Having played, coached, lived, written about, breathed, hated, and loved tennis – depending on the time period – throughout my life, I finally took the advice of many of my friends who relentlessly tried to convince me to start a tennis blog.
The end result is Mertov’s Tennis Desk (MT-Desk), born in April, 2012. I found several articles that I have written in the past and gathered them here. Then, on February 15th, 2014, MT-Desk moved to its current website. Future articles will also appear here. This is my personal site and the opinions expressed are not affiliated with any media organization. I expect no income from it. MT-Desk is strictly for the enjoyment of my friends and any tennis fan who wishes to stop by and read my pieces (and by all means, feel free to comment).
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I noticed your article about federers backhand topspin return. Today against zverev he sliced all first serve returns. Do you think the serve was too hard to return as a topspin.
Thanks nizam
Hi Nizam,
I believe you are talking about this article I wrote:
http://www.mertovstennisdesk.com/2015/11/02/59-2-not-just-a-stat-for-federer/
As to your question, I would say that he still feels most comfortable with slicing/blocking returns on the backhand side, especially against big-serving opponents (and Zverev was serving very BIG in that match). In that article, I was rather emphasizing how he had to get away from doing that against Nadal, specifically, to avoid having to scramble the rest of the point. It will be interesting to see if he will go back to that, the next time he plays Rafa, since it worked out for him in Basel.
Thanks for your comment
Mert
Hello
my name is Chantal. i live in Paris. i’ll be at Roland Garros friday, saturday and sunday ! i can see you are there too !
do you think you can help me and give me some information about practice sessions program for the days i’ll be there ? because the RG organisation do not publish the program on the website, which is a pity…
by the way i’m looking for Garbiñe Muguruza. so i really hope you can help ^^
i wish you a pleasant stay in Paris and maybe will meet !
take care
chantal
Hi Chantal,
I emailed you about this. Please check your email box.
MT-Desk