Here is a very nice article by tennis journalist Joel Drucker on Tennis.com. Dr. Kovacs provided some quotes as he has some serious background with both players in different ways. He travelled and worked with John Isner for a number of years and saw the meteoric rise for Milos Raonic during his first few years of Milos’s career up close. Read the FULL ARTICLE here
Milos Raonic and John Isner are two of the greatest servers of recent times. “From a technical standpoint, they’re both textbook,” said Mark Kovacs, a tennis scientist who heads the Atlanta-based Kovacs Institute. As Kovacs sees it, the 6’5” Raonic is a first-rate practitioner of the “platform,” wherein the feet stay spread throughout the motion. Roger Federer was also a superb platform server.
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