Serveitup Tennis Magazine #67

Issue #67 September 2021 

real junior tennis 

Why Are You Hitting 

Deep Balls 

Open Stance The 

Better Shot 

Freedom To Make 

Mistakes 

PURSUING 

HER DREAMS 

Serveitup September 2021 1

Tennis Talk 

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Dear Junior Tennis Players, 

Becoming a better tennis player is never going to be 

an easy task. It is going to come down to you, really 

wanting it badly, and then prepared to go out there 

with the mindset to literally outwork everyone. 

Even if your coach showed you the shots, and demonstrated 

it to you repeatedly, or even if you watch 

hours of videos, you’re still going to have to go out 

there, and put in the physical work, repetitiously. 

It’s going to take you working on it over, and over 

and over again, and that’s going to take some time, 

real time: and there are no shortcuts. You may look 

bad, and struggle at times, but the payoff is worth all 

the frustration. Just know that some strokes you’ll 

master faster than others, and normally the strokes 

you struggle with the most, becomes your weapons. 

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#67 

September 2021 

6 

Without Endurance 

Nothings Happening. 

14 

Juniors Lose Points 

On Serve Recovery. 

in this issue 

8 

12 

20 

30 

Train Anaerobically. 

Why Are You Hitting 

Deep Balls. 

Who Is Mansi Vadyala. 

Isolate to Master. 

16 

18 

34 

36 

How To Ruin Your 

Confidence. 

Open Stance The 

Better Shot. 

20 

Cover Story 

Who Is Mansi Vadyala 

Performance Assessments. 

Footwork. 

32 

Freedom To Make 

Mistakes. 

37 Cat Lee. 



without 

ENDURANC 

NOTHINGS happ 


If you can’t get to the ball, then you 

can’t hit the ball, period. It doesn’t 

matter how well you started, or that 

you won the first set, or how much better 

your strokes are, than your opponent. 

If you don’t have the endurance 

to finish the match, it doesn’t matter, 

you’re gonna lose. 

E 

ening 



If you truly desire to be 

ditioned as an athlete, 

train 

ANAEROB 


physically fit and contrain 

anaerobically. 

ICALLY 


onCourt 


with 

Mansi Vadyala 

Instagram @mansivadyala 


onCourt 

with 

Anya Mae Taylor 

Instagram @anya8mae 



why are you hittin 

deep balls 


The vast majority of players (pros, college, 

juniors) all look alike. They all stand 

back behind the baseline, and rip the 

ball. 

And where does it go, to their opponent 

on the other baseline. All these players 

are very good at moving laterally: but 

the moment they have to run forward 

into the court, they mess up the shots. 

So why are you hitting the balls deep 

to your opponents continually. The objective 

of the game is for you to win the 

points, in order to win the game; not to 

hit the ball back to the opponent. 

There is a fore court, and there are sides 

g 

of the court, use them. Hitting balls deep 

are basically good, for return of serves. 

Otherwise, you’re basically sending the 

balls back to your opponent, so they can 

try to win the points, instead of you. 


juniors lose 

serve re 



points on 

covery 

Right after they finish their serves and 

are falling away “off“ their serves, is 

where most juniors lose their points. 

It’s because they’re off-balanced, and 

their feet is not prepared for the ball 

that’s coming back from the returner. 

Even if they get it back, they still lose 

the point, because they end up rushed 

and out of position. 



h 

c 

The surest way to ruin your confidence, 

is to play tournaments when 

you know you’re not ready. So if you 

know you’re struggling with things 

in your practice sessions, wait until 

your strokes are more manageable 

before you play. Cause It will only 

ruin your confidence, and push your 

development further back. 


ow to ruin your 

onfidence 


Tennis 

open 

Talk 

stance 

the better swing 

Open stance, is a better swing when you 

are looking for placement, balance and 

disguise. Hitting your forehand close 

stance limits your stroke tremendously. 

This is especially true, for balls that are 

coming diagonally across your body. 

It restricts the hips from squaring back 

parallel to the net. 




Mansi 

VA 


Cover Story 

From USA with love 

DYALA 



I started playing tennis at the age of 4 in 

my hometown at the time Florence,Kentucky. 

My parents decided to put me in 

tennis because they went to the US Open 

and thought it would be cool if one of 

their kids played tennis. 

As time went on I grew an interest in the 

sport and wanted to go places with it. My 

parents saw that I had an interest in the 

sport and that I had the ability to make it 

far. 

For that reason they decided to get me 

better training, and we moved to Dallas, 

Texas when I was 9. I played for a year or 

so just for fun without that real drive and 

passion I needed to get to my dreams. 

When I was 11 that was when I really said 

to myself that I wanted to play professionally 

and to do that I needed to commit to 

the sport. I started doing school online 

and playing tennis full time. 





My game improved tremendously in that 

year and I was gaining a lot of confidence 

in myself. Shortly after a year of online 

school I injured my knee pretty badly and 

couldn’t even walk. 

I had tendinitis in both knees and I got a 

cyst in the back of my right knee preventing 

me from bending it. It was a very long 

road to recovery that included physical 

therapy, stretching, taped up knees and 

more. 

I was finally able to go back to practice after 

resting for 2 months, but I could only 

do drop hitting and serve. It was really 

hard on me mentally because the process 

of recovery was really slow. 

Eventually I was able to start running and 

slowly built my game back up better than 

before. I started to play tournaments but 

the pain in my knee was always there and 

hindered me a lot. 



As I started to reach a new high in my 

game Covid hit and we were forced to 

quarantine until May. 

In that time I tried to do as much hitting 

on a backboard as I could as well as my 

own fitness. When we came back again it 

felt like I had to start all over again but it 

benefited me in the end. 

I continued my journey until in September 

we started to plan a move to Florida 

but right before that in October I hurt my 

knee again. 

Another month of rest and I was back at it 

and we went to Florida for the month of 

November where I grew a lot as a tennis 

player. 

When I came back to Dallas I decided I 

wanted to go back there and continue 

building my game with another group of 

coaches. 





The hardest part was leaving my friends 

and family behind as only my dad and 

I made the move. I was there for three 

months but again my knee pain came 

back in May and I took a whole month off. 

I came back from that injury with a new 

focus and drive and began improving a 

lot in short periods of time. 

As I started to play ITFs I met coach Wesley 

and began working with him. This is 

where I am today, a 15 year old girl on 

a path to try and achieve my dreams of 

playing professional tennis. 

follow her on instagram 

@mansivadyala 


ISOLATE 


to master 


Just like every company bringing a 

product to market, they run tests 

repeatedly on the individual parts 

until it’s successful. Tennis players 

should do the same in practice. 

They should take a stroke or a return 

or serve or a pattern, and work on it 

over and over again, until success. 




FREEDOM 

to make 

MISTAKES 

Players get so afraid in practice 

to make mistakes, because a parent 

or coach, keeps yelling “keep 

the ball in the court“ That’s the last 

thing players need to hear. Practice 

should be the one place where you 

have all the freedom to go for any 

shots, and make the mistakes, and 

right there, work on learning how 

to do it correctly. 


performance 


assessmen 


ts 

At the end of every practice session, 

you need to have an overall 

assessment of your performance. 

You need to do a self assessment, 

and also have your coach give you 

his take. This will help to determine 

whether you are being productive 

or unproductive, in your practices. 



footwork! 

float like a 

butterfly 


Artist: Cat Lee 

follow her on instagram @colacatlee 



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