Tennis Evolution

In today’s Podcast I’d like to share with you my take on why Rafael Nadal is better than Novak Djokovic now.    

Show Notes In today’s Podcast I’d like to share with you my take on why Novak fired his team. *Why letting go Marian Vajda could be trouble for Novak *Will he never win another grand Slam and/or become #1 again *The interesting transition Novak is going through *The positive reason for making this coaching change    

Show Notes Hey, it’s Jeff Salzenstein here, founder of Tennis Evolution, USTA High Performance coach, and former top 100 ATP player, and in today’s Tennis Evolution tips and strategies podcast, we’re going to talk about a very powerful way that you can improve your tennis. Now, before we get to that, I just want to thank everyone for tuning in to our podcast, for listening to our tips and strategies. Make sure you go leave a review over there, and please subscribe, so that you can be updated. You, know I’m all about delivering very powerful content, so that you can make very quick improvements, and today, what I’m going to share with you is very, very powerful. You’re going to love it. Now, what I want to tell you is how you can improve as quickly as possible without a coach, and this is what I did when I was in my 20s, moving into my 30s. This is how I learned the game even quicker, and here’s what I would do: I would study the videos, study videos of the top pros, but I would take it a step further; I would actually get videos of myself: hitting forehands, hitting backhands, hitting serves, and nowadays, it’s much easier to take videos of yourself on a phone, and then to upload it to your computer, and do a side by side of Federer, or Djokovic, or anybody that you want to emulate, and I used to do that back in the day. I used to get videos—I actually worked with John Yandell. He took a lot of videos of me, of all my different strokes, and then, we would go side by side with all the great players of that generation: Pete Sampras, Gustavo Kuerten, Mark Philippoussis, Andre Agassi, and we really tried to break down the stroke, and I would spend hours in my hotel room, hours in my apartment, trying to figure out how I can improve my technique, and I made a lot of mistakes, because I, sometimes, copied the wrong things. But you know, you live and learn. In your case, you benefit, because you can tap into all the tips at our blog, and on the podcast, and in our premium programs, as well, so that you can fast track your learning; you don’t have to learn the hard way like I did. So, what I want you to do is I want you to take videos of yourself: of your forehand, of your backhand. Video analysis is very, very powerful, and even if you don’t know exactly what to look for, you can get these videos of yourself side by side with the pros, and you can look and see where things break down. A lot of times, it breaks down with the first move. So, you’ll see the first move to the ball break down, especially on the serve. but you’ll see that on the forehand, and t

Show Notes Hey, it’s Jeff Salzenstein here, founder of Tennis Evolution, former top 100 ATP player, and USTA High Performance coach, and today, we’re going to talk about transformation, and, I actually have a question for you: “What do you think is the quickest pathway to transforming your tennis and getting the results that you want?” Think about that for a few seconds. Do you think it’s improving your forehand? Maybe it’s getting your toss in the right place? Or how about implementing the correct strategy to beat that annoying pusher that keeps bugging you, keeps getting the best of you? Nope. It’s none of that. Sure, all those things can help and so much more, and as a coach, I love to get in there and fix the details to improve technique and footwork and strategy and tactics. But the reality is that it all starts with your mind. It all starts with mindset that you have every day that you step on the court, and you’ll be surprised. You actually might be more unconscious than you think. You might be more negative than you actually think that you are. It’s just conditioning. It’s the way we’ve been brought up. It’s the way we’ve been taught. It’s the way we taught ourselves, and I’m going to challenge you, that if you truly want to transform, you’ve got to change the way you think. Case in point. I was working with an athlete in the last week. She’s had a really rough go. She hasn’t been playing very well for this 2017 year, and she was at her wit’s end. Didn’t even want to step on the court anymore, not enjoying tennis, not having fun. And, you might think “Well, gosh. She should just have fun. Enjoy her game,” but I told her “Listen. It’s kind of hard to have fun when you keep losing all the time, when you’re losing matches, and not only losing, but you’re not playing great tennis. You’re not playing well at all, you’re struggling, you’re missing shots you used to make, you’re double-faulting more than you used to, you’re losing the big points. It can weigh on you after a while, and that’s not fun.” So, just to tell someone “Hey, have fun,” that’s not the answer. So, we talked about how we could make this shift happen. We talked about a lot of things, and the first thing that we wanted to focus on, for her, was to make sure that she stops being s

