There are days where we wake up and for some reason, our favorite forehand is no where to be found. Our fitness levels feel depleted. Our legs feel like cement. And our serve feels like we forgot how to hit it.
There’s no real explanation for it. That’s just the way it is. Just like Steph Curry’s 3 point shooting percentage is never exactly the same day after day, neither is our tennis game.
Because of all that, we as tennis players need to be continuously flexible. When yesterday we needed to hit forehands cross-court because we were playing a lefty, today, we need to try to hit more down the line because our opponent has an incredibly good righty forehand. Is it higher percentage to go cross-court? Yes, but our opponent’s forehand is so good, we’re almost guaranteed of losing the point if they’re able to find that shot. So today, the lower percentage shot to execute, the down the line shot, now becomes the highest win percentage play.
Tomorrow, you might play someone with a better backhand than forehand, so now you’ll go back to hitting that forehand cross-court.
And on and on it goes, and that’s the world tennis players need to live in. The world where everything is about percentages, not rules, and those percentages can seesaw back and forth depending on the flavor of the day.
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