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Use This Perfect Singles Aiming Strategy (Easily Win More Tennis Matches)

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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.
Title:
Use This Perfect Singles Aiming Strategy (Easily Win More Tennis Matches)
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Video Language:
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Team:
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Duration:
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