USTA 7.0 My Tennis HQ vs. USTA 4.5 Winston | Singles Tennis Set with Karue Sell (ATP #371 High)

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Winston - 4.5
Karue - 7.0

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Timestamps
0:00 - intro
0:49- set
8:50 - analysis

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[Karue-Sell]

Pleasure to meet you, Winston! We’ll link up again

[rafaelleal]

I love how he stopped mid-game to give you advice on how to return serves, Karue is defo goated!

[lurfmonkey]

I'm a 50 year old 4.0 player, but I regularly hit with a former 6.0 division I college player still in his 20s. When I first started playing with him, he constantly hit winners on me and we rarely had rallies longer than 4 shots. I kind of played like you in that I hit with a lot of topspin and the ball landed safely in the court with a lot of margin. It worked against players my own level, but it clearly wasn't working against someone far above me. I changed my game drastically in order to keep up with him. I started staying very close to the baseline and refused to get pushed back. That required me to learn how to hit the ball well on the rise. It took time away from him because if he had time, I was toast. I learned how to hit the ball deeper, even with heavy topspin. That reduced his ability to attack my shots. I made use of redirection a lot. He provided so much power, it didn't take much for me to change the direction of the ball with a short backswing and get him moving around the court. Lastly, I learned to flatten out my shots when the time was right. If you constantly use loopy topspin, it's really hard to hit winners or force errors against high level players, even if you are hitting the sidelines. Driving the ball at the right time can either produce winners or put them on their heels. It's not my natural shot, but it's something I had to develop. All of these changes went a long way to making him less comfortable and allowing me to dictate points way more often than before. Even though he's still the better player, things are way less lopsided now, and he definitely noticed. I think those adjustments would help against the high level players you play against. You're a higher rating than I am, so it should be well within your abilities.

[nicogoebel]

Karue’s technique is just so beautiful. Watching him you instantly see that he used to be a pro.

[dustyroot]

Karue looked like he was walking around the court during the points. So smooth it’s almost unfair.

[randymarcum]

On YouTube you have Tennis instructors who can not hit a top spin backhand and giving instructions on how to hit a backhand. Karue is the real deal. Great player but also excellent on explaining the correct technigue and how to take your game to a higher level

[hieulecong]

the best match ive ever seen involved in rec player so far on youtube. you managed to bring your best tennis but karue is just too good. bravo

[Blueian]

As a high school player it’s so nice to watch high level tennis content like this. Karue is the definition of a goated tennis tuber and tennis player!

[MoonDoy]

It was really cool to see the difference in pace.

When I watch videos of Karue vs Marcos Giron, they are unfazed by the pace and its deceiving to the viewer just how fast balls are because they have good footwork and good at anticipating. This video you can clearly see the difference in the quality/pace of balls between pro and club level. Many of Winston's shots were defensive as he was fighting to stay alive.

[feichang]

Very nice of you putting Karue on the camera side. Pros move so efficiently even when you make good shots

[HankHell]

The rally ending at 8:45 is the best I've ever seen you play!

[nguyen]

Man you can see how much work and skill Karue put into refining his game. Every stroke and serve seemed like he was putting in 80% of his game. Looked pretty effortless. Reminded me of how my friend (who played on the Futures and pre at events) hit. So smooth and skillful!

Winston you definitely held your own, keep going and you'll continue to get better bro!

[ChrisL]

Karue is an ATP/WTA Practice and hitting partner, & makes his living getting high-quality balls back! No way you/any of us are going to out-consistency him! He said it at the end, get balls back and the opponent will start going for broke out of frustration. Great video!

[victoralmager]

Fun and informative video with great concepts. I know Karue Sell as I had chaired his match where he won the $25k Heritage Banks Tennis Championships in Moraga, CA. He played exactly how he described. The same ideas he shared he used to defeat his opponents. Plus, if I am correct - he is Brasilero!! Good match.

[hleaf]

Very cool of Karue to do this, and great playing considering the circumstances Winston. Why does even the sound of the racket hitting the ball have to be so much better from great players!?

[tenniswithandy]

Hi Winston, I’m so proud of you for putting this out there and for the effort you showed on the court. This was some high quality hitting by you and even when you were down, you didn’t resort to desperation tactics. The set point was epic and you should bottle that point construction up and use it for all your matches. My scouting advice for playing Karue: don’t hit the ball to his forehand or backhand. 😂

[MrBryantwong]

This is awesome! We need more collabs from different tennis influencers

[mact]

a very good rec player vs a tour lvl player. I really appreciate you made this happen.

[deldridg]

Excellent content and thank you. A ton of effort goes into this much editing. As for the take-away here - it's so important to stay within yourself in any sport - especially tennis. It's so easy to feel the pressure to ratchet up your game against a stronger opponent. The higher error rate has a psychological effect in that once you've decided that hitting bigger is the way to win, as you fall further behind, you feel even more pressure to hit even bigger shots - a certain doom loop (bit like gambling - throwing good money after bad). At least that's how I have at times felt. Many thanks and cheers from Sydney - Dave

[dolinainggolan]

it's an eye opener that at this high level of strokes, alot of them are still very safe shots, no crazy angles or down the line shots that are too risky.