Then when they recover,
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they have to be
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coming back pretty fast because they're afraid you're
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gonna hit it into the open court,
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which is actually called 1-1,
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right?
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So, you hit the first shot out wide,
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now you can,
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if they hit short,
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you can hit behind them
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where you know the opponent has to come to the center,
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so you can actually hit behind them.
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Now
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if they get that ball back and now they're scrambling,
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they're
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back way off the court again,
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completely off balance.
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That's what sets up the ability
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to hit into the open court.
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So, that's the two shots to one corner,
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one shot in the other corner.
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With Krueger and Fritz,
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they actually won the point with just the 2,
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the 2 shots into the same corner.
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And you're gonna find that with your opponents that
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you don't even have to hit that third shot
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into the open court,
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that just pulling your opponent off the court
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and every once in a while as they're recovering,
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you hit behind them,
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you're gonna win the point outright.
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Then guess what happens?
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We try to layer onto this.
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They start thinking,
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oh,
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I got pulled over.
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I'm gonna hang out here a little bit because they're gonna try to
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hit behind me and then you start noticing that they're hanging out,
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hitting into the open court,
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which is the 1-1,
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and then they feel like,
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"Oh my gosh,
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no matter what I do,
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I'm gonna lose to this person."
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That's good for you.
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Start working on the 2-1 single strategy,
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and there's no doubt.
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You're gonna gain confidence,
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win more matches,
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and play much better tennis.
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This is Ryan Reidy from 2MinuteTennis.net.
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You got this.