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Serving is one of the two most important shots in a tennis match. Practicing your serve can be very challenging and is often overlooked and under practiced because of that. The muscles used to serve are very different from what is used on your groundstrokes, so it is important to do a proper warm up...
The tennis court is 27 feet wide in singles and 36 feet wide in doubles. If you can follow a few basic ideas, you can make the court feel much smaller for your opponent and allow yourself to cover the majority of the shots they will use against you. First, you have to realize that...
Most players spend a huge amount of their practice time hitting groundstrokes. It is very helpful to be able to hit three or four good shots in a row from the baseline. It also feels great when you hit a winner in a baseline rally. However, the majority of the points played at all levels...
It is human nature to try to fix a mistake when playing a tennis match. Obviously, you don’t want to hit three balls in a row into the net or out. The thing that most players don’t realize is that your mind and body are very good at making the proper adjustments after you make...
Modern tennis has definitely changed. Most players have honed their baseline game to the max. They can be consistent, aggressive, offensive, defensive, and everything in between. However, the serve and volley play can still be an important part of a winning formula. Many players are returning serve from way behind the baseline, some even right...
A ball hit high and deep in the court is an extremely difficult shot to deal with in tennis. There are three different options that will help you reply to this shot, and hopefully help you turn the point in your favor. If the ball is going very slow and doesn’t have much topspin on...
We lost an icon when Jim Loehr recently passed away. I was lucky enough to know Jim and have followed him since the 1970’s when he began working with Tim and Tom Gullikson. Dr. Loehr was the first person to use sports psychology on the professional tennis tour. He was able to get his players...
Tennis players like to think that they will walk out on the court and play the best they can possibly play in their upcoming match. The truth is, that rarely happens. Even the best players in the world have many matches where they underperform. However, the better the player is, the better they are at...
Many tennis coaches still focus on teaching their players how to hit ten plus balls in a row. The theory is that if a player can consistently do this, their opponents will make a lot of mistakes, resulting in a winning formula for the match. This may still be true if the players are not...
The standard doubles position used to be one player on or slightly behind the baseline when returning or serving, and the other player on the service line (receiver’s partner) or in the middle of the service box (server’s partner). This has changed somewhat because players are hitting the ball harder and with more spin, in...
