> Learning takes way longer than you expect, but its scope is often further reaching

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“It normally takes around six months for a player to get the basic of the forehand topspin technique, and it is then that we can start trying to integrate it into footwork patterns involving other strokes and new spins,” Phillips says. “There is no shortcut.”

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