001 – Choosing the Right Tennis Racquet to Fit Your Game Style With Gus Giltner of Prince Global Sports

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have you ever wondered what is the right tennis racquet for you? Well in this episode, we are going to talk to Gus Giltner of Prince Global Sports and get his take on how to go about choosing the proper racquet. We will cover details ranging from Weight, head size, Grip size and more.

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In today’s episode we will:

1. Talk to Gus Giltner a prince rep who covers Michigan, Northern Ohio and Northern Indiana. He will discus how to choose a tennis racquet and what to look for (YES, IT IS THAT TIME OF YEAR)

1. Provide you with some homework, if you go to our site, and go to the show notes of episode 001, I am going to provide you with some match statistic that I took a while back. I will go over.

1. Answer some of your questions that you have been wanting answered

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Just a few things to remember that I think were important after talking to Gus:

1. get with someone that is knowledgeable
2. Go smaller rather than bigger with your grip size.

1. 1. More acceleration of the rqt head
   2. I have read that Nadal uses a 4 1/8 to 4 ¼
   3. Much easier to build up

1. Remember to use the rqt that you like for more than one day. It might just be you and not the rqt. I am sure you have played well and not so well with your present rqt.
2. Keep switching back and fourth. You might like one for serving vs another on for your graoundstrokes. You have to decide which is better
   1. If you are a doubles player, remember that you only be serving one out of every 4 games, but you will be hitting GS and volleys continually (just a thought.

Questions

Kathi: how do we know the right time to come into the net so they don’t lob us

1. Just remember that if you getting lobbed, it is not necessarily because they are great lobbers, you have to give them a shot that is difficult to lob. (underspin, at the feet, hitting the ball to the right area of the court, serving to thr correct area of the box.
2. I see this over and over where players want to come to the net, but do nothing to make it tough on their opponent. The old “here you go” syndrome. Usually this is follwed by “There it went”, over our heads of course
3. When you know you have wounded them. This will require a good approach or recognition of a ball that you hit from the backcourt. An example might include a great lob that you hit to them. Remember that when you see “butts and elbows”, close in!
4. If you stagger correctly, you should not have to worry about the lob. There are two theories behind this……………….

Theresa: What do you do when you have a really good player at the net who gets everything

1. Pick a window, she cant be two places at once
2. Have your partner stand back with you if she is getting blasted
3. Lob her over her backhand side or crosscourt where you have more room and she has to move more
4. Catch the returns earlier, so she cant get to the ball as easily
5. Hit it right at her, if she is poaching a lot, she will be moving away from your return

To finish up this episode, I said that in the last episode we were going to talk about winners and errors. We are going to save that for episode II, but I am going to attach a PDF in my show notes (on the website) with some match statistics on it.

What I would like you to do, is to go over them and decide who you think won the match. I will go over the answers in episode II and we will talk about what we should be focusing on when playing singles, and if we have enough time, I will throw in some great doubles ideas that are rock solid statistics as well

Match Statistics Info Sheet (No Names)

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See you in episode 2!

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