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Today is 10 minutes of tennis with World Renowned Tennis Coach Australian in Puerto Rico

Justin Yeo.

We are continuing our path talking about the future of tennis and Justin.

We're going to be like, we're going to be like weathermen and try to predict the future

which is impossible.

We know.

But, you know, maybe we get lucky and it's right.

But we're looking at trends.

We're looking at what's coming next today.

We want to look at the Rome final.

So we're going to look at this past Sunday's final between center and Alcaraz.

So if I just say the generic question, I want to see where you start with this.

So Justin, what does the Rome final tell us about the future of tennis?

Short term.

Welcome to Carlos Alcaraz.

The man held his composure, he stuck to a game plan.

He didn't get too creative.

He used the shots when he was supposed to play.

He played a pitch of perfect game.

And I think center got a big shake up because the interesting thought was that how first

of percentage of Carlos wasn't as strong as it was in the first set.

Second set was stronger.

But first set wasn't as strong.

Unlike his new technique, he is definitely penetrating on the first serve, but he didn't

get enough of him.

But what's interesting is because of his new first serve or new serve technique, his second

serve was very penetrating.

And he went for the lines, which kept center at bay.

And I thought that was probably one of the biggest elements.

The two elements I thought it stood out the most was his serve and his spin.

He was getting incredible spin, especially back and end for him.

So anyway, I thought those two elements were amazing.

But he played a pitch of perfect game, which I think is really the biggest standout for

that tournament.

If he can stick with this, welcome Carlos Alcarez, because we're going to see a very steady player

now.

And I've been waiting for this.

I've been saying, look, he's just not mature enough yet.

So he sort of wants to have fun.

He wants to play.

And it's like, hey man, you want to win titles?

You've got to be the machine.

It's been the last couple of years that we've watched him.

We said, wow, he's amazing.

He hits drop shots.

He's having fun.

He's hitting tweeners.

He's got a big smile on his face and he's likable.

And that took him for a while.

But then he realized over the last couple of years, or he was coached to realize that he needs

to get it together.

He needs to get focused.

He needs to be a professional stick to the game plan.

Having fun is fun.

But you want to be the guy like center.

You got to do what you got to do.

And it's less fun.

Is that true?

No, because I mean, I used to when I ran my large academy as serious tennis in Melbourne,

Australia, what I would say to the kids is, isn't it fun winning?

I thought winning is fun, right?

It was fun.

Wasn't that?

I could swan.

They say winners are winners and people feel really happy and joyful and feel amazing when

they win.

So I would say that's having fun.

So how about we just stick to being a little more focused, a little more mature, a little

more composed and work on the game plan to then get the fun at the end?

And that's where I think that's where I'm seeing Carlos play now as he's starting to look

like he's going to be a serious professional and a serious contender, I should say.

And that's probably the best match I'd seen him play hands down, especially against a

very good opponent who's playing well.

He's going to serve better in the final than in the semi-final.

Cedar wasn't looking injured as he did in the semi-final.

And he just got, I guess he got what we call dominated or dictated and second set was

all over.

So very interesting.

We'll be different times on a how-cord or a grass court.

Well, that's a direction I want to take this because I see a huge weakness in Cineer's

game and he's number one in the world by 1200 points and he's stayed number one in the world

having to take 90 day vacation.

So this guy can't volley.

Now I say can't volley, he's number one in the world, he's better than I am at volleying.

Don't get me wrong.

The guy's a good volleyer but he doesn't slice, he's 95, 96 percent, if not 98 percent

topspin.

It's reminding me of one of the Australian opens where we watched Novak and Rafa just

hit the ball back and forth for six hours and I don't know that that's a good long-term

plan for him.

Are they going to have to teach him out of volley at some point?

Oh, sorry, I have a lot of, because he has a great volley.

He does practice volley.

It was one.

And over two in the match, come on.

He coached and he's coached Darren Cale is always making him play volley.

So then why does he still suck at it?

Why does he, he's got no net game, he can't come forward but my point being and he's still

number one in the world.

He doesn't have that all around game or maybe just doesn't need it.

So okay, so let's put, let's put Sverev and Sino together because that height, it's

not as quick as it is from outside the baseline on a clay court to get to the net when there's

so far back.

