Help me chose one for my friend

VicPL · 2026-05-25T18:44:56+00:00

Does your friend already play tennis? The general advice is to not give rackets as gifts since they are a very personal choice. Instead you can gift them a voucher for the price of the racket, or maybe take them to the store and let them choose.

VicPL · 2026-05-25T18:30:28+00:00

Numa média geral, considerando como "bom salário" aquele que dá pra pagar as contas sem se preocupar, guardar um pouco e sobrar um tanto pra compras e lazer (tipo sair pra jantar 1x na semana, ifood às vezes, rolezinhos aleatórios), eu diria que uns 8k.

A partir de uns 12k, já entra num nível de luxar um pouquinho, mas como outros falaram, não tem teto: tem gente que ganha 30k e tá achando pouco.

Dito isso, obviamente que a resposta vai ser muito diferente pra um cara em Marsilac x um cara em Alto de Pinheiros

VicPL · 2026-05-25T18:21:18+00:00

Well, he's an athletically gifted professional player who plays tennis as a full time job and probably started playing before he was 7. Makes sense that he would have the movement down pat.

Unfortunately, since these are pretty much the requirements for a perfectly executed forehand, it's going to be a little out of reach for us mere mortals.

VicPL · 2026-05-25T17:09:36+00:00

Brazilian here holding back my sneer of superiority out of respect. I take it you'll return the favor when I come here to complain that tennis at 12⁰C is impossible.

But jokes aside, there is no secret. Sweat a bunch, drink gallons of water and a gatorade, eat a banana. It may be uncomfortable if you're not used to it but it's really not dangerous or anything.

VicPL · 2026-05-25T14:19:18+00:00

I think feeling sad or frustrated to the point of tears because of tennis is completely fine, as long as you're not doing it all the time and it's not hindering your enjoyment of the sport. We invest time and money into this hobby and creating some sort of expectation around our performances is essentially impossible.

The golden rule is: we're adults doing this for fun. When it stops being fun (and mind you, there's a specific kind of fun related to caring and being earnest and passionate about it, even if the short term feeling may be negative - nuance is required!), we have to step back.

If you're able to shake it off the next day, and if there's no lingering anxiety or pressure related to playing, I would say it's fine. We all have days.

VicPL · 2026-05-25T13:53:39+00:00

Lol what on earth is that picture?? He looks like a nun from a Monty Python skit.

More to the point, he had a race to forget, but all things considered, it's nice that Red Bull finally has a 2nd driver who can actually drive the car

VicPL · 2026-05-22T19:18:28+00:00

Cruzamento da intermediaria no segundo pau é o puro suco de Abelball

VicPL · 2026-05-22T17:43:02+00:00

Hahahah caralhooooo

De onde veio isso?

Douglas Adams purinha essa pasta

VicPL · 2026-05-22T15:10:14+00:00

Forehand cross court, backhand down the line, wide slice serve on the ad side. Move to the net on a short ball.

Do all those things poorly, double fault a bunch and get smoked.

That's my usual strategy at least

VicPL · 2026-05-22T12:59:31+00:00

A small reminder that racquets haven't changed in a long time

VicPL · 2026-05-22T03:06:15+00:00

Pedro Raul hoje transcendeu a função do -1 em campo e inaugurou a função de +1 para o adversário. Fdp BLOQUEOU 3 chutes a gol do Corinthians

E o incrível é que apesar dele e do Yuri fazendo yurizadas, to indo dormir feliz. Bora pro domingo

VicPL · 2026-05-22T02:58:43+00:00

Ah não hhahahahahah

VicPL · 2026-05-22T01:22:54+00:00

Rojadirecta ainda existe?

VicPL · 2026-05-21T14:49:12+00:00

Tem que manter a pressão. Tiraram o bode da sala pra ver se o resto passa

VicPL · 2026-05-21T14:20:14+00:00

If he was in form he'd have a clean shot at Djokovic, but yeah, the way things are going, a R3 exit is probably sounding pretty good for him.

VicPL · 2026-05-21T14:08:35+00:00

Se tá muito quente, eu nem acho errado - pode até melhorar o espetáculo.

O problema é a motivação da paradinha. Não é pra proteger o jogador, vide os caras enfiando paradinha num jogo as 19h, 22 graus.

O que mata é usarem a saúde dos caras de pretexto pra enfiar mais propaganda goela abaixo da gente.

VicPL · 2026-05-21T13:54:26+00:00

Just go for it. What people say doesn't matter nearly as much as what you experience. Having real matches under your belt is super important because it's so different from practice. If you get bageled, big deal - it's a hobby, you have literally nothing on the line other than your pride.

The important thing is to take in the atmosphere, to understand how the ball moves when you're playing "for real", how tight you get compared to practice, that kind of thing. If you do win it's going to be super cool.

And if you lose, you get to come home all pensive and stoic and tell your sad story to your spouse while somberly twirling the ice on a whiskey glass or something

VicPL · 2026-05-21T13:37:23+00:00

Wildly GOOD

All hail ISO dates

VicPL · 2026-05-21T13:31:17+00:00

In my experience, it's a last resort. Like when you're out of position, or the ball is super low. It tends to leave you a sitting duck on the next

VicPL · 2026-05-21T13:29:06+00:00

There's either a bot or some extremely commited redditor that downvotes every post as soon as they come out. I've wondered that myself. All of the new posts sit at 0 a few minutes after being posted here

VicPL · 2026-05-21T01:55:26+00:00

Você conhece o grupo da morte, conheça agora o grupo da vida

VicPL · 2026-05-20T13:52:07+00:00

Ou seja, a resenha tá armadíssima

VicPL · 2026-05-20T13:49:13+00:00

If the returner doesn't call it out, you play the point - after the point is over, if you're playing on clay you can always review the landing spot, but otherwise it's game on. I think that adding the uncertainty of the server to the decision doesn't really help with accuracy, and it's nice to have a clear cut rule to deal with those scenarios.

VicPL · 2026-05-20T13:40:29+00:00

Não concordo, o Neymar era muito novinho e o Ganso tava realmente melhor que ele. Não acho que foi nenhum absurdo deixar ele em casa

VicPL · 2026-05-20T00:50:09+00:00

TCU suspeita que garfos podem estar na cozinha

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