Employing effective strategy and tactics in a tennis match allows you to leverage your strengths against your opponent’s weaknesses to increase your chances of winning. The key is aligning your approach with your abilities. Types of Tennis Playing Styles Tennis players generally fall into one of four main playing style categories: Retriever Retrievers focus on…
Nutritional Tips for Tennis Players (Source: Advanced Techniques for Competitive Tennis by Richard Schönborn): Carbohydrates, serving as the fuel for a player’s muscles, should be consumed at a rate of 6 grams per kilogram of body weight daily. For example, a 60 kg player would require 360 grams of carbohydrates What to eat? -Starch, from…
Stretching is an essential part of looking after your body if you practice sports. It prevents injury, keeps the body subtle and flexible, and helps with good posture. Yoga helps to oxidize the internal organs; it positions the internal organs in the correct place and helps to elongate the muscles. The following routine can be…
The dink requires hitting a short ball flat or with underspin to keep it low, executed by both forehand and backhand. Skilled players use dinks to pin opponents behind the baseline in defensive positions. By brushing under the ball at sharp angles, underspin dinks frustrate attacking momentum. Mixing up direction and spin keeps rivals off…
This shot can be defensive or a deliberate strategy to give a change of dynamics with a lower bouncing ball that comes fast off the court surface. The grip is called Continental and is similar to a volley grip but with the fingers spread – shake hands style. When hitting slice shots, keep the wrist…
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A classic shot, in times past considered a standard backhand but now regarded as a variation shot. Although it may not win the point it will enable you to stay in the point and rally or negotiate further and look to use one of your attacking weapons. A ball hit with slice or underspin tends…
