Tennis tournament is an important experience for every player. Players practice on a daily basis not only to improve own skills but primarily to beat next rivals and put trophy on the shelf. There are many factors that have impact on player’s performance during the competition and one of them is related to actions performed […]

Coaches around the world try to get as much information as possible to construct perfect practice every time. They look for new studies, unique drills or methods used by experienced predecessors. Building a solid structure for every practice is a basic for any successful coach. We have to know how to divide given session to […]

All people take part in sport due to different reasons. Some play only for fun, some for social reasons and some people want to be the best in a particular activity. Tennis is not different and there are hundreds of reasons why people come to the courts. We, as coaches, can partly decide about interesting […]

Tennis is an individual sport. We can observe thousands of different forehand backswings, hundreds complex serve preparations and unusual relaxing habits between the points. These all scenes show us that tennis is not one-proper-way sport. Tennis is dependent on so many unpredictable factors so that’s why we can be spectators of these versatile techniques. Every […]

It is a great experience to see Rafael Nadal or Serena Williams in action. During their matches here are many spectacular points that can teach us a lot of lessons. Rafael Nadal is known for his heavy topspin shots while Serena built her game on powerful forehands and backhands. We all admire these skills but […]

Tennis is a complex sport. To be a good player you need to possess skills like proper footwork, strokes’ technique, coordination and smart decision-making to name just a few. The good thing is that you can play tennis at different levels but whether you are recreational player or professional athlete you will definitely need one skill […]

All coaches know different methods to teach little kids how to play tennis. From years, we teach in both ways: traditional or so called “modern”. I think term “modern” is not proper because mini-tennis was known and used many years ago. Right now, mini-tennis is more ordered and popular that’s why we think it is a new […]

The serve in modern tennis is a big weapon that all players try to use with high effectiveness. Especially on ATP Tour top male players are rarely broken because good combination of power and precision gives them huge advantage over the rival who tries to return. However missing 1st serve shouldn’t mean that server can’t […]

Tennis is a game of mistakes. Most of the matches are finished with more mistakes than winners. Looking at today’s tennis, we can say that it is a game of power. It is not surprising that playing hard is risky and mistakes come up. However, we have to remember that mistakes are natural while being […]

Naomi Osaka, Petra Kvitova and Novak Djokovic send good examples for young athletes that everything lies in your hands. Offensive approach of those mentioned players shows clearly that being aggressive is the priority to become a successful tennis competitor. As we know, during the tennis match, we can find ourselves in one of 3 different […]

Serve, forehand and backhand. These 3 strokes players practice the most. It is true that serve, forehand and backhand happen almost in every point but players have to keep in mind that learning other skills is also important to play effectively and achieve good results during the tournament. One of the abilities that has to […]

Nowadays tennis is all about big serves, and powerful forehands. When we watch ATP Tour most of the rallies are finished with the good delivery or by hitting a clear winner/forcing shot from the forehand side. Females’ bodies are not as strong as males are but they still have decent speed of the first serve […]

Tennis is a sport like any other where coaches strive to develop players. They spend many hours analyzing player’s strengths and weaknesses. They customize day-to-day practice to meet individual demands. They use and create new drills to help players improve their game. Coaches also travel with players to tournaments to see results of everyday hard […]

When we play a tennis match we always want to beat the rival. The basic strategy that is used at all levels of play is to use own strengths against opponent’s weaknesses to get advantage during the point. This strategy allows us to put a lot of pressure on the rival what should lead to […]

Modern tennis is based on sheer power. Players strive for playing like their idols. They try to play aggressive from baseline and if they get short ball, the only idea is to ‘’rip it’’. Players can’t be blamed because they see the same solutions on TV. Most of the pro competitors punish short balls in the […]

Modern tennis is definitely based on offensive solutions. Players like Nadal, Federer, Osaka or Williams look for any opportunity to put pressure on the opponent and hit winning shots. Big serves, offensive returns and powerful groundstrokes are hallmarks of today’s competition but players have to remember that when on player is in offensive mode the […]