Brian Thinks: Ideas from the Court

Fantasy Tennis.  Install one shot or aspect from Roger Federer's game into your own game.

EPISODE 149

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Brian explains the purpose of the Tennis Rating Systems and how they can be a negative for your tennis game.

1. Define a Tennis Rating

2. History of Ratings

3. Types of Ratings.

4. Purpose of Ratings

5. Flaws of Tennis Ratings.

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How to Find Your Tennis Rating:  TennisRecord.com, Universal Tennis Rating, World Tennis Number (starting in 2020)

Brian gives practical advice for the spiraling excuses and negativity from your tennis partner.

SHOW NOTES / EPISODE 147

1. Don't Feed The Beast

2. Acknowledge with Okay

3. Refocus

4. ZipIt.com

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Eighty percent of people quit their New Year's Resolution by Jan 12th.  If you like finishing everything first then maybe you need a new resolution or yours was too easy.   Brian gives some helpful advice to challenge yourself while keeping things attainable.

SHOW NOTES / EPISODE 146

1. Take on a smaller goal.

2. Keep going. Forgive yourself if you fail.

3. Get granular within that goal.

4. Focus on the next 5 minutes.

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Brian explains the do's and don't's of playing tennis with your girlfriend.

SHOW NOTES / EPISODE 145

3 Scenarios for Playing Tennis With Your Girlfriend

1.  You are better than her.

2. You are the same level tennis players.

3.  Your Girlfriend is Better Than You

How to understands the social hierarchy in tennis.

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Brian's explains how the ball contact with the strings is so important to your tennis game.

SHOW NOTES / EPISODE 144

Features that Affect The Sweet Spot

1.  Racquet Face Size

2. Racquet Weight

3. Racquet Design

4.  Racquet Feel

Also check out the related episode #10 on String Tension to learn more about the sweet spot.

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Brian explains how to use a let with in the rules and good etiquette.

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Brian explains the difference between Tiebreakers including:  TieBreakers, Super Tiebreakers, Match Tiebreakers and Coman Tiebreakers.

SHOW NOTES / EPISODE 142

1.  Tie Breaker Invented

2. Super Tiebreaker aka Match Tiebreaker

3. Coman Tiebreaker

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Brian explains the difference in No Ad and Ad Scoring in tennis and why you when No Ad Scoring is used.

SHOW NOTES / EPISODE 141

1.  Definition of No Ad Scoring

2.  When and Where Is It Used?

3.  Why Is It Helpful?

4.  ATP Implements No Ad Scoring in Doubles?

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Brian explains the value of direction for your 2020 tennis game.

SHOW NOTES / EPISODE 140

1. Don't be so hard on yourself.

2. Reframe Your Day

3. Each Day You Are Getting Better

4. Give Your Opponent Credit

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