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Toure Show

Chris Eubanks-I Play Tennis

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Chris Eubanks is a pro tennis star with a monster serve. In this interview from 2022, we talk about pro tennis from every angle from stroke technique to why there’s so many great Black players right now. If you love tennis you gotta check this out. Toure Show Episode 321: Chris Eubanks-I Play Tennis Original Air Date: April 22, 2022  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, ready?

0:01.0

Think what you know, and it's about a time when you get yourself in we are.

0:13.0

I want to know some things she's, I think about every one you need it. I'm holding things are green and brim now I'll have seen you wanting you Hey Good to a race show Okay though Good to a race show Okay though That might be the best question I've ever been asked.

0:48.4

What are some of the technical keys that make your forehand so huge and so effective?

0:54.0

For me, I think my biggest thing is just making sure I'm making contact with my arm as straight

0:59.1

as possible. It's a bit of a common theme you'll find amongst them the best forns in the

1:02.9

world. Rangers, the Federer to Nadal to Delo Alto. A lot of times when they're making

1:08.7

contact with the ball in front, their arm is completely straight.

1:11.6

To me, I think that gives a little bit of easier power.

1:13.6

Now, it seems a bit to teach it to somebody who's never done it.

1:17.6

It's a bit unorthodox.

1:19.6

You seem there you go, there's no way I'm really going to be hitting the ball like this.

1:21.6

But as you go on in time and time, and I think I started it when I was about 14, 15, and I had to kind of just change my

1:28.5

forehand all together for maybe about six months. And it felt so uncomfortable. I'm like, my arm is so straight. I feel like I can't really do anything. I don't have any control. But once you get used to it, making contact there, the power just becomes so much easier to generate. and then you get good with redirecting and change the direction and doing whatever

1:45.2

kind of making the ball do what you wanted to do.

1:47.4

So my biggest... so much easier to generate and then you get good with redirecting and change the direction and

1:44.5

doing whatever kind of making the ball do what you wanted to do so my biggest the only thing that

1:49.0

I think about on my forehand a lot of times it's making contact with my arm as completely straight

1:52.5

as possible and then after that the everything else just kind of takes care of itself

1:56.3

chris eubanks is the 150th best tennis player in the world. He's six foot seven with a monster

2:03.4

served and a gigantic forehand. And I have loved watching him rise up through the ranks. And I am

2:10.1

rooting for him every time he takes the court. And it was an honor to get on the phone with him

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