tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 27/09/2026That poaching volley from Demon is 100% in contrast to Fritz' volleying. de Minaur has the hands to awkwardly maneuver the racquet to make the needed volley 100
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is not to hate on Taylor Fritz, but his total discomfort at the net, especially for an American raised on hard courts, is a failure of coaching from the time he first started playing (i.e., not so much now). 011
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hey, @tennischannel.bsky.social , you break away from deuce, Team World serving to save the first set at 4/5, for a raft of commercials? What gives? 100
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I missed most of the Fritz/Alcaraz match after 2/3s of the way into the first. Let me know, is it emblematic that Fritz' last shot was a short, low ball he had to take in the forecourt? #nothisfavoritespotonthecourt 200
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Have to be honest, I've never been a huge fan of @lavercup.bsky.social , for a bunch of reasons, but today's two singles matches were simply outstanding, tactically and psychologically. Tennis pros playing like it's a club match, really really wanting to win for their mates. Just great 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So. Many. Balls. Up. The. Middle-ish. #nervesmuch? 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A great serve is a good thing to have 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Really fascinating; earlier (and w/Tien) Agassi focuses on tactics, now it's all emotion that he's sending Demon's way 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I'd never contend that one match has as much potential weight as this, but... The French and US winner shows he's a new, stable force on tour, or doesn't... Demon partially salvages a soft year with a gutsy win over the two time major winner 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Great flippin' point, so well played by de Minaur 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Thought that 15/15 point could be pressure-filled. Double fault by AZ 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 26/09/2026De Minaur/Zverev, another match that's proving to be a fine example of tactics-needed-to-be-figured-out *and* executed. Demon lost at sea in the first set, finding his footing in the second 010
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Luv listening to Mark Petchey, but I don't see how we can call Zverev's tennis atm "unstoppable" given how the court conditions are 100% in his favor and 100% *not* in Demon's. 100
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just gold from AA: don't underestimate the value of length, plain and simple 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Others may not like it, but I think that was fabulous. Even if it is only @lavercup.bsky.social : ) 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This Tien/Cobolli match is so fascinating. Not great tennis from a "shots they're making" angle, but an example of how what works @ the club level operates for the pros too. Producing what's needed at the moment isn't easy evn if the hitting's not tough. (Court surface having a lot to do with it.) 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Very chuffed to have had the chance to talk about the Aussie great, Lew Hoad, with Hall of Fame member Richard Evans and 1975 world #8, Aussie John Alexander. All thanks to @saqiba.bsky.social and the Tennis With An Accent Podcast. Insights into tennis techniqe and anecdotes galore.podcasts.apple.comBarstool Conversation - The mighty Lew HoadPodcast Episode · Tennis with an Accent · September 25 · 1h 11m 113
Reposted by @tennis-skip1515.bsky.socialTennis Updates @tennisupdates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Davis Cup Finals Draw: 3174
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Look, I understand the challenges of making doubles, especially ATP doubles, a profitable and popular part of the pro tour. But it's hard to say tennis, in the macro, is doing all it can when the landing page for the #USOpen doesn't even mention who's made it, just today!, to the men's dub finals 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 09/09/2026During her match vs Kalinskaya it was commented upon that Navarro's coach, Peter Ayers, called out to her that she was "earning this" as Kalinskaya committed multiple UEs in the third set, and how that was an example of great coaching (to which I'd agree) 010
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 08/09/2026He won, and congratulations, but it's hard to undersand how Khachanov, at 6'6", can not have been at the net at least once in the last 3 games, allowing Tien to float defensive shots again and again? Seems to me it makes for a hard slog, but he got the W 010
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 06/09/2026It wasn't that long ago that many tennis journalists and fans were bemoaning that with modern power "there'll never be another McEnroe." My retort was, "How many McEnroe's have there been, period? It's a silly metric." Today we have Jenson Brooksby, Lerner Tien, & Adrian Mannarino in the top 100 1/2 120
