Carsten Ball. Photo by Tessa Kolodny.
Michael Yani plays the number seven seed Carsten Ball in the 2008 Newton Cox USTA Men's Professional Tennis Classic in Mobile, Alabama, on Tuesday. Yani would be wise to put in a phone call to Michael McClune.
McClune laid the blueprint on how to beat Carsten Ball in a final match in the Mansfield Futures in October, 2007. If Yani were to get McClune on the phone, this is what McClune would tell him...
"Carsten Ball has some pop. He loves to hit ground strokes low and hard. He is a powerful hitter. You have got to push him back, back, back to the fence. That is the only way you stand a chance against his power. You hit the ball all the way to the baseline and make him hit from beyond the baseline. That is how you take away his power.
"One more thing: watch out for the drop shot. He uses it judiciously, sparingly. It is a beauty. It drops just beyond the net and bounces away from you. Good luck."
Yani and the left-handed Carsten Ball play around 11 a.m. Tuesday in this tournament which is also called the Mobile Futures. The Futures is kind of a minor league in tennis; with another level called the Challenger and yet another the ATP series.
McClune laid the blueprint on how to beat Carsten Ball in a final match in the Mansfield Futures in October, 2007. If Yani were to get McClune on the phone, this is what McClune would tell him...
"Carsten Ball has some pop. He loves to hit ground strokes low and hard. He is a powerful hitter. You have got to push him back, back, back to the fence. That is the only way you stand a chance against his power. You hit the ball all the way to the baseline and make him hit from beyond the baseline. That is how you take away his power.
"One more thing: watch out for the drop shot. He uses it judiciously, sparingly. It is a beauty. It drops just beyond the net and bounces away from you. Good luck."
Yani and the left-handed Carsten Ball play around 11 a.m. Tuesday in this tournament which is also called the Mobile Futures. The Futures is kind of a minor league in tennis; with another level called the Challenger and yet another the ATP series.
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