In addition to consistency, control, spin and power, much less trying to produce your best tennis when the chips are down, a large part of the game includes your precise awareness of the conditions – meaning the direction of the wind, as well as the location of the sun. The next time you are on ...…
Many ways to play this game, many ways to grip the racquet, and truly many ways to hit the ball. Flat, topspin, slice, sidespin, under spin – just to name a few (if not them all). We know to hit up on the ball for topspin, to swing slightly down on the ball for slice ...…
This one is entirely visual. Draw a full circle with your racquet, visualizing the face of a clock. At 3 and 9 o’clock, your arm is horizontal, the racquet head is well away from your body. Down at 5 and 7 o’clock your arm points down, the racquet head falls below your hand, and your ...…
As Blackie Jones (my first coach) would ask of a student,”If there are two parts to the serve, being the toss and the swing, do you think it is better to swing at the toss, or toss into the swing?” And as his lessons and demonstrations proceeded, we were schooled in the tempo, the technique, ...…
Whether pitching, throwing footballs, unleashing your forehand, or unwinding on the overhead or the serve – your non dominant arm plays a very, very important role. I have a daughter, and have never liked the term, “throwing like a girl.” That said, inexperienced as well as inexpert throwers let their non dominant arm hang at ...…
Learn the secret that unlocks the power of the Pete Sampras serve – call it forearm rotation But first experiment at the net before putting it into your own service delivery. At the net put your forearm at net level and parallel to the net strap, with the racquet head at right angles to your ...…
If you want to hit the ball with less effort and more power, take a page from the baseball batter or the boxer – both wait with their body weight on the back foot before swinging the bat or delivering a punch. Too often players pay too much attention to grips, swings, and spin without ...…
“You are only as good as your second serve.” I know, I do write about this quite a lot, but I believe it – and in nearly every instance the statistics of the professional matches support the idea. The match winner always wins more points on their second serve, and the match loser will always ...…
Top of the Bounce – Playing from above the net. Watch the professional players who are adept at moving inside the baseline to finish the point. They will invariably make contact when the ball is well above the net, if not the absolute apex of the bounce. And at this height (which is nearly always ...…
Tennis is a game of “UP.” Suzanne Lenglen, French world champion in the 1920′s, was trained by her father. And the story goes that they would have a tennis outing to a park in Paris, but, and this is an important but – they would play as long as she did not hit a single ...…
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