Lesson 3 of 4 · Move and react · 6 min

Choose the start that gets you there.

Choose a start for the ball you face. Inspect the movement, then practise arriving with room to swing.

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Inspect a traced return frame by frame

Understand why a counter-step is not automatically a fault

Practise balanced arrivals with room to swing

Compare similar feeds before judging a start

Watch it traced

The stroke, eight instants at a time.

Traced frame by frame from real footage, then lit like the rest of the Academy. Flip through it: the shape of the swing is the lesson before a word of it is written.

Djokovic's return, instant 6 of 8 — Djokovic's return: eight instants traced from the footage, frame for frame. Hover or tap to flip; the dot marks contact.

Djokovic's return: eight instants traced from the footage, frame for frame. Hover or tap to flip; the dot marks contact.

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