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Tennis Instruction: Tips on Playing Better Tennis
If I hear one more time that tennis is just a mental game, I’ll scream.
People who believe that tennis is half mental, hasn’t seen the Williams sisters serve or hit a forehand shot to the corner.
People that haven’t received a serve coming at them over 90 miles per hour, or played a match that took over 2 hours in 90 degree heat, are the people that believe tennis is just a mental game.
Don’t get me wrong…I believe that a tennis match can be lost because a player wasn’t mentally ready to handle the challenge. You need to learn to stay cool, be patient, and play your game, but if you “don’t got the goods” to play great tennis, your mental game won’t matter much.
In order to dominate your next match, you’ll want to focus on getting your “goods” to play better tennis.
The first place that you need to start is with getting in shape to play the game and then, learning how to make solid contact with the ball every time you strike, no matter what type of hit you’re making at any point in the game.
Let’s talk about getting in shape:
There’s nothing worse than watching a tennis player lose a game because they got winded. They were too tired to finish playing the game with strength until the end.
Actually, there’s nothing worse than being that player!
How do you think Agassi has won so many of his matches?
Yeah, he’s a hall-of-famer, but how many times did he have
to come back to win?
When you are exhausted, it’s hard to stay focused.
When you are exhausted, it’s hard to make solid contact with the ball.
When you are exhausted, it’s hard to get to the ball.
When you are exhausted, you don’t play the best game you can.
When you are exhausted, you can’t get in solid practices to get better and you end up practicing and perfecting your bad habits.
So, first things first, get in shape! Spend time everyday conditioning your body to handle the vigorous play of tennis.
That way, when it comes time to put your foot down and pull the best out of yourself, your leg doesn’t wobble and is able to stand strong and you’ll be able to play to the end.
Secondly, you want to focus on making good contact with the ball every time!
Being in shape will help you with getting to the spot on the court that best suits playing a set up or point scoring shot.
To learn how to make good contact with the ball, you simply need to work on good hand-eye coordination, you want a racket you can handle and feel comfortable with, and you need consistent repetitious perfect practice. After all, Perfect Practice Makes Perfect!
Good hand-eye coordination will help you hit the ball in the center of the racket every time. This will help you decrease unforced errors and will increase your return without any added effort.
Start with hitting basic forehand shots over and over from the same spot, and aiming it for a predetermined spot on the opposite side of the court.
Then, change the place from where you are hitting the ball from while still hitting the ball to the same predetermined place you where hitting to in the previous spot. Don’t be anxious to start hitting to a new spot. Be patient! Once you get consistent at making good contact and hitting your predetermined spot, pick a new place to hit the ball to.
The best scoring places on the court occur at sharp angles away from the center of the court. This means that the further and the faster the ball is moving away from the center of the court, the better chance you have of scoring.
To Your Immediate and Lasing Success,
Kenney Jr.
Director
P.S. Would you like to learn the secrets of playing better tennis.
Check out these cool instructional videos…
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