Show Notes Hi, it’s Jeff Salzenstein, founder of Tennis Evolution, former top 100 ATP player, and USTA High Performance coach. And, welcome to our Tennis Evolution “Tip for The Day.” Now, we’re going to talk about an aspect of the stroke that actually gets very little attention, in my opinion. I actually believe it’s the most important part of the stroke, especially when we’re talking about forehands and backhands, even returns in volleys. Maybe not so much the serve, but this aspect of the stroke is overlooked, not focused on enough, and it’s actually the one thing that many players struggle with. Many players at the recreational level really struggle with this aspect of the stroke. Pros do it well, college players do it well for the most part, but it’s the intermediate level player, sometimes junior players, but definitely adult recreational players, that forget to do this really well. And, one of the problems is that it’s not emphasized by coaches. A lot of coaches are focusing on the backswing and the contact point, and I don’t really focus on those things. I actually focus more on the finish. If you’ve been following me for any length of time, you know that I’m absolutely obsessed with the finish. It is, to me, it is the most important part of the stroke. It is where the rubber meets the road. If I see a good finish with good balance on the forehand or the backhand, I’m pretty sure that that’s going to be a high-quality shot. It may not go in every time, but the quality of the stroke is going to improve, the quality of the shot is going to improve, if there is a tangible, directed focus on the finish. Now, sure, you have to have the correct grip. It sure helps to have a good first move and a solid backswing, but I find that if you hold the racket correctly, and you do make a decent first move to the ball, if you can just focus on finishing correctly a full finish every time, not just poking at the ball and stopping the finish, it can really help you improve a lot. Why is that? Well, I find that a lot of players, when they play points, they run around, they’re chasing the ball, they’re trying to win the point, and they’re so fixated on making contact that the stroke slows down or stops too soon, and I really like a full finish as a fundamental. So, on the forehand, you go over the shoulder, nice high finish over the shoulder, on the backhand—two-handed backhand, same thing, one-handed backhand, you have a nice, extended finish with an almost straight arm. And, again, the problem that I see is a lot of players short-change themselves with the finish, and what’s really cool i

Show Notes Hey, it’s Jeff Salzenstein, founder of Tennis Evolution, USTA High Performance coach, and former top 100 ATP player, and in today’s podcast, we’re going to talk about Roger Federer. Of course, you want to hear about Roger Federer, right? He’s the most popular player in tennis, he’s an absolute icon, a champion for our sport, an amazing ambassador who is contributing to the game in so many ways, and here he is at 35 years old—almost 36 years old, and he’s playing the best tennis in the world. Yes, he is arguably… well, we don’t even have to argue about it. He is number 1 in the world from the beginning of the year, he won the Australian open he won the BNP Paribas Open, and I don’t see the Fed Express slowing down anytime soon. Why? Well, there’s a couple of reasons. Number one: his switch to a bigger racket really enables him to get a cleaner cut at the ball. In other words, he has less mishits, he hits the ball cleaner, which raises his confidence. And Federer is a confidence player just like anyone else out there. And the fact that his ball strike has improved because of the racket, that really helps him a lot, especially on the forehand and the backhand side. So, the racket has helped his game. The time off: being off for 6 months after the knee injury. Now, I’ll be honest. I wasn’t sure he could come back after a knee injury like that. I didn’t know that he could come back a hundred percent healthy. Anytime you cut on the knee, there’s a lot of apprehension, a lot of uncertainty. But the fact that he’s been able to come back and feel like he can move as well as ever—if not, better, at 35, is a testament to him, and his training, and his team. So, good for him for taking those 6 months off, getting rested mentally and physically and regrouping. So, he got the break, he got the bigger racket, now what? He comes out and he commits to his one-handed backhand. He is coming over that one-handed backhand, he’s driving it, he’s hitting angles, he’s hitting down the line groundstroke winners, he’s hitting drive backhand returns. This is a guy who used to be content with slicing a lot of returns, being more passive. Not anymore.

