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As the Pro Tour moves from the American hard courts onto
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because of the different surface.

For some, these changes will be fairly
natural, for others the change will be fairly un
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changes will have to be made.

The same applies to you!!

Here are a
few simple changes you may need to think about and follow when you make the
transition to clay courts.

FROM THE BASELINE

This first change
concerns your ground strokes and is this hit them higher over the net with a bit
more topspin.

It sounds like a no brainer but you would be surprised how
many people dont do it and for many people adding more topspin at will is
something they need to work on.

If you can do this however, you will find
that this will not only help with your consistency, but will also help to push
the balls deeper into your opponents court as well as getting the balls up at
heights that they may find difficult to handle.

The second change is to
hit behind your opponent more often.

Hitting behind your opponent means
hitting the ball back to the same part of the court that your opponent has just
hit from.

It means not always going into the open court (unless you can
obviously hit a winner of course) and has 3 big advantages.

1. With your
opponent probably recovering towards the centre of the court the behind ball
means they have to quickly change direction to go back again.

Doing this
on clay is very difficult because of the slippery nature of the surface and so
will end up with them struggling to maintain balance and footing and therefore
struggling to control the ball.

2. You will also find that you make less
errors as this often means a cross court shot (more space to aim into and lower
part of the net) and you are not over hitting in an attempt to put the ball away
into the open space.

3. You will pick up a lot of free points if you can
do this well as your opponent is sometimes forced into trying to end the point
quicker than they would normally want to or they will be forced into a very
defensive shot just to stay in the point while they slide around.

WHEN
SERVING

Just like
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serves into play.

Because the clay surface negates the power of even the
fastest of serves, your second serve may well be vulnerable to
attack.

So, getting more first serves into play will mean your opponent
gets less looks at your second serves and therefore less chances to attack
it.

If you don t do so
already nike
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can be aggressive on as your first serve.

A slice is good but a good kick
serve will be better as it will bounce up higher and be harder for opponents to
attack.

AT THE NET

Remember I said earlier about the use of the
hitting behind your opponent when playing from the baseline??

Well, I
also said when you get the chance you should attack and that can mean getting to
the net to finish off the point.

Just be aware that volleying on clay is
different to volleying on a hard court or grass court.

Because the ball
doesn t go through like it does on other surfaces, you need to make a couple of
small adjustments.

1. Use more angles and shortdrop volleys

The
lack of depth on your volleys will work in your favor as getting up speed and
possibly changing direction will be hard for your opponent as they attempt to
get to your shots.

2. Bodyweight into ball

If you do decide to
play a penetrating
volley nike
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moving it forwards into the ball will help it gain momentum off the court
surface and away from your opponent.

MOVEMENT

I have found that
the number one thing about playing well on a clay court has nothing directly to
do with shots.

It is in fact about your movement, more specifically
SLIDING.

Sliding into the ball on a clay court is vital and is the one
thing that the players who dont grow up on the surface find the hardest to add
into their game.

In fact most people think that you have to learn to hit
the ball and then slide.

No!!

You have to learn how to slide into
your shots and then begin your recovery for the next ball and that requires
timing.

So how do you learn to do this?

Well, one of the best ways
I have seen is to just get out there and slide around.

Getting a partner
to throw a tennis ball onto the court in different directions while you run to
and slide around to get the balls before getting the ball back to them is one of
the best ways to work out how to move and recover on a clay court.

Just
progresstransfer this game to when you have a racket and are hitting balls and
you are well on the way to feeling comfortable and moving better on the
dust.

SUMMARY

So there you have
it nike
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more effective on clay.

Try to implement them slowly and you will be more
successful over the season.

Heres to the best clay court tennis youve
ever played!!!
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