Hi Matt. Nice piece, as usual. Another obvious advantage lefties have over righties that you missed is that - because righties are much more common in the population and on the tour - both righties and lefies are used to playing righties, but righties don't have as much experience playing against lefties, so there's an adjustment righties have to make facing lefties that lefties don't have to make facing righties.
Basically, lefties are used to dealing with the cross-court forehand vs backhand conundrum, and how best to optimise the situation to their advantage. And lefties are used to wide sliced serves to their backhand and how to neutralise them.
These are always such a fun and interesting read, thank you.
Hi Matt. Nice piece, as usual. Another obvious advantage lefties have over righties that you missed is that - because righties are much more common in the population and on the tour - both righties and lefies are used to playing righties, but righties don't have as much experience playing against lefties, so there's an adjustment righties have to make facing lefties that lefties don't have to make facing righties.
Basically, lefties are used to dealing with the cross-court forehand vs backhand conundrum, and how best to optimise the situation to their advantage. And lefties are used to wide sliced serves to their backhand and how to neutralise them.