If you and just one other player want to practice serving, returning, volleying and hitting small targets… Crosscourt Doubles is a good game to play. Some people call it “Ghost Doubles” or “One-on-One Doubles,” but it is a game with just two people playing. Continue reading Crosscourt Doubles →

Why do so many of us miss our serves INTO the net? According to tennis pros Fred Drilling and Florian Meier, it is because we pull DOWN instead of hitting UP on the ball. Here’s a little practice technique to improve your serve. Continue reading How To Serve Deeper →

I believe it was famed Australian coach Harry Hopman — who tutored the likes of Roy Emerson, John Newcombe, Rod Laver, and others – who invented the Two-On-One Drills; which are some of my favorite workouts. Continue reading Two on One Drills →

Thanks to former tennis coach Gary Roberts (who just moved to Sunapee, New Hampshire), here is a fun game to liven up your practice sessions. Granted, it is a little complicated for scoring; but really emphasizes a variety of key stoke pointers. Continue reading A New Practice Drill →

Greetings from the eye of not-so-strong Hurricane Irene. It doesn’t look like there is much damage up here in the woods of New Hampshire (but we evacuated the lake and are staying in the next town of Newport; so I really don’t know). But yesterday, before the start of the storm, I think we invented a new tennis game. Continue reading The Storm and a New Game →

If you want to learn a new tennis stroke (or any new skill), there are four stages of learning that you need to go through. This concept is not new; but it is wonderfully insightful to the learning process. Continue reading Four Stages of Learning →

These exercises are designed to work the wrists, forearms, shoulders, and legs. I have broken them down into three different groups of six exercises in each session; and I try to do each session on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday. It doesn’t always work out that way; but at least that is the goal. Continue reading STRENGTH EXERCISES →

A critical phase of getting the body ready for tennis camp, tournaments, or just to excel on the tennis court is building strength — to improve the power in the muscles, but to also strengthen the “housing” around the key tennis joints. Several years ago, I had a physical trainer develop a series of weight training exercises to do specifically for tennis. Continue reading Tennis Exercise →

Do you have any idea what your strokes LOOK like? For years, a critical component to ALL pro

athlete training/improvement has been the use of video to help the individual “see” what needs to be corrected. Continue reading Using Video →

You’re returning serve in doubles and the server comes in behind his first serve and hits a deep volley back to you. Then what do you do? Continue reading Aggressive Doubles Baseline →