What Makes Alex Eala So Tough to Play? + Why You Can’t Copy Sinner & More | Q&Andy

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**Andy Roddick** (1:03)
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I don't know what the hell you're going to ask. Normally, producer Mike, but he is off. Techie Sean in the big chair. Here we are. For Q&A. Wow. Let's do this shit. Cool. Well, before we get started, I'm going to try and remember Mike's preamble. But if you want to go ahead and ask questions, go ahead and submit them to askandyatservepodcast.com or just go to our website, servedpodcast.com. There's a little button up there you can send in your questions. Boop. Boop, boop. Oh, we have a button now?
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**Andy Roddick** (1:41)
Don't want to get in the way of momentum. All right, cool. Question number one, starting off, we have a question from Jane who writes, should coaches teach young players to play like Jannik Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz? I hate that. I hate that thing. I've been a coach. I coach my players to hit their forehands like Pete Sampras.
What? No, you can't teach everyone to play. What if you try to teach everyone to play like Johnny Mac? You take half swings? Yeah. No. If there are technical parts that you like, their preparation is phenomenal, their footwork is phenomenal. If there's things you want to copycat, but you want to teach every junior to hit the ball as hard as they can, both wings and not miss like Sinner, I don't know. I would take out the parts that aren't based in the best ball striking of all time. His ability, the circle C movement to get forehands, the getting in and out of the corners. Listen, if you want to say, I'd like the options, I need to learn how to hit a chip, I need to be able to switch paces, all of those things, yes, but to simply say, like I teach kids to play like Jannik Sinner, yeah? Do you have a bridge that you can sell me?
Nice, all right, cool. Speaking of Carlos, Maxwell wrote in asking, Alcaraz seems to develop changes to his game more quickly than others. What affects how fast a player can adapt? Talent helps. Same with Sinner, by the way. I know we're kind of in the Alcaraz Sinner tornado early on in this Q&Andy, even though they're not playing in Cincinnati, but talent, lack of ego, right? Like, whenever I made changes, it was like I went down clawing, fighting, and it was like insecurity, ego. This has worked for me.
So one, I think Carlos, maybe along with Roger, is able to hit every single shot in any pitch count anytime.
But what amazes me, maybe even more so about Sinner than Carlos, is his ability to be open to change, even though he's been as successful as he's been over the last two and a half years, which is a phenomenal run. You know, whether it's platform, step up. Okay, well, we'll switch it. I mean, I was with him at Wimbledon and on air, and I asked him about it, and he said, I don't know, like, I'll just change it. And if it doesn't work, I can always go back. It's not like I've lost the ability to platform serve if it doesn't work in Tokyo. Is that most players? He makes everything, like, you feel like a dumbass when you ask him a question, because the answers are so simple. It's like, how do you do this? How do you just make the changes? Like, I don't know, I just do it, and then I could always switch back. I'm like, yeah, OK. Like, I don't. But bringing his ball toss back a little bit after the US. Open last year, you know, Carlos and his is the way he takes the serve down is rounded at the bottom as opposed to like straight up and straight down. It just seems like they try it. And I guess if I'm a coach, the thing that I would learn from this is I loved what Yannick said. Listen, if this doesn't work and you take it out for a date and you don't like it, you can break up. Is there always or is there a fear that if you start to change something, you can't go back?