tennis tips

Dear Competitive Tennis Players. Before I share these tips, for playing better in your matches. There is one thing that... I need to say. Which is... Of course, you want and need to develop an all-around matchplay game for competing at a high level. But. You need to focus on developing...

You guys know something. After coaching juniors for 28 years in Kansai and helping tons of low ranked players in Kobe move up in the ranking. The one thing that I have discovered is that... 90% of all competitive tennis players will be in and out of tennis slumps because they don't know what...

Since Wimbledon is going on right now. I thought this would be a good time to talk about how you can learn from watching the pros. The sad fact is that. Many tennis players watch a pro tennis match as a fan. "When they should be really watching it as a competitive tennis student trying to...

Attention all tennis students and junior players!! On those days when you can't find a partner to play with or when you come early to play and have to wait for your partner to come... Find a wall if you can and work on your GAME. It doesn't even have to be a tennis backboard. You can get...

I was watching some junior matches in Nara yesterday and it was so sad to see these junior players afraid to come into the net. All day. They were hitting short balls and then recovering back behind the baseline or missing their approach shots because they were going for too much on them...

Listen up competitive tennis players. Because. By the time you are finished reading this post. You will be ready to start dominating any opponent that you face in your matches. That is... "If you get the work in on what I am about to share with you and work the process daily". Okay, take...

Before we get into the information. I just want to say that. I'm not trying to sell anything here and I don't have to prove myself to anyone of your guys!! As I said before. I'm sharing my coaching philosophies with competitive tennis players that want to take their mental game to another...

In your tennis matches. Start recognizing patterns of play and then start coming up with own ways to neutralize those patterns during the match. By the way. "Never try the same tactics or patterns on an opponent who has beaten you before". I know. It sounds like a no-brainer right? But I...

I wanted to share this practice tip with you weekend warriors and junior players out there. If there is any stroke or pattern of play, that you haven't developed yet, that means you need to get in more reps during practice. I had a girl yesterday in Nara, tell me after a lost. "I practiced...

How well do you play tiebreaks? This is the one area of match play that I don't see enough juniors and adults tennis players working on. "They just play them without any tactics or thought and hope for the best." Well, that's isn't going to help them win on a more consistent basis. The thing...

The return of serve is one of the most important shots in the game, the other being the serve. So spend some extra time working on the both of these shots in practice. Here are a few things that can help you improve your returns. Be mentally ready. You shouldn't get ready to return a serve...

At the junior and the adult level of competition. We have a lot of pushers playing the game. You need to know how to play them and you need to know how to beat them. In this post. I'll cover both here today. First thing is this. Understand that pushers want you to get frustrated and start...

Any competitive tennis player can learn the mental game faster, by learning how to concentrate better during practice. The Champion players know that, "They win their matches in practice." The key to learning the mental game faster, is to focus on 1 thing at a time and never live or relive any...