My junior year of NCAA tennis thrust me into a crazy situation that unexpectedly produced the best doubles of my life... In this post and tomorrow's I'll unpack the top 6 lessons I learned from my experience. Practical mindset, tactics, and strategy insights that you can implement in your very next doubles match! First, a
Greetings and welcome to the Essential Tennis Blog! Thanks very much for coming by and checking out this article. If you find it helpful, make sure to also check out the Essential Tennis Podcast which is also weekly updated with helpful tennis instruction. Simply click the link on the right side of the page.This week's
Welcome everybody! Thanks for visiting the Essential Tennis Blog. Before we get started I just wanted to remind you all of the Essential Tennis Podcast which is available on the iTunes music store. This week I discuss singles strategy and hitting cross court, basic serve technique, and doubles positioning for the serving player. Simply click
Greetings Essential Tennis readers. Welcome as always. Just a quick note to remind you to check out the Essential Tennis Podcast available on the iTunes Music Store. If you enjoy my writing then I'm sure the audio will be helpful to you as well. On the podcast its my plan to make it listener oriented,
Greetings Essential Tennis blog readers. Welcome back for another article which I hope will help your tennis game. If you haven't already, check out the Essential Tennis podcast which is available for download on the Apple iTunes Music Store. There is a link on the right side of this page leading to the .xml file.Today
Today I'm going to write about the return of serve in your doubles play. If you don't play very much doubles then you should! I remember being a teenager just starting to become an overall competent tennis player and absolutely hating it, now I prefer a good doubles match to singles most of the time.
Hustle. There's few things that will give you an advantage like hustle will. Today I'm going to go over my thoughts on giving all the effort you can every time you step onto a tennis court, and changing your mental thoughts about running for the ball.Few things get to me more than a person who
In my teaching of both singles and doubles players I encourage my students to come to the net a great deal. I love the net personally, but if approached incorrectly this strategic move can become much more difficult that you bargained for. I will split up this article into three main parts: when to approach,
I took private lessons from only one professional growing up. I owe a great deal of my passion for tennis to him, as well as a most of my development as a player. During a lesson one day he explained to me the four stages of learning any physical skill, and it's stuck with me
Greetings Essential Tennis readers. I hope that you are finding these articles helpful and informative. If you ever have any questions or suggestions feel free to contact me at ian@essentialtennis.com.Several weeks ago I wrote about the importance of good contact. I daily remind my students that technique becomes almost irrelevant if the strings are not
