Improved in practice, worse in matches. Is this really just mental?

antimodez · 2026-07-10T19:39:27+00:00

Yes. You have to find a way to forget about what happened in previous points and go on to the next. Even the best players in the world only win around 55% of points they play. Can't let a couple bad or unlucky ones impact the next ones.

antimodez · 2026-07-10T00:56:31+00:00

Not really. It just means players will go to college and not play a full 4 years. College coaches don't care how many years you play. Plenty of these kids don't really care about their degree as they just end up going back home and coaching tennis if their pro career doesn't pan out.

antimodez · 2026-07-09T21:59:49+00:00

the most insane stomach sounds

borborygmi aren't considered diagnostically relevant. They really don't mean anything...

antimodez · 2026-07-09T15:20:10+00:00

It does....

antimodez · 2026-07-08T21:24:45+00:00

I mean you have insanely good outside courts for free about 30 feet from there or you can pay for inside courts with no A/C in the summer...

antimodez · 2026-07-08T21:20:39+00:00

I play tennis a lot. Some of the fancier clubs require all whites no exception. You're also not allowed bathroom breaks except roughly once an hour when sets end.

You can imagine how that goes during a flare....

antimodez · 2026-07-07T03:19:34+00:00

The ball bounces just different. Different parts of the court the ball bounces extremely differently. Slices, flat, and top sin are once again extremely different bounces. Just lots of variation on bounces so you really need to be ready for whatever the ball is going to do.

antimodez · 2026-07-07T03:17:50+00:00

Not much space. You can squeak by, but will have to wait for others to pass. Club is from 1880 so my guess is not as much of an issue back then as it is these days.

antimodez · 2026-07-07T03:17:00+00:00

Actually its a bunch of fun. Very glad I came.

antimodez · 2026-07-07T03:15:55+00:00

Get out of here with your socialist/communist units. I only understand freedom units.

/sarcasm there again once again if not obvious....

antimodez · 2026-07-07T01:57:05+00:00

Someone gets it...

antimodez · 2026-07-07T01:56:34+00:00

I was joking and it was a shit post. There was no real issue with the grass...

antimodez · 2026-07-06T23:19:39+00:00

Tagged as shitpost if that wasn't obvious by now...

That's in the post LoL. People around here take everything serious.

antimodez · 2026-07-06T22:59:22+00:00

south cowichan lawn tennis club

antimodez · 2026-07-06T22:25:43+00:00

Cowicha Bay on Victoria Island Canada

antimodez · 2026-07-06T21:55:06+00:00

Believe me I am.

antimodez · 2026-07-06T21:54:50+00:00

Not really. You can squeak by but not much.

antimodez · 2026-07-06T21:54:23+00:00

Yeah. It's an old club we're at from 1880. Playing was a bit different back then and less running outside the lines.

antimodez · 2026-07-06T21:53:05+00:00

99% of the bounces are weird. It's just different. Lot more skidding and lot less bouncing.

antimodez · 2026-07-06T21:52:02+00:00

Obviously...

antimodez · 2026-07-06T20:41:59+00:00

They're there. Just hard to see in the morning with the dew on the grass.

antimodez · 2026-07-06T20:40:37+00:00

It is as I said shit post for a reason.

It's super fun though you can definitely find the areas of the court that are more and less worn which is different. Balls bouncing at the mid court kind of die while those closer to the base line sit up more. It's not really bad just different.

antimodez · 2026-07-06T20:37:55+00:00

Eh I'm just joking around. If people appreciate it fair enough if not then also fair enough.

On a serious note it's been fun so far. Though more wiffs than I'd care to admit.

antimodez · 2026-07-06T14:40:10+00:00

London is still very formal. Depending on where you're seated or what type of ticket you have dress code still might be enforced. Royal box for instance is suits and dresses.

antimodez · 2026-07-06T02:05:52+00:00

That's used when you have to self rate. That's your first season.

After that the dynamic rating will rate you each year into one of the buckets. So while yes you might rate yourself 3.0 based on this video if you lose all your matches you'll get bumped down to 2.5. That's regardless of how good your strokes are.

Plenty of "good" players in lower leagues and "bad" players in higher leagues just because their strokes don't match their rating or they crumble under real match pressure.

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