This is a guest post by Tom who loves the game of tennis and is sharing his views on tennis on his blog tomthetennisblogger.blogspot.com/.

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My name is Tom Hutchinson and I am a 14 year old Tennis enthusiast who is hungry to gain knowledge in the art of Tennis.

My story starts when I am 11, when I first got exposed to tennis. At this time I was a keen long distance runner and had an interest in badminton.

Looking back now it was quite funny thinking that when I saw people playing tennis I would try and pick out how people were hitting the ball subconsciously. Back then though I thought that Badminton was the best racket sport.

Gradually after many times at lunch looking over the tennis courts at my local sports centre I decided I wanted to learn a little bit more about the sport.

The first time I really watched Tennis was the Australian Open in 2008. Ever since that tournament I have been a tennis addict and a huge enthusiast for the sport. (more…)

I’ve recently come across 3 interesting articles which scientifically approach the game of tennis and how our brain and eyes work when playing the game.

The first study found out that “found that tennis players are often better than the rest of us at certain time-related, perceptual skills, such as speed discrimination.”

Which of course makes sense since tennis players have to constantly watch a fast moving ball and very quickly calculate the trajectory of its flight in order to make a good contact with the racquet.

There were seven different tests and skilled tennis players did really well on most of them compared to non-tennis participants. You can read the full article by following this link.

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Prof. Don Mueller is an expert on ambidextrous tennis and perhaps he can show you an alternative to your weak backhand. (besides many other benefits of playing two forehands)

I’ve had a few experiences with “double-forehand” tennis players in the past too.

I saw a couple of club players doing their best with ambidextrous tennis but later I met a well known writer Dan Millman through my friend Brent Zeller.

Dan told me, that he plays tennis ambidextrously and that there are not only physiological benefits of that but also mental. He said that playing two forehands “balances” his mind.

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The story of how I learned more about the non-competitive approach in tennis started in the summer of 2003, when Brent Zeller, a tennis coach from Marin County and author of www.effortlesstennis.com invited me to come over to USA and learn more about his method of teaching tennis.

I spent one month with Brent watching him teach tennis to juniors and adults in private and group lessons.

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