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Jess Pegula doing a very good job of channeling Novak in lockdown mode vs Fernandez. Not a style we might expect from Pegula, but smart and v effective right now 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Tennis' scoring system is a thing of beauty 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Yes. Similarly, it's reasonable to believe that increased prize money, mostly at the upper levels but really all down the rankings (not enough yet, but...), has made it easier to not play as often. All in all a good thing 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It wasn't enough for the #USOpen to make a mockery of the mixed doubles competition by dissing ranked players w/putting them in qualifying (for an exo of made-up teams, for goodness sake), they had to go and deny past champion @StanWawrinka a wlldcard in favor of...someone ranked in the 200s. #shame 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 18/08/2026@usta and @ebutorac you should be ashamed (sorry, but true) over the insult your @usopen mixed doubles draw is to the competition, its history, and ranked mixed doubles players 010
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 18/08/2026On top of which the winners get a Big Four title for having played an invitational exo, and a USTA gold ball that for decades thousands have dreamed of *earning* 000
Reposted by @tennis-skip1515.bsky.socialOptaAce @optaace.optajoe.com · 14/08/20269 - This is Iga Swiatek's ninth WTA-1000 final win against a WTA-1000 champion, surpassing Aryna Sabalenka (8) for the outright-most such wins of any player since the format's introduction in 2009. Legitimate. #NBO26 | @wtatour.bsky.social 1132
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Can you imagine how much better Ken Rosewall would have been had he occasionally shown a fist pump? #sheesh 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 23/07/2026But between her hesitant footwork (less than gainly) and the rather iron elbow shove of the ball, it was born of nerves (we all get them), [it] wasn’t no drop shot. link: www.si.com/tennis/what-... 3/3endsi.comWhat Tennis Could Learn From the World CupWould third-place matches work at majors? Plus, a check-in on Félix Auger-Aliassime and more in this week’s mailbag. 100
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 23/07/2026What Gauff did is more properly called (by many, but not in the text books) a dump; she hit down on the ball, or we could say she was looking to just pop it over, and had it successfully gone over she’d have won the point. 2/3 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Me, at Wertheim's Tennis Mailbag: Can we dispense w/calling Coco Gauff’s missed ball from mid-court, at match pnt, a drop shot? Drop shots are hit w/more or less underspin, but definitely w/an open racket face and ideally hit up so they drop more vertically and not forwards (see also: underspin) 1/3 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 22/07/2026As the ITF ("World Tennis?" Really?) & the tours push the 1000s, an undescribed vision of "only major tournaments in major cities", and continue on a similar path with Davis Cup home/away ties, opportunities for fans to see live tennis or find new favorite players will just decrease, simple as that. 010
Reposted by @tennis-skip1515.bsky.socialMert Ertunga @tennisnerdmert.bsky.social · 15/07/2026#Wimbledon review with Matt Zemek, @adbtennis.bsky.social and @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social -- hosted by podmaster @saqiba.bsky.social 👇🏼👇🏼 open.spotify.com/episode/4pa7...open.spotify.comWimbledon Review ShowTennis with an Accent · Episode 122
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Whoa, but did we cover all the facets of the Wimbledon finals, or what? With Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social and Mert Ertunga @tennisnerdmert.bsky.social on the Tennis With An Accent podcast todaypodcasts.apple.com 013
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I spy with my little eye...Stan Smith in the Royal Box 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I spy with my little eye...Jan Kodes in the Royal Box 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I'm sorry, Rafa would never, ever, have returned that last serve w/a mishit and then not run for his life to the open court. 110
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 12/07/2026What's happened to those never-seen-before forceful forehands from Zverev? A raft of tepid forehands lately 110
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 12/07/2026We *could* go through the last 2 weeks of matches for other examples, but suffice it to say this men's final puts to rest any claims of grass court tennis being a lesser version of the sport 100
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Looking pretty iron-poor-blood 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 11/07/2026It's only hold-break-hold for Muchova, but certainly feels/seems a bigger ask than that 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Coming up, Barry MacKay's seventh game... 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Muchova as Noskova right where she wants her... : ) 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Anyone else sense the irony of Muchova being where she is – about to serve for the second set – because she's been the last person to get the ball in play since first going down match point? 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Life is so much easier when you make first serves... 000
tennis-skip1515.bsky.social @tennis-skip1515.bsky.social · 11/07/2026What is the opposite of flow state? 000