Show Notes Hey, it’s Jeff Salzenstein, founder of Tennis Evolution, and former top 100 ATP pro, also USTA High Performance coach. And today, I’ve got a powerful tip that I want to share with you. We’re going to talk about the serve. Now, what do you think is one of the most impactful serves that you can hit as a tennis player? Got any clues? Well, I really like the slice serve out wide in the deuce court if you’re a righty. So, here are some reasons why I like this serve. Number one: you can start every game serving out wide and pulling your opponent off the court. So, you’re opening up the court, and then you can play that first ball to the open court. There’s nothing like being able to get your opponent off the court and to be able to run them on the next ball. So, you’re doing it on the first point of the game, you can do it at 30 all, and you can do it in a deuce, and it just opens up the court so that you can see the opening to hit to. Now, there’s another benefit there. Again, assuming you’re playing a right-handed player when you play to the open court, you’re making your opponent hit a running backhand. And I don’t know about you, but most players do not like to hit backhands on the run, me included. So, you definitely want to practice the wide slice in the deuce court if you’re a righty, and of course, if you’re a lefty. you’ve got to own that wide slice in the ad court. I’m a lefty. I loved hitting that can opener out wide in the ad court on big points, but those righties out there, you’ve got to practice the wide serve in the deuce court and own that serve. Practice it more than any other serve. Roger Federer uses this serve unbelievably well, and he uses it often, even when his opponents know that the serve is going there, there’s still not much they can do about it, because if they don’t hit a clean winner, which is very difficult, they’re going to be on the run on the next shot. So, I definitely want you to practice that wide serve as much as possible. Now, before we go today, I want to give you a couple little technical tips that can help you. First of all, when you’re on the deuce court serving, if you want to get more wide slice, there’s a couple of things that you can do. First, as I said, you can stand out wider. So, in singles, you can stand

Show Notes Hey, it’s Jeff Salzenstein, founder of Tennis Evolution, USTA High Performance coach, and former top 100 ATP player. And today, I’ve got a great Tennis Evolution tip for you. I know you’re going to love it, and before I get started, I just want to let you know I am super passionate about helping players and coaches and fans, tennis enthusiasts all over the world, learn tennis in an easier and faster way. Now, for today’s tip, I want to talk about a shot that is often shunned by the more conventional tennis coaching community. And you know, I’ve taken a little heat form some coaches in the past for teaching this shot. Many players, many top coaches, and many coaches out there in the world think that the buggy whip forehand, or the reverse forehand, is a shot that should not be taught, and it should be not used, and well, I say bahumba to that. I used to use the buggy whip forehand as a 12-year old. I didn’t know I was using it, but I would use it on specific shots. I used it as a college player and as a pro early in my pro career. Didn’t know I was using it, but I was using that reverse forehand finish, where the racket comes up above the head and finishes on the same side of the body. Now, this is the finish, the follow-through on the forehand side that Rafa Nadal has made famous. So, in the last 10 years, the buggy whip forehand has become all the rage, but many people don’t know that the buggy whip forehand has been around since as long as tennis has been played. It’s a natural way to swing the racket when you’re under stress, when you’re on the run, when you’re dealing with low balls, even high balls, and it’s a type of finish on the forehand that Rod Laver used, Bjorn Borg used, and even Peter Sampras. In fact, I think there’s a story behind that, I don’t know the exact details, but Robert Lansdorp was Pete Sampras’s coach, and they were working on their forehand—he was working on his forehand. One day, and I believe they were working on the wide forehand, and all of a sudden, Pete Sampras runs

Show Notes Hey it’s Jeff Salzenstein, founder of Tennis Evolution, USTA High Performance Coach, former top 100 ATP player, and in today’s podcast, we’re going to talk about a tip that I’m going to give you in your forehand. It’s going to make a tremendous difference, and I can relate to what I’m about to share with you, because I struggled with this problem that I had on my forehand even when I was playing on the tour, even when I was playing in the Grand Slams, the biggest tournaments in the world. I had to focus on not making this mistake and actually focus on the specific fundamental to make sure I got my forehand locked in, and it all stand from the nerves that I felt when I play, and I still see this a lot with the players that I work with. In fact, when I’m watching players struggle with their forehand, I see a common theme. So, what is it? Well, a couple weeks ago, I was watching a college player play, and I noticed that he was finishing across his body and actually finishing below his shoulder. Now, that’s fine, if you get a lot of extension on your forehand. You swing out and around, but the problem is that when players, like yourself, you might get nervous, and you start pulling off the ball, and your arm feels heavy and tight, and you start following through below your shoulder really low without that extension. I call it kind of the “alligator arms,” because the arm stays bent, it goes pulled across. So, what happens? The ball lands short, the ball goes to the net, you don’t have any weight behind the ball. It’s not a heavy ball. It just sits there in the middle of the court, and I see great players struggle with this. So, what’s the solution? Well, of course, you can tell yourself to relax. You can tell yourself to hit the ball deeper. Sometimes, that’s not good enough. So, here’s what I want you to focus on. Finish higher. Yes, finish higher. Now, how do you do that? Well, one is you can focus on finishing higher and actually catch the racket with your nondominant hand. Now, a lot