Sverev's got three inches on center.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, but he's still very tall center.

Tennis very tall.

He's a very tall six too.

I think if there was anything that would work on his foot speed getting forward so that

he could get there quicker.

He also has to what we call take the risk and go forward when he sees the right shot and

he hasn't done that yet either.

The shots that he missed volleys, he came in not necessarily the wrong time but didn't, his

preparation coming in is where I would work on things.

I wouldn't work on his volleys.

His volleys, his stroke is good.

From my perspective, we might never know if he can volley because he's never at the net

so we don't have to worry about it and we don't know if he's got a slice either because

he never does it and I don't compare him to Sverev in the way that I still thinks

Sverev's net game is garbage too.

But my question is the future.

Are these players still capable?

Are they just bigger, faster, stronger because center can win from the baseline still when

we think of the all around game as being the next great idea?

Yeah, okay, so that's a good point.

If center is to shut down Alcharez, he's going to have to find his way in.

Simple as that because if I go baseline to baseline with the amount of spin Alcharez is

shorter, he's got more stroke variation.

He's definitely an amazing defender and so I would be cautious to go toe to toe all day

and long and you would have to find your way in.

I hope so but again, my question always goes back to in this series, the future of tennis

and that's why I bring up this question.

We still seem to see the latent hewitt style.

I can just hang out back here and bang away and there's nothing you can do about it and

you it was even able to win a win.

Yeah, well I guess I mean you can go all the way back to Matt's Volanda.

I mean Matt's Volanda was one of the first that would just stay on the baseline.

Then you can go all the way back to Vyn Lendel.

Vyn Lendel very rarely volleied.

He volleied on serve but he very rarely came forward to volley and he didn't serve volley.

He stayed off the baseline so yes the baseline game still exists and it always has existed.

I think we're seeing more variety and more variation and definitely if I had a little

child I'd be teaching every grip, every grip.

Even an Eastern backhand for a forehand drop shot.

I have a look at these guys that are on the run.

They're grippers the complete other side of the racket to be able to get over the net and

hit and the drop shot and the touch is just incredible and that does not happen late in

a career.

That happens at a very early age to be able to learn every side of the bevel and learning

how to use the hands and use the racket face.

So I've said that from many years.

The game is old about your hands.

It's actually more obvious now than ever.

Ossies would like to think that but center would disagree.

That guy is just banging away and it seems to work.

Even though he's got an Ossie as a coach so maybe that's the direction he's going to go.

Next week what I want to do is I want to talk about the upcoming rolling garros, French

Open and bring in some of the external scenarios that players today have to deal with.

Like the mental fortitude of what you've got to do with everything going on around you,

with the coaching, with the tweets, with the trolls, with the world around them and the

press conferences and how everything is.

Things are just different and tougher reminder of the conversation we had with Murphy

Jensen.

So next week I want to follow up with that but I will keep hammering this.

If we're talking about the future of tennis, why is center still winning just banging away

at the baseline?

That's going to be a theme of questions coming from me.

Well I'm going to throw it at you to finish then is the drop shot to drop shot beating

Alcharez drop shot to drop shot.

If he didn't have the hands there's no way he'd be able to do that.

And if you would line out of seven times.

One time he had a great drop shot.

Throughout the tournament it was amazing but anyway.

The future of tennis also if I were had a young kid is starting to focus on data.

It was amazing how many data points they were showing velocity of spin, velocity of racket,

velocity of ball pace, the depth, the change up.

The only thing I think they don't do enough showing is the difference between someone

three to six to eight to nine feet back and when they start to dictate how much they

are sitting up on that baseline.

So I think next week.

Two in the next week for what we've got a lot of future to talk about.

Yeah and then a lot of people fall asleep.

Just don't understand either is why we see in place so many with tape and injuries.

I don't have a memory scene that in my days.

I don't remember seeing Sam Perez.

I don't remember seeing so much tape and so many injuries.

So that's an interesting one.

All right.

Two in and three weeks from now when we have that conversation.

I appreciate it.

This has been 10 minutes of tennis with Justin Yo, Australian and Puerto Rico.

Thank you, Sarah.

We'll see you next week.

Cheers, mate.

See ya.

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