Tour Strokes: Alexander Zverev Serve

[John Yandell]

Thanks! Been studying him for awhile...

[stotty]

It's a good article. What makes it frustrating is that John's recommendations seem quite simple and doable...easy to grasp and understand...for player and coach.

You can understand why some coaches would be reluctant to take on some technical changes despite good information being laid out in front of them. Milos's backhand would be a more complicated thing (in my view) to take on. Even if his coach understood the problem if would still have the dilemma of 'how' to go about changing it. It's one thing being supplied with the knowledge; quite another knowing how to set about achieving technical changes.

In the case of Zverev, the fix would be surprising simple for a player with so much ability.

[John Yandell]

Yes it would! But the article is mainly just an exercise in analysis and understanding--certainly applies to many many other than Z. I may try to get at his dad, but again, either way it's worthwhile.

[doctorhl]

For whatever reason, the Federer, Henin, etc. stance and torso rotation seem to be able to adjust to slight variances in toss location and timing better than Zverev’s.

[John Yandell]

Doc,
Agreed.