Show Notes Hi, it’s Jeff Salzenstein, founder of Tennis Evolution, USTA High Performance coach, and former top 100 ATP player, and in today’s Tennis Evolution tips and strategies podcast, we are going to talk about the swinging volley. Yes, the swinging volley: the shot that recreational players are not supposed to use, right? The shot that is banned on all tennis courts all over the world by coaches teaching recreational players. Well, guess what? Today, I’m going to give you permission to use the swinging volley. About a month ago, I had a client that reached out to me, and she asked me if… what I felt about the swinging volley, because she had one coach that said on high balls, she should never hit a swinging volley. And she had another coach that said she should. So, she was confused, and so, she wanted me to break the tie, and I did. Empathically. I think everyone should learn how to hit the swinging volley. It is such an important critical shot in the game of tennis for so many different reasons. For one, if you practice it, you’re going to be able to be more aggressive at the net, and you’re going to send your opponents a message. We want to send a message to your opponents that you mean business at the net. It’s easier to put balls away, high balls away, if you practice the swinging volley. It also gets you to a more aggressive mindset, you feel better, when you swing at that ball and you execute it, it feels amazing. Now of course, you do need to spend time practicing it, because hitting a swinging volley out of the air is not the easiest thing to do, but I do recommend, especially on the forehand side, that you really master that swinging volley. Another story that I want to share with you real quick: at the time, a 14-year old student of mine, I’ve been teaching her swinging volleys for years since the time she was 10. She went down to the USTA and was working with a player development coach out there. And by the way, I love many of the coaches on the USTA staff, but this particular coach, who I actually don’t know very well, said that she should not hit swinging volleys anymore. So, she got confused as well. And so, there is kind of this misconception out there in the tennis world that only the pros sh

Listen To Jeff’s Analysis… Show Notes Hey, it’s Jeff Salzenstein, founder of Tennis Evolution, USTA High Performance coach, and former top 100 ATP singles and doubles player, and today, I want to talk about serve and volley, and today’s theme is this concept that serve and volley isn’t dead. And there’s been a lot of talk over the years in pro tennis that you just can’t serve and volley and be successful, that the game is too fast, the strings have changed, and guys are more physical, and their groundstrokes are better, and their defensive skills are too good, and you just can’t serve and volley. And when you look at the landscape of pro tennis, again, on the men’s side, and also on the women’s side, most players are staying behind the baseline, most players are not serving and volleying. But, I really want to question that, because when I was watching the Australian Open this year, I saw Roger Federer moving forward. Okay, he wasn’t serving and volleying that much, but he did throw in the occasional serve, and volley and he was successful. And I watched Mischa Zverev upset Andy Murray, case and point. I mean Mischa Zverev is not one of the greatest serve and volleyers of all time. Far from it. And he was able to take down the number 1 player in the world. Now, that is not going to happen in the—out of 10 matches, this is probably going to happen once, but it did happen, and it just shows that if you’re relentless with your pressure, if you serve and volley constantly, again, it’s to guys that don’t like that, or they’re not used to dealing with serve and volleyers. And if you execute, you can be successful. And I believe it can be done on the pro tour. The big reason why we don’t see it today is that players don’t grow up practicing their volleys like they do their groundstrokes. Players don’t grow up serving and volleying, because the top players today learned to win, as juniors, and as young pros, they learn to win from the baseline. They develop volleying skills, but they don’t really learn the art of this serve and volley. So, it’s really about skills and developing those skills. In fact, probably one of the better serve and volleyers today is Roger Federer, and I would classify him as an athletic volleyer. He’s not a guy that’s going to spend 30

