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Esparsia coach told the way how Nadal wins.

After last week’s Hakone camp and dinner on the second day, Esparcia coach gathered junior
players and made time for the question corner. As I introduced Esparcia coach in this blog,
I wrote as “A man who beat Nadal as a coach”, so “What kind of strategy did you tell before
Nadal’s match? I got a question. When Esparcia coach was a tour coach of Guillermo Garcia Lopez, he fought against Nadal at the Thai Open, and Guillermo beat him.

Esparcia coach taught three things.

(1) Fight hard.
(2) Hating a long rally.
(3) Hit a short ball effectively.
(1) is the basis of tennis.
By using the physical to the maximum and fighting without giving up, you can compete in score like anyone fighting. Even a top seed player does not always win at the low scores. First of all we need to fight hard and compete to 4-4 or 5-5.

You can play with your strong points against your opponent’s weak points.

Guillermo is really tall, has a strong ball strikes, and there are also reaches, so he can put pressure on the net. he can do slicing well because the backhand is one hand.

There I avoided a long rally, attacked it with a fast tempo, and made many things on the net.

That’s right. Nadal is a player who strikes an intense spin ball with a western grip and the coat covering is phenomenal.
Even if he hits a good ball in the corner, Nadal will return with counter shot at the corner again.So it seems to have made it difficult to spin with a short slice ball daringly. He had a short volley anyway if he had the opportunity of volley. Nadal’s passing will come when he hits deep, and drop volley will catch up with it.

By hitting the balls short, it seems that we got into a strategy that made Nadal players hard to return and to connect to points.

Compete plus alpha to win a match.

First of all, he will make close score match with hard work. So he goes out to the net and touch the balland try short volley. He hates long rallies and got a match earlier. Heattracted victory in that way. Bring it to close match first, and make a match according to plan in important places.

When winning the strong player there will be no other chance than doing this.I think that the idea of letting the opponent’s weak points and their favorite places fight is very important.

When you observe tennis to such rival with that kind of eyes, it will come into various ways.