Category: Video
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Video highlights: Andy Murray vs Bautista Agut in exhibition match
Will Andy Murray be a contender in next year’s slams? It’s hard to be too optimistic watching these highlights of Andy playing Roberto Bautista Agut in an exhibition match, earlier today. To be fair, it was only a one-set match and this is his first since Wimbledon, but the hip still appears to be a…
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The story behind ‘The Battle of the Sexes’
In hindsight, 1973 seems like a landmark year: it saw the UK hesitantly enter the European Economic Community (*cough*), Pink Floyd’sThe Dark Side of the Moon blow millions of teenage minds, Last of the Summer Wine blow millions of pensioners’ minds, Sunderland win the FA Cup and, most importantly, the first Pizza Hut open on UK soil. However, something even stranger…
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Video: How tennis balls are made
It’s a tough life if you’re a tennis ball: you’re thwacked around for a bit before being unceremoniously chucked into a bin, lost forever under a bush, lobbed to a drooling dog or sent as an insult to King Henry V. We take the luminous green creatures for granted, but how many of us actually know how…
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Video: Tennis on ice
As the UK experiences the last throes of winter (hopefully), we dip our toe into a particularly chilling episode from tennis history. Cast your mind back to 1938: Europe is teetering on the brink of cataclysmic war, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is blowing minds around the world, László Bíró has just patented his pen (finally giving people…
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Video: Bird blunders into Monte Carlo match
Think you’re having a bad day? Well, spare a thought for the poor ballboy who had to repeatedly shoo away a recalcitrant pigeon – all under the annoyed gaze of living-legend Rafael Nadal. Catching up on your emails suddenly doesn’t seem so bad now, does it? The feathered intruder made its entrance during the crucial…
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Video: ATP clay preview
It’s that time of the year again: when the professionals hit the powdery red stuff to slip and slide to glory… or embarrassment. That’s right – it’s clay court season. However, if you’re not exactly au fait with the ins and outs of the clay tournaments, like many people in the grass-obsessed UK, fear not: the ATP…
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Video: Shots of the year
We like a good video compilation here at Tennis Talent and, luckily for us, both the ATP and WTA have put together supercuts of the very best shots of the year. Let’s begin with this collection of Christmas goodies from the WTA season. It includes a shortlist of the four best shots (which Agnieszka Radwańska…
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Video: An ATP Christmas
It’s not quite Christmas until the ATP puts together its annual video of the top tennis brass mullering beloved songs and wearing ridiculous outfits. Take the plunge, if you dare. It’s difficult to decide who comes off worst/best from the video, but Henri Kontinen’s rap (1.28) and Jamie Murray’s angelic voice (1.39) are certainly “highlights”. Interestingly,…
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Video: Meet a young Andy Murray
Following Andy Murray’s hard-fought battle to remain World No.1 at the end of the season, we take a trip down tennis memory lane to one of his first television appearances on BBC Scotland. Training on what looks like an incredibly wet clay court, the 14-year-old Murray isn’t a million miles away from the consummate professional he…
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The three best videos showing how to return a serve
It’s one of the most underrated shots in tennis, but the return of serve sets the tone for the rest of the point. It’s a different beast to a normal groundstroke and should be tailored according to the power, depth and spin of the serve. To help improve your technique, we’ve trawled through the murky waters…
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