Listen to Jeff’s analysis… Show Notes Hi, it’s Jeff here, and today, I want to talk about Andy Murray. Yes, I know Novak Djokovic won the French Open and Andy Murray finished in second, but last week, I was looking at Facebook, as I usually do everyday, just to kind of see what’s going on in the tennis world, and I saw a post, basically challenging Andy Murray, that he was not a mentally tough player, essentially, that he doesn’t come up big in the clutch. And I took notice of that, and was somewhat offended, actually. You know, being a former pro tennis player who clearly didn’t attain the heights of the ranking that I would have wanted to get to in my career, I mean I was a career journey man between a hundred and 200 in the world, but you know, I like to think I was pretty mentally tough. And here is Andy Murray, who has won multiple grand slam titles. He’s the Davis Cup champion, he essentially carries Great Britain on his shoulders last year, winning every singles match. I think he might have even won every doubles match. Not sure exactly on that stat, but for all intents and purposes, he dominated Davis Cup last year, and that’s a lot of pressure. You know, in case anyone has competed before to win for your country, for Great Britain, a country that has not won the Davis Cup for so many years, to win Wimbledon, it had been so many years since anyone from his country had done so, and to handle that pressure, to win multiple Grand Slams, and to be number 2 in the world, to play it in an era when, arguably, have 3 greatest players of all time, maybe 3 at the top 5 players of all time have played in: Djokovic, Federer and Nadal. And here’s Andy Murray, who continues to finish second, to most of those guys when they’re playing their best, but keeps getting better, keeps fighting, keeps finding ways to win, and yes, I know that he yells at his box when he gets frustrated. But again, if anyone’s been in the trenches, if anyone’s played tennis, and been there, battling day in and out, they know that it can be a frustrating experience, and sometimes, you do take it out on those closest to in the box. You know, he’s not perfect. He’ll be the first to admit that. And so, you know, I really think that a lot of these armchair quarter packs on Facebook and other coaches that bag players like in Andy Murray, it’s ridiculous to me. I’m sorry, but you know

Listen to 5 Reasons Roger Federer Won The 2017 Australian Open … Show Notes Hey, it’s Jeff Salzenstein, USTA High Performance coach, and former top 100 ATP player, and Roger Federer just won the 2017 Australian Open. And in another audio, I talked about the courage that he had to play fearless tennis, and to really go for a shot to have a clear head and a clear mind. And today, I want to go over the tangible strategies on why I think that he won this year’s Australian Open, and why I believe he can win more Grand Slams. Believe it or not, at the age of 35, he can do it with his new approach, with his more aggressive approach to the game. So, I’m going to go through the 5 reasons why Roger Federer won the Australian Open in 2017. Reason Number 1 He was fresh, and he was, let’s just say relaxed, because he had been off for 6 months. He had time to spend with his family. He had a new perspective when he stepped on to the court. So, a lot of times, when players have an injury, they come back hungrier, they come back more eager, more open-minded, and fresher in head and in the mind. And so, just having that outlook, taking that pressure off, maybe to win another Grand Slam, because maybe he wasn’t sure he could win a Grand Slam, he certainly didn’t think he was ready to win a Grand Slam in Australia. So, the pressure was off, he could play more free. Reason Number 2 Movement. When he’s been hurt, when he’s had the bad back or the bad knee, he’s playing it 90, 95%, and still top 5 in the world, top 4 in the world, but not the Roger Federer from 10 years ago. So, by taking the 6 months off, and getting healthy, and getting his movement in order, feeling fresh in his legs, and being able to explode to the ball, that makes all the difference in the world for him. Reason Number 3 The backhand down the line. I’ve never seen Roger Federer hit his backhand down the line like I did at the Australian Open. I always wondered when he was going to start either developing that shot or using that shot. My belief is that he’s always had the backhand down the line, but he’s been content with staying in a cross-court rally with the slice and with the drive, and he committed to changing direction and playing down the line with the backhand. Sometimes, he would hit it as a clean winner. Other times, he would hit it as a rally ball, and the whole idea behind him hitting down the line as a rally ball is that there’s a better chance he’s going to get a forehand on the next shot, whether it’s an inside out forehand, or he can run across the court and hit a cross-court or down the line forehand. So, just by changing direction with his backhand down the line and also hitting aggressively at the right time to hit clean winners, that was the big difference-maker for him off the ground. Reason Number 4 Now, related to that, he also committed more to his return of serve. I saw more backhand down the line returns off of the second serve. I saw more driving off of his return of serve. He usually has been content with slicing and starting points, but he now knows against guys like Nadal and Djokovic and Murray.

