After watching the action in today’s Madrid Masters, I have drawn up 5 quick tips about how to play good clay court tennis. 1. You need confidence. How do you get confidence? You win matches. The lack of won matches was obvious in Flag-Pole Jerzy Janowicz lacked patience today againt Gulbis so despite that he played a good set and had Gulbis on the melt-down, he couldn’t keep his level up in the decider. 2. You need patience. Longer rallies. Far longer rallies. You can’t keep going for broke because the opponent will retrieve and retrieve and retrieve. And you can …
