Every stroke has 3 basic – and obvious – parts. The Backswing, the acceleration, the follow-through. When you watch the top tennis players they look like they hit the ball effortlessly. They hit the ball so clean and crisp, might have large and smooth strokes. In this article I am going to talk about the [...]

To learn when to come to the net, imagine that the court is divided into three colors, like a traffic light. The zone that the ball lands in should determine your response. The back court is the red zone. Do not move in when the ball lands in this area. The middle part is the [...]

Okay, firstly, the strength to winning matches is the ability to hold your serve. Usually, a set is won by holding every service game, then breaking your opponent serve. When this is the case  wind the set 6-4. If you serve the first game, you must to break at 5-4. If you serve the setting [...]

Here is a challenge to everyone. The next time you are out on the tennis court try to take a step forward after you hit every volley. Why? There are two reasons. The first reason is that it gets you going forward while you are hitting your volley. It forces you to go out after [...]

Ok, the title is not entirely true – however the point is DO NOT think TOO much during the match. During the match is the time to EXECUTE everything that you have thought about before the match. What am I talking about?? Ok. Before a match you would have trained and practiced. You would have [...]

Make life easy for yourself and hit the ball on the rise. One of the challenges with tennis is that every ball we hit will come to us differently. Different height, speed, spin, distance from our body etc. Our challenge it to try and move ourselves into position to execute as close to the same [...]

As Early As Possible. Yes, go out after your volley. Do not wait for it to come to you. This does a few things. Firstly it gets you moving forward to the volley. With your body momentum going forward you will use your body weight as the main power in the volley. Most people who [...]

One of the most challenging parts of tennis is that nearly every ball is going to come to you differently. In most other sports there are not as many variables. This is one of the great parts about tennis, the challenge! Ok having said that, the shot with the LEAST number of variables is our [...]

During a match we tend to tighten up in pressure situations. Serving is where these pressures can mount up. Why? Well, we are expected to win our serve AND we are in control of when the point starts. (Here also lies the opportunity to become a very sold server – more about that another time) [...]

It happens all too often. Before we know it we are about to serve a second serve. What happened to the first one? Did we just throw it away? Is it because we have a second chance that we treat the first serve with less respect? We might just have a slap at it, go [...]