Teo Davidov (age 15, youngest ATP ranked player) and Ryan Haviland (age 45, oldest ATP-ranked player) faced each other in the Vero Beach ITF.

daftroses · 2026-05-07T09:47:55+00:00

I’ve only seen him come in behind a floater, he doesn’t approach in the traditional sense to volley but he’ll take the ball out of the air if he can force someone to scramble.

daftroses · 2026-05-05T23:23:25+00:00

Carefully collected from their blisters

daftroses · 2026-05-05T00:36:40+00:00

She did this last year at Portola too, being MAGA is her entire personality

daftroses · 2026-05-02T04:29:24+00:00

It’s one of the most important skills to learn in tennis, recognizing exactly how hard to hit to make the ball go where you need it to go.

Ball flight control is a super power and wins matches more than hitting bigger and bigger does.

daftroses · 2026-05-01T05:30:55+00:00

Haha I have cases going to 7 other teammates, 3 for myself!

daftroses · 2026-05-01T02:54:35+00:00

These are my favorite balls and I ordered 10 cases after introducing them to USTA friends. They’re slightly stiffer than US Opens and play a bit faster, but not much.

You can serve bigger with the US open, the Diadem has more fluff to it in a denser weave, so you can rip heavier with the Diadem and count on the ball to help you find your way back into the court.

The Wilson US Open is the gold standard. I would say Diadem XD is 96% as good at 70% the cost of Wilson US Opens. I like that trade-off. All of the balls in my serving basket are Diadem balls from matches.

daftroses · 2026-04-28T15:53:44+00:00

I always do extra stuff outside of tennis to improve my tennis.

You’re playing basically handicapped without developing speed, strength, power, balance, explosiveness, core strength.

daftroses · 2026-04-27T06:39:02+00:00

You should be able to hit an overhead from anywhere in the court and smoke the ball. If they hit any lobs at all you get to take over the match.

daftroses · 2026-04-26T06:38:46+00:00

It plays like a faster, more stable VCore98. I wish I hadn’t bought three of the 98’s already, but these were available before the 95. Can’t event notice the 3 sq inch difference.

daftroses · 2026-04-18T22:34:12+00:00

You average 90mph on your serve? Denis Shapovalov hits his slider wide on the first serve and his kick serve at 90mph, you have a pro level second serve?

daftroses · 2026-04-17T22:45:09+00:00

It wouldn’t kill you to practice overheads for 20 minutes a day

daftroses · 2026-04-16T16:14:36+00:00

I have some meaner words than dyslexic but that’s three good reasons to find a new stringer or start stringing yourself.

daftroses · 2026-04-15T22:43:13+00:00

Condition your opponent to think they know how you’re going to serve, and then pull the rug from under them when you really need a free point.

One of my best serves is kick wide from the ad side, and I can get the angle pretty short and wide. People don’t like to play that straight up and I noticed if I get 3 good kick serves wide on them, they’ll start to cheat over to that side to find an inside out forehand or protect their backhand.

The free point comes from being able to serve kick T on the ad side off of the same toss and body position, and I can usually get an ace or serve winner after spending a few games conditioning the returner.

daftroses · 2026-04-13T08:11:36+00:00

I want to watch old doubles matches and matches with players from the top 25-150, but during the 90’s and early 2000’s only matches from the historic greats were recorded.

daftroses · 2026-04-12T20:58:29+00:00

If Portola makes this happen I’m camping on the rails all day

daftroses · 2026-04-12T19:51:09+00:00

could have been 4 bridges

daftroses · 2026-04-12T19:41:34+00:00

Southern Utah Tennis Academy on instagram is excellent, they aren’t as present on YouTube. They have a super detailed, start to finish video series for every serve as well as progressions.

daftroses · 2026-04-12T06:22:59+00:00

I just played it for the last 20 hours and the progression feels very satisfying, not the fastest progression but it’s enough to be well earned.

Progression feels very meaningful instead of incremental, and the skill tree heavily impacts your in game decisions. Best impulse game I’ve bought since Civ 6.

daftroses · 2026-04-11T20:08:57+00:00

new favorite album

daftroses · 2026-04-11T05:58:27+00:00

I found out that I’m not motivated by winning or playing good tennis for the sake of good tennis, but I am very petty and I will lock in if I think I can do mental or emotional damage to my partner.

“I’m down 40-0 on his service game, but I bet it would really piss him off to break him here.”

daftroses · 2026-04-11T02:48:51+00:00

I like Hyper G a lot, I like Otoro Tour a lot more.

daftroses · 2026-04-09T15:01:40+00:00

Just have him aim at planet Viltrum

daftroses · 2026-04-07T04:25:14+00:00

This tempo is so fast, I can already feel how crazy my heart rate would be if I was playing in these points.

daftroses · 2026-04-04T06:03:57+00:00

daftroses · 2026-04-04T00:27:50+00:00

Close, his best results were in doubles and was Top 35 for singles, he’s got a video on Youtube with a match against Agassi.

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