10 Minutes of Tennis: Today’s Game is All About TIME

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I have a lot. Good morning, everyone.

Good morning.

We're on Puerto Rican Tennis.

We're on a 10 minute journey.

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That's what it's all about.

If you're watching live, we are on island time.

It is 10 minutes of tennis at 10.0.2 today.

Yeah, and I quickly jumped in and it's just Shaun.

So there we go.

The world-renowned Ankle Biters.

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Oh, nice.

That's right.

Shaun, I am Justin you are.

And we were going to talk about the concept of time.

You actually called it the game of time.

You know, curious if you chose that phrase specifically,

or you're just referring to tennis.

So, Justin, what are we talking about?

We're talking about every element.

The whole game is built to Ranton.

Time between points.

Time between shots.

Time between match.

Time between change of ends.

I mean, everything's based to Ranton.

Even nowadays, if we're really conscious of watching the TV,

they're showing the time clock now between when the guy gets to serve

and when he gets in violation.

So everything is based on time right now.

And if we're going to start talking about time,

I want to probably help those that are amateur,

that would like to learn the sport more.

And those that are juniors that would like to be outstanding players.

This subject is a big one for me on the performance side of understanding

how you can get better in the game.

If you look at the players and where the game is gone,

I'm at a very big advantage because I grew up with the chip in charge,

gets the net,

short in the game, short in the point,

get in there as fast as you can, destroy your opponent on the net.

As an Izzy, it's all we know.

It's probably one of our best specialties.

And if we've watched the sport in the last five,

10 years, at least the last five years,

everybody's getting to net.

Raffia and the Dahl's numbers were off the charts in the last five years,

and everybody wasn't watching.

And they were all eventually saying,

"Oh my god, look at how many points it's one at the net."

And even in the French, he came to the net more than ever.

And the reason why is because it's short in his time on the court.

And if he short in his time on the court, he didn't get injured.

He didn't have to work so hard.

He didn't actually have to quit the sport.

He could keep playing.

And so as you get older,

so to say, guys, over 40, we've got a short in the point.

You've got to be able to get in.

You've got to be able to create something quicker,

which sort of backs into what we've been talking about over the weeks,

is understanding the three dimensions, understanding tactical awareness,

not just sitting down the baseline grind,

and like we had to just kind of do that anymore if you're over 40.

If you look at the IBM stats,

the IBM stats, the Craig Channancy has promoted over and over from IBM.

Zero to four.

Zero to four shots is what the game is about.

Zero to four.

Not 40, 50, 60 ball rallies.

It's zero to four shots is what the game is built around.

So what are we talking about?

Time.

You've got to press the time because you've got to try to make some shots and get

structured quickly.

You've got to get time to be able to get to the net quickly,

shut it off.

And then the big one I can give everybody on time that nobody seems to talk about.

And I still would love to up jump Mac and know to talk about it for me,

because nobody talks about the time between racket to racket.

Racket to racket is everything.

Grab your cell phone.

Grab your cell phone.

Unlock it.

Go to work.

Go to the stopwatch.

Go to the stopwatch.

You see mine, right?

Start, start the point.

Every time they hit,

every time they hit a shot, hit the lap button.

All right, as a kid, as an adult, whatever.

Start looking at it.

Fours.

At the end of the point, see how long it was, 11 seconds.

But every single time they hit a ball, you'll see 0.8, 0.9, 1.2.

You'll start to see patterns as well.

If Raffer's playing, it's usually 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 seconds,

because he put so much loop on the ball before the guy hits it.

It was Raffer up there.

I mean Roger up the other end.

He gave him 0.9 seconds on the next shot.

Right?

And if you start to identify the players,

you'll start to identify how much time they're trying to shut down

against the opponent.

And Jargavitch,

Loot, Soft, Soft, then he steps in,

neutral stance,

flatens the ball out, gives him 0.8 seconds.

Then he gives you 0.8 seconds again.

Now it's hard for him to get to each ball,

and the ball's now becoming 20% less.

Boom, and he comes and pounds it.

So time for me, as you can hear, I could talk about the next 50 minutes about time.

But I've got 10 minutes, 10 minutes, and Tuesday at 10 o'clock.

So all I've got to be able to talk about time.

Sean, you want to add anything in?

Well, I'm curious as the typical players, we can have the examples.

You say, coming to the net is good.

I love the thought that 0 to 4 is important.

It makes me think of that Peter Teal book, The 0 to 1,

which is creating a company, creating something from nothing.

And in this case, being able to create a winning pattern,

we go back to a recent conversation we had about patterns,

create a winning pattern, but 0 to 4 is where we start.

And with the young players, we talk about a pattern of saying,

"Okay, I want you to serve and return."

