ATP 250 Estoril Vlog Season 1 l Episode 5
Clay Court Season is in full swing now, find out how the week in Estoril went, where we returned to the ATP Tour for a 250 Event. I was able to play in singles and in doubles while enjoying some great hospitality and organization in Estoril. Even with some rain the practice conditions were great with a big gym, many practice courts and an indoor facility. The Tournament site is one of the best on the Tour, we have some BTS of all the areas as well, so enjoy the Vlog and let me know in the comments what you think about the Episode.
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Nice insights, can’t wait to see more behind the scenes 🔥
Thank you!! More vlogs coming and we will do more BTS
The vlogs are getting better and better 🔥
Appreciate it!! Will continue to make them better and better
@@hendrik_jebens This is the first video I have seen. Great video! Hendrik, it is sort of ridiculous to tell you how to serve, but you need much more tilt to your shoulders before you go up to hit the ball. Your shoulders are almost level with the court. Try left shoulder high, right shoulder low. You will generate more power and spin. Use slow motion on this video and compare your tilt to every one of the top 50 players. Maybe you have been told this already...maybe not. Your other strokes look great! Good luck on the tour!
What a great event! Can’t wait for more 🙌
Yes one of the best events on Tour 🎾💪 Munich next!
Great stuff! I saw you on Instagram and you popped up on my feed. Quick question, what camera and lens is your cameraman using? Thanks! Wishing you the best this season!
Hey appreciate it 💪 he’s using a red camera for the lens I gotta check
This is the first video I have seen. Great video! Hendrik, it is sort of ridiculous to tell you how to serve, but you need much more tilt to your shoulders before you go up to hit the ball. Your shoulders are almost level with the court. Try left shoulder high, right shoulder low. You will generate more power and spin. Use slow motion on this video and compare your tilt to every one of the top 50 players. Maybe you have been told this already...maybe not. Your other strokes look great!
Hi Gabriel, thanks for your long message. I served with “correct” technique in the past but it somehow wasn’t as efficient as my current technique. I can serve both style but like this works better for me even if it looks unorthodox
@@hendrik_jebens I subscribed. I really appreciate your answer. Your serve is a bomb and i have no business telling you what to do. I can only ask, what mental image of your racket movement from loading, racket drop to contact do you have? Is it like throwing the racket handle upwards and smacking the ball downwards? Do you try to achieve a back scratch position? I'm serving in the low 100s MPH and would like to get better. Maybe you can do video lessons of how YOU hit your strokes and what you visualize when hitting them? It would only take a few minutes. Don't give a standard lesson. Give your mental pictures of your strokes. There are thousands of tennis lessons. Tell us what YOU think and try to achieve in the various strokes. I'd love to hear what you try to do when you hit a forehand. Do you "brush", "hit thru", "cheese grate" the ball or something else? Do you visualize a vertical or slightly closed face at contact? What is your mental image. I would love to learn what is in your mind, what it feels like you think you are doing. I can watch slow motion video all day and not get the right mental picture i need.
That’s a great point I will go into detail about the serve mentality. A tip for now, I imagine that I’m hitting through a glass. Most players only accelerate into contact point but powering through contact is key!
@@hendrik_jebens Did you mean, powering thru a glass "window"? Is the widow is 90 degrees perpendicular to the court? (as a mental image). I gotta admit I'm one of the people who tries to accelerate to contact and hit a bit downwards on the first serve. (Robin Sodinger, while teaching a lesson, said to hit the top of the ball on the first serve. That's impossible, but that is the way he visualizes it) That's the sort of thing I'm (and others) interested in. I'm nor rich, but if I won the lottery, I have this fantasy of taking tennis lessons from past great tour players and I'd focus on what those player's metal image was or how it feels to hit their great shots or their metal imagery for the start of each point or their mental imagery when they are not playing well or what they think makes their stroke better than everyone else. I don't want a "use a semi western grip and take the racket back early" type lesson. I want a how "I" use my wrist on my serve or "on an average ball, I try to come upwards about 20 degree with my racket on my forehand with a perfectly vertical racket face" type lesson. I once asked Federer what he thought just before he served. He said, "I think about what has been working and what is likely to work and where I expect him to return and how I want to develop the point after that." Another key metal image from Federer I heard him say when was giving advise to a teammate when playing a team event is, "don't think any negative thoughts. If he hits a winner, that's just good for him." I have seen lessons from former pros and although it is next to impossible to hit the ball the way they describe, it is the mental image that works and in so trying to do it that way, it works for them. Venus literally said she tries to hit a slight underside of the ball to get topspin. Mark Phillopusis said on the kick serve to hit the bottom of the ball and curve the racket around the ball to the top. That's impossible, but it works for him. Sampras says to hit the serve like you are throwing a football. I think there in more to it and I'd ask him about it. I'd want to know what made a great players great stroke great from their metal imagery. Agassi once said, when I'm playing well, the ball looks like a beach ball (an exaggeration of course). You can even interview other pros for their mental images, but please don't do "get the racket back early" type lessons unless, this is an actual mental image they use. Lastly, once a point starts, what goes thru your mind? Do you think "keep it to his backhand till he gives me and inside out and crush it"? or "keep the ball high and push him back till an opening" or do you visualize every stroke before you hit it or do you just go on automatic and nothing goes thru your mind? For my case, I go on automatic with maybe a "keep it to his backhand". When playing bad, I visualize each stroke before it hit it. This is probably wrong as I'm not letting my subconscious hit the ball the way I have trained. Sampras was asked how he hit his forehand and he said, I don't know, I just hit it. Sorry this is so long. If I don't win the lottery, maybe you can do the next best thing. It needs only to be a few minutes. It could be as simple as, "When I hit my first serve, I imagine I'm powering thru and breaking a vertical thick glass window high above me." or something like that...then demonstrate a few first serves. Again, you can interview other pros for their visualizations. You won't run out of content. No matter how crazy the visualization, please share it with us, but please don't give beginner lessons. There are thousands of those. Your slice serve misconception video was perfect! I wish you well. As a side note. Have you ever played Tim van Rijthoven? He seems like an amazing player that burned bright for a little while, then disappeared. I do appreciate the "powering thru the ball" for the first serve. I'll try it in an hour or so. Good luck on the tour! Gabriel (58) USTA 5.0. Living in Ann Arbor Michigan, USA.
Nice video man, But I have a question! Why are you playing with an „older“ Blade?
Thank you 💪 I feel comfortable with this racquet and have many of them so don’t wanna change. Lot of pros play old racquets but have a paint job to make it look like it’s the latest model
Y r u still using the blade from 3 generations ago do u like it more or something just curious
Before I almost quit tennis I changed back to this racquet and started to excel again. I believe in staying with something if it works
Great content, a bit more tennis would be nice
I agree just had 2 matches unfortunately. Going for more 💪