Category Archives: Your Virtual Tennis Coach

Physical-Emotional-Pain-Tennis There isn’t much written material when you do a search for playing with physical/emotional pain in professional tennis. Physical That physical pain is a part of a professional tennis players career should be a given. That’s why I was … Continue reading →

Doping-Tennis It has been interesting to me to follow the conversation that is taking place on the tennis scene regarding doping and its prevalence in tennis. This conversation is taking place in other sports as well, including golf, but my … Continue reading →

Rules-Injured Player-Line-up You are the coach and your team is playing in a NCAA- DI dual in a year ending fight for the top position in your conference. Your number two player has an abdominal injury and you know if … Continue reading →

My Way or The Highway? There are three basic styles of teaching: 1. my way or the highway, 2. your way, 3. together. ‘My way or the highway’. We have all come in contact with a coach who teaches this … Continue reading →

Coaching-Integrity-Tennis Whether you are a professional, high school or college coach/player, integrity should be at the top of a coaches/players credentials. Reasons why integrity should  be first: Integrity means calling a ball in when it touches any part of the … Continue reading →

Style vs Basics What is the difference between style and basics. A basic is defined as: the essential facts or principles of a subject or skill. i.e. learning the                       … Continue reading →

Playing Tennis – Reaction Time Let’s talk about how reaction time influences the three basics. The three basics are: 1) racket back, 2) rotate your body to a sideways position to the incoming tennis ball, and 3) make contact (racket … Continue reading →

We have talked in cursory detail about; 1. racket preparation and 2. positioning your body in relation to the incoming ball. Basic number 3 is to make contact with the tennis ball to the side and front of your body … Continue reading →

Tennis basic number two is positioning your body to the incoming tennis ball. Leverage and weight shift are the two mechanics directly relating to this. To the beginning tennis player, young or old, it is difficult, for most, to understand the … Continue reading →

What are tennis basics? In any sport there are basic physical movements that are required to perform. That is what I am being specific about in this blog. Style I will deal with at another time. When playing what would … Continue reading →