Our guest tennis analyst, Evan Gadreau is a prolific writer. Here are some of his findings from the recent Djokovic matches. We call it Novak’s stretch combo. Let the chips fall where they may… This piece will be small. I have bigger fish to fry at the moment. Four kids on vacation week rampaging around the house. Strangers kids running through my house too. Â Enough! I get it. Novak played …
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Our prolific guest contributor, coach and tennis analyst, Evan Gaudreau is back with “Felix and Andrey” – a tennis short story about a recent meeting between two pro players. The story features the two viewpoints of Felix Auger-Aliassime and Andrey Rublev and their recent matches. The format is slightly different to make reading it more entertaining. You have to give it to Evan for being creative around his analysis! If …
Evan is back with his new take on the second serve. He calls it “Change is on the horizon.” Let me know what you think about in the comments below. Look in the distance. Can you see it? Something’s coming. Can you feel it? Probably not. It’s going to pass you by if you’re not paying attention. Change is on the horizon. What is it? It’s a big wave. A wave full of knowledge but if you …
Evan Gaudreau is back with his analysis of the Australian Open Junior Final. This time we get to the meat! Read his first part take here. The Meat. If I wrote this after watching the quarterfinals between Bruno Kuzuhara and Edas Butvilas, I would be solely talking about body language and anxiety. But after watching the semis and the finals, I changed a little. It was a little frustrating to …
Evan Gaudreu is back with another match analysis. This time it’s junior tennis vs pro tennis. The Junior Boys Australian Open part 1 featuring Bruno Kuzuhara. If you want to read similar posts to Junior Tennis vs Pro Tennis, check out The Myth About Consistency, Consistent Game Planning, Australian Open 2022 Men’s Final Analysis and Australian Open 2022 Women’s Final Analysis. Junior Boys Australian Open Part 1 – The Bun. Listen. …
Our guest contributor Evan Gaudreau is back with another match analysis. This time he deals with Medvedev vs Aliassime from the Australian Open Quarter-finals. We call it Brains vs Power. Daniil Medvedev d. Felix-Auger Aliassime 6-7, 3-6, 7-6, 7-5, 6-4. Was it a cause of Brains vs Power? Let’s take a deep look…If you like this type of analysis, check out the Australian Open 2022 Final analysis here. Evan has a …
Today we have a guest post from Colan Surratt about the pains of racquet-holism. I think many of us can relate to Colan’s journey. Hi all, my name is Colan. I’m a tennis player and coach from the US, and I have racquet-holism. I love trying different racquets and am chronically switching frames. I’ve used players’ sticks, tweeters, and everything in between. I grew up playing with Head Liquidmetal Radicals …
Our guest contributor Evan Gaudreau is back. This time with a marathon Australian Open 2022 Men’s Final Analysis. Enjoy! Australian Open 2022 Men’s Final Analysis: Nadal d. Medvedev 2-6, 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 Was this match won or lost by metrics? Stats? Winners to unforced errors ratio? Serve plus 1? Or maybe the length of the points 0-4, 5-9 or 10+? Or maybe it was none of the above. Maybe …
We have another guest post from tennis coach Evan Gaudreu on Consistent Game Planning. I hope you find it interesting. The author of Consistent Game Planning, Evan Gaudreau, is a tennis coach on junior and college level (D1). He is rated above 5.0, trained at Van Der Meer Tennis Academy and played D1 college tennis himself. You can read his post about the Myth of Consistency in tennis here. The …
Our guest writer Evan Gaudreau is back with an interesting post covering the Australian Open 2022 Women’s Final analysis. I hope you like it! Australian Open 2022 Women’s Final analysis: Barty d. Collins 6-3, 7-6 (7-2) I received a text from a buddy. He loves the women’s game more than the men’s because he likes the rawness of the points, and to be honest, it can be more exciting to …