Call that your first pattern.

Serve return, then next ball.

Get it in.

So if we talk about trying to take time away or using time to our advantage,

with the amateur player, especially, I mean, we talk about

sinner who's never been to the net in his life,

and probably why he's not going to make a final.

We can talk about the professional guys all day long and give examples.

The question is, as an amateur player, if I'm a 3-5 player,

playing league, whether it's singles doubles, whatever it is,

doubles we usually know to come forward,

because taking time away and cutting off the middle,

and those kinds of things we typically understand.

But from a junior perspective as well, which is what I spend a lot of my time on,

being able to get the kids just to understand,

the ball's coming back, you've got to get ready.

However long, in a junior match, whether that's two and a half,

three seconds you might have after you're served at the ball's coming back,

you just got to get ready, and you've got to be thinking about that immediately

after you hit the ball.

Yep.

So you've got a couple of things that you can bring up real quick.

Footspeed.

Physicality.

If you're not that athletic, don't feel that fast.

Sometimes it might be perception of not reading the other players' record.

I spend a lot of lessons at the lower level and the highest level.

I've seen players in top 100, top 200 struggle,

because they're like, "Oh, my time is a little off."

From a man, look at the player's record.

You know, they think instinctively they're already doing it.

And sometimes you just, and you're just watching the ball.

But by watching the ball, you're missing out on those milliseconds.

You get to the feet that make the decide early,

that make you see something quicker.

And there's all that processing time, again, the word time.

Processing time.

If your waiting for the ball to come over there too late,

I mean, by the time the ball gets you,

you've got to make decision, get your feet in position,

hit the target, and recover.

And you can't do all that if the ball's just like the,

then the decision is coming.

It's like, "Boy, I can see all my shots, but oh my god,

balls are already hit."

So time is everything in this game.

And as you can see, it's a big, detailed conversation

that takes a lot to cover in 10 minutes.

But probably the other one I wanted to let everyone really understand too is,

we've heard a lot of conversation about when you're rallying,

you should hit plenty of clearance over the net and lower the net.

And clearance over the net, obviously,

would give you a opponent more time.

But what you can do is use clearance over the net to take away time and use the court

to then take away time on the next one.

So just understand there are ways taking away time without losing your ratio over the net.

And the other one I wanted to let everybody know too is that

there's a really good one.

Oh, Vic braided.

The legend of all legends, and if this coach is listening right now,

if they don't know that guy, they need a clock on the chin.

Because that guy is a legend.

And what he proved back in,

that the time from baseline to service line,

we couldn't keep up with the pace of the ball that's being hit between the strings and the power of the racket.

So the reason why we lost the coming to the net game is because we couldn't get there faster now.

And so between rackets or racket to get from baseline to service line,

I mean, you know, the Sam Presley is the pack cash days, we're hitting a low volley.

The amount of spin, the amount of time, the amount, it just was too tough.

So what we're seeing as a transition in the last five years is people getting faster.

They're learning to rally with height of the net and then take away height of the net and then find

their their pounds. They're waiting two or three shots to go in. They're setting it up to go in

in two or three versus hit and go, hit and go. And jog of it, absolute legend about it.

So it wasn't a doubt, but I think jog of it just really figured out I caught the opportunity.

Well, it's just inside the baseline and he will work it, work it, work it, move a little closer,

flatten out the next one and then he moves back a little, which gives the opponent note like

the impression that he's not coming in and then he bounces in on his off he goes. So it's,

yeah, anyway, I don't know, hopefully that helps, but big brain improved that we didn't have the time

to get in quick enough. Oh, the last one real quick, if you don't have much time,

you don't have much foot speed and you're trying to figure out how to take away time,

then look for the opportunities when your opponent's not hurting and just find your way in.

Hit a volley halfway in the middle of the court. They say it's no men's land. It's not no men's land

if you can do something with it, you know, and if you watch the days where we grew up in the 90s,

80s and 90s, we were hitting low volleys inside the service line, which I'll hit curious land.

It curiously, if you can call it whatever you want. I mean, these days too, these days too,

people can hit a swing in forehand or swing it back in. We didn't do that back in those days. We

hit a volley. So like, I don't know, I think if you feel like you're restricted because of his

pali, you're not restricted. All you've got to do is literally see your opportunities, come in,

take away time and then go a little further. So just be like, you brought up a good point.

Be split step, be ready. Don't feel like you've got to run all the way to the net. Just run,

split step when the person's ready, take away time. Come in a little further, you know,

so anyway, there's my thing on time and you can tell I get told about it forever.

I love it. We'll do it again. We'll do a follow up Justin Yo, Australian and Puerto Rico. Thanks

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