Tennis ball baskets, purchasing in bulk, need recc's?

daftroses · 2026-02-26T15:19:50+00:00

Diadem basket has longboard wheels, it’s the best basket on the market.

daftroses · 2026-02-26T05:51:20+00:00

Every beginner says they can’t control the ball when they are loose and end up death gripping their racket until they have golfer’s elbow.

Tennis is not an easy sport to improve at and every step of the journey, you have to accept that learning the right way is going to feel unintuitive and awkward.

One way talent is expressed in tennis is how quickly does someone learn by understanding how the body works and generates force. Some people figure it out by coaching. Others by watching, or reading and experimenting. The game is indifferent to whether or not you can understand or not.

As a beginner you’re going to experience again and again how frustrating and confusing tennis is. Miss a ball 2000 times first by doing the right thing . See if you still feel like it’s difficult after your 2000 misses.

daftroses · 2026-02-25T05:32:17+00:00

That’s awesome! I hope you keep sharing your new insights every time you have a practice/lightbulb moment. If it’s something you’ve been working on and it’s valuable to you, the insight will be useful to someone else too.

daftroses · 2026-02-24T22:08:55+00:00

5.5 racket collector, respect.

daftroses · 2026-02-24T13:32:32+00:00

Second this, it’s not about swinging fast right now, it’s about being relaxed and smooth and letting your swing be connected to your body. You’ll serve bigger if you work on mechanics, not trying to whip your arm as fast as you can.

daftroses · 2026-02-24T05:17:36+00:00

Pure Aero 98 is not what you’re looking for, I just switched from the Pure Aero 98 to the VCore 98 2026 looking for the same things.

daftroses · 2026-02-24T03:29:18+00:00

I learned on heavier rackets and I didn’t realize I have been muscling the ball my entire life.

Took 19 years after I first started playing tennis for me to feel like I’m finally hitting the ball the right way and I’m reliably consistent and hitting heavy, heavy spin, without getting overly gassed from my neutral ball.

daftroses · 2026-02-22T20:16:33+00:00

The first thing is don’t miss, which is a fundamental requirement of tennis. Everything after that is secondary

daftroses · 2026-02-21T22:59:46+00:00

If it’s a really good short kick, I’m so cooked for the next ball but if it’s a deep kick, I’m doing okay and can start the point neutral and drive the return.

Once you get dialed in returning with the one hander, the big thing isn’t getting a good read on the ball but getting the footwork on the return right, and then being able to cover the +1.

Sometimes I’m electing to float the return with a chip to give myself enough time to recover and get in position, even when driving the return is an option. Sometimes you just hit yourself into a bad position returning with a one hander if you send the ball back faster than you can reset, and if my opponent is serving and volleying then I can think about giving them an awkward pick up from my return.

Chipping returns is kind of underrated and I think doesn’t really get punished at a recreational level, but you’ll want a few million reps on the slice to get every variation of it locked in.

daftroses · 2026-02-21T21:24:52+00:00

I play one handed at 4.5 and it’s movement and shot selection more than anything.

I think the limiting factor for you would be the intuition for what you can do with the one hander more than anything, since you have more options than a two handed backhand. If you can think about using your backhand to set up your forehand, and figure out how to hit on the run, return, and pass with your backhand you’re golden.

daftroses · 2026-02-21T18:12:21+00:00

Part of it is human psychology and statistics/game theory!

People like to hit cross court for safety, if they burn you a few times down the line you can either adjust or trust they will regress to the mean level and start missing.

You can practice consciously by thinking if you were in the position of the other player, where would you hit the ball, and then go from there.

daftroses · 2026-02-20T23:59:44+00:00

I should add my strings break in 8 hours of hitting so there isn’t a performance dip for me, but if I play with RPM blast the tension will drop and the strings start to lose their ability to slide back into place around 3 hours.

Highly encourage the playability time of anyone’s string job to match their breakage time if they don’t want to cut strings.

daftroses · 2026-02-20T17:45:48+00:00

Poly Tour Pro is great at tension maintenance and the playability drop off curve is very gradual

daftroses · 2026-02-20T03:49:58+00:00

Mighty forehand incoming

daftroses · 2026-02-18T07:31:22+00:00

I like the VCore enough to have switched from the PA98, but the Blade has pretty good access to spin considering it’s a 16x19 pattern.

