Tomaz, I have been exploring vision and tennis a bit lately as I don’t think I am tracking the ball as I should.

I know you have articles on the site concerning watching the ball, but they introduce a theory, but they don’t seem to give a practical progression to improve in this area.

My reading has included the following:

http://www.eyesontennis.net/

http://www.arete-sports.com/

My question is what merit do you think this work has?  How do you work with your students?

How to best approach integrating this into my game? (more…)

Are tennis retrievers driving you crazy? Learn how to get them out of their game and make them fear yours.

Everybody hates retrievers. They require a great amount of patience and skill to get even close to beating them.

In fact, you might be one yourself. If so, don’t feel bad.

A retriever’s style is just as good as any other, even if “it’s not even tennis” or “they have no skill whatsoever”.

At times, we have all just got the ball back in play to win a match.

But still, many people have no idea what to do when their opponents get every single ball back. What do you do? (more…)