Listen to Jeff’s analysis of the 2017 Australian Open Mens Final… Show Notes This is Jeff Salzenstein, USTA High Performance coach, and former top 100 ATP Singles and Doubles player, and today, we’re going to talk about Roger Federer: his championship, his Grand Slam win at the Australian Open, the 2000 Australian Open, beating Rafa Nadal. Now, I woke up at 4:30 a.m., central time in Chicago. I was there watching Stanford play college, and I woke up without an alarm clock to see the 4th set beginning. Actually, Federer was serving at 1-2 in the 4th set, up 2 sets to 1, and for the next 30 minutes, I saw a player who went off the rails. He didn’t look like a player that was going to win that Grand Slam title against his arch-nemesis; the guy who has given him trouble his entire career, the guy you could arguably say he has a mental block against, and I really didn’t think he was going to do it. I thought it was going to be the same story on a different day and a different moment, and that was frustrating for me, because I really wanted Roger to get it, and to see him turn things around down 3-1 in the 5th set and play absolutely remarkable tennis, to play with so much courage, was exhilarating. It was so beautiful to watch him turn the tide in the biggest moment of his career against his biggest rival. I get goosebumps just thinking about it. Roger Federer, you are a legend. You are an absolute warrior. In fact, what he told his coach is he’s working with Severin Luthi, who has been with him for years, and Ivan Ljubicic who, by the way, I haven’t given him his due. He deserves his due now. What a remarkable job both these guys have done, especially Ivan. So, credit to those coaches. But he told his coaches: “I told myself to play free. You play the ball, you don’t play the opponent. Be free in your head, be free in your shots. Go for it. The brave will be rewarded here. I didn’t want to go down just making

Listen To Jeff’s Analysis… Show Notes Match Fixing in Tennis: The Ugly Truth Hey, it’s Jeff here, and I hope you’re having a great day out there. Now today, we’re going to talk about something very ugly in professional tennis, and no, we’re not going to talk about performance-enhancing drugs, although that is an ugly element of our sport. But today, we’re going to talk about match fixing, and I’m here to tell you today that it’s very real, and it’s somewhat common, very common. I wouldn’t want to say very common, probably too strong, but it’s happening on the pro tour, and it’s a very sad reality about our sport, and about money, and about greed, and temptation. And you know, the key here is that every player has to have their own level of integrity and character, and try to make the right choices. But I can see how it can be challenging, and I’ll explain why in a minute. A few days ago, at the time of this recording, 18-year old Oliver Anderson, the reigning junior champion at the Australian Open, was charged with distorting a betting outcome, and he did this at a challenger – a $50,000 challenger in October. Now, when you say $50,000, the winner only gets $7,000. The loser, first round loser, gets about $500. Now, imagine the expenses to get to the tournament, to hire a coach, imagine if you’re only making $500 or a thousand dollars a week when you lose first or second round. The temptation there might be to pay the bills. What if you have a family? What if you have to support a child? What if you have credit card debt? What if you have to pay for the coach? In pro tennis, there simply isn’t enough money being made by the lower-ranked players outside the top hundred to make an honest decent level of living. I mean, they’re going to make more money teaching tennis at the club. So, Oliver’s not the only one. Very recently, there were 34 players in Spain that were arrested for alleged match fixing at the futures level. They’re ranked between 800 and 1,200 in the world. These players are losing money on the tour. So, what if they play a match and they decide a bookie… someone’s going to pay them… a better’s going to pay them 30 grand to lose a match in the second round of the future or challenger, and all they have to do is go out there and play close until 4-all, miss a couple returns, miss a couple serves, make it look like they’re still trying, and pick up 30k in one day. It’s very tempting when you’re struggling, when you have a lot of pressure, when there’s fear. And some players succumb to that pressure. It’s very unfortunate. When I was playing, there were 2 Italians: Daniel Bracciali and Potito Starace. Great players, top 50 players. Potito got to 31 in the world, I believe. Bracciali was a great doubles player. I think I actually played him in doubles once, might have even beaten him in the challenger, but they’ve been banned for life from tennis for alleged match fixes, and this is going on. These are only the players that are getting caught. In fact, when I was playing, especially in Grand Slams, I would hear stories about doubles players that would be in the locker room, and they would know singles players that were injured but were still going to play the match. Maybe they were a seed, and they were supposed to win, but they hurt their groin or their knee, and they still wanted to pick up the check. They still wanted to get their money. They would go play the match, and they would get their money, and they the doubles players would play spa