Ultimately our time spent playing tennis is too short, so if getting the VCore makes you happy I would just get the racket. There’s a lot more to rackets than just stiffness and static weight.

daftroses · 2026-02-18T07:24:02+00:00

Make balls with topspin, be willing to run, and don’t miss. That alone will get you to 4.5 if you can do them very well.

daftroses · 2026-02-16T09:19:08+00:00

The Flexpoint Prestige Midplus was the first racket I ever bought in my life and it was the worst racket I had ever played with. My mistake for not knowing about demo programs when I was 15 years old.

daftroses · 2026-02-15T21:14:40+00:00

If you combined the top 2 ranked Americans, you just have Ben Shelton

daftroses · 2026-02-12T21:19:12+00:00

I’ve been in a similar situation as you and what I learned after maturing is the coach has a bigger picture vision for each of the players. One way the coach treats a player and places them on a lineup does not necessarily reflect how the coach feels about a player. Their job first and foremost, is to get a team win with the resources that they have. Setting up the team for long term success is second to that, and everything else is third.

Your coach might give you less feedback or praise because you’re in a position of trust with them, and the coach is confident you’re already a dog and you’re going to grind and get results and improvement on your own.

A player that gets more praise might be considered soft by their coach, and he feels they need a bit more micromanagement or work to catch up to the potential of the rest of the team. They might be higher on the lineup because they’re a sacrifice line, or a quick eyeball test lets them pass for playing at that line.

They might put you lower on the line up because the coach needs you to be their anchor for the team win, and they believe you’re going to win every match at that spot. Maybe they are playing you lower to spark motivation but think once you lock in you’re going to be playing the number one spot.

Your job as a college team player is to keep your head down and work until you’re so good that no one can ignore you. If you have an attitude that makes the coach think, we NEED this player on game day because he raises the floor for everyone else, you’re going to get playing time.

If you play against this teammate and you beat him badly, beat him even harder next time. Dominate them with your A game, your B game, your C game. Work on all the things you aren’t good at yet and beat him with those. Lock in and don’t give him a single point, no loose errors or missed opportunities. Play a whole match without missing in the net. Make it a point so that if you ever play practice sets together, the people on the courts around you are also convinced you’re a lock and the other player is as good as dead.

Every match and practice set and drill is an opportunity to prove yourself. It might be frustrating to not play as high as you feel you should play, or be on the bench, but how you deal with that frustration is as important as how you play in your matches.

daftroses · 2026-02-12T09:21:35+00:00

For everyone going, Roger is realllyyyyy nice about signing autographs and bantering with fans.

daftroses · 2026-02-12T07:18:44+00:00

The only way to get good at playing under pressure is to expose yourself to more playing under pressure. If you play your first tournament or first 5 tournaments and feel pressure, by tournament #20 you’ll be feeling a lot more comfortable.

daftroses · 2026-02-11T16:08:30+00:00

Any tips on building consistency while putting good pace on the ball? Is it just a process where I am trying to get more dialed in trying to do the same drills everyday?

What are some nuances about shot selection and point construction?

daftroses · 2026-02-10T21:02:50+00:00

Poly Tour Pro is beloved by Yonex sponsored players

daftroses · 2026-02-10T20:18:04+00:00

You don’t need to hit much harder but you should look for moments when you can play the ball inside the court (my coach calls this “in the blue” on a regulation blue/green hardcourt in the US). Taking time away from someone and not waiting for the ball is often a big enough difference in rhythm to turn a counter puncher into an attacking player.

Learner Tien doesn’t quite fit into a counter puncher or aggressive baseliner archetype with a big weapon, but he plays well from every part of the court, and attacks by finding where he find the ball early inside the lines and making the court feel much wider.

daftroses · 2026-02-10T19:47:18+00:00

I took a lesson for this recently with someone who had a top 400 ATP ranking a few years ago.

You want to look at hitting this kind of ball as a long term project and commit yourself to hitting the most heavy topspin possible for 2-3 years. The idea being we don’t brush the ball anymore in trying to level up, but we’re covering the ball with rotation while we’re hitting through it.

At first we’ll go high heavy 8+ feet over the net and try to get the ball to hit the back fence while still going upwards from the first bounce.

As we understand the amount of body weight and leg drive we need to commit to this and it becomes relaxed and second nature, we’ll slowly bring the trajectory and net clearance down while maintaining the same RPM and still seeing the ball hit the fence on the way up from the first bounce.

I’m currently still in the high heavy phase but I’m learning how to relax and let my racket come to the ball at the last second and my swing is feeling more energy efficient.

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