General conditioning programs have benefits in relation to improving your ability to play tennis. Most important, for the greatest amount of improvement in your playing, however, is to develop muscle strength and aerobic/anaerobic abilities in the same manner as they are used in playing tennis. In other words, your training should correspond to your playing skills, often known as dynamic correspondence.
In this way, the developed strength and cardiorespiratory abilities are functional, i.e., specific to the game of tennis. The physical abilities developed are used directly in execution of the game skills. To develop such strength, it is necessary to do what are known as specialized (dynamic correspondence) exercises...
