ANALYZE SERVE STATS

“The circumstances are are good for Hodar as Fonseca gets broken and obliterates a racket, which, I don't know if I've ever seen him do. Maybe I've seen him crack a racket before, but that was that was violent. So whatever happened in that, Love one game, Fonseca was not happy about it. Podar has played in altitude his whole life. He's already won two matches. Fonseca got a withdrawal, so hasn't even played. So he hasn't really felt the match conditions or really, like, had a chance to, I guess, build up his confidence in these conditions, which I think means something.”

“Tennis also needs to make a decision about what they want from umpires. Do we want judgment, or do we want letter of the law rule following? Because if we want letter of the law rule following, then that that wasn't gravy. Like, that wasn't kosher, whatever term you wanna use. Tennis isn't, it's an attritional sport, and part of playing is being physically ready to play. And it's tough because the optics become you know, there's a level of cruelty in the optics if you're like, hey, man. Get ready to play, like, thirty seconds. Let's go.”

“And by the way, it is incredible how often Mahesh can take a ball that's coming deep, and he can play it with a full swing, full acceleration on the rise, and actually make the ball. His talent is through the roof. It's unbelievable talent that he can do this. But if he's forced to do it over and over and over again and, again, I'm I'm saying that most guys, when the ball is deep and they're on top of the baseline, especially if they're on top of the baseline, they're gonna take a little pace off in that situation. Mahaj doesn't. He just tries to blast it.”

“His serve is five miles per hour up on his average, one fifteen. He's usually at one ten. His forehand, which isn't all that great a lot of the time, it's three miles per hour above his average at 78 miles per hour. His backhand is a cannon. It's the best part of his game. Last year, he led the tour in backhand winners per match. Part of that is because he does a good job of stepping in and taking time away. Part of that is because he has a standout backhand drop shot.”

“Hodor also hit another great backhand second serve return where he takes it early on the rise, finds the center of the string bed, and just pings it down the line on the ad side. He is so good at taking that backhand early, getting on top of it. He is the kind of player, and this is I I'm saying this more and more often as the years go on. You've gotta be really, really careful hitting a kick serve to Hodar's back end because he's so good at taking it early on the rise and just getting that ball on you or away from you because it's so well directed often, it's a great backhand return, that Hodar possesses.”

“And, physically, I don't think he's quite ready for prime time. I think we'll see that we'll have a better idea of that when the sample size is larger, but I do think he beat Mote with pretty ragged legs after the three setter against Trungaliti. Should be said he also came through qualifying. Of course, he beat Trungaliti to, get into the main draw. But to me, he looks physically vulnerable. I don't see him as a threat to go much further because I don't think he's gonna have the legs, which is a it could be a real boon for Tsitsipas who gets him next.”

“I've talked a lot about this, but I think the reasons why Spanish tennis has lost some footing in recent years has been, they've come out with just too too many kinda subpar servers. Now, obviously, they've lost footing other than Carlos Alcaraz. You know what I'm talking about. It's just in terms of the depth, it's been nowhere near what it was in the, really the early two thousands through the late twenty tens. I think a lot of that has been down to the serving.”

“The ingredients for drop shot effectiveness is positive court position, disguise, and negative balance or negative momentum. So positive court position, throw that out the window. You've gotta start at the baseline. You're never gonna be inside the court. Disguise. Well, you can get it off quickly, but it's not ever gonna be a super well disguised technique. It looks nothing like a regular serve. And then you have balance. You wanna hit a drop shot when your opponent is retreating.”