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Common Coaching Problems - Getting Too Close to the Ball 
Experienced coaches will confront the same problems with developing players the world over. This series of articles seek to identify those "common coaching problems" and then present practical drills and solutions for coaches to use in helping their players overcome the inevitable hurdles of learning tennis.This month's article looks at the problem young beginners who have trouble percieving how far away from the ball they need to be to execute their stroke....read more>>>
Are You About to Take Your Junior Team to a Tournament? Then You Must Read This Article to Ensure That You are 100% Ready for What Will and May Occur!
By David Horne
One key aspect about coaching a junior team is travelling to local or far away tournaments with your junior players. Often you will be responsible for taking, coaching and looking after these players when you go on a road trip...more>>
'Watch The Ball!'
By Todd Scott - Tennis Fitness Expert
If you're anything like me, you may have thought to yourself: I AM WATCHING THE BALL, what else can I do...? According to a few statistics, there's a lot you can do.... And it only takes a fraction of a second. These few statistics to show how vital it is that the eye must be kept on the ball UNTIL THE MOMENT OF STRIKING IT. About 85% of the points in tennis are errors, and the remaining 15% are earned points. As the standard of play rises the percentage of errors drops until, in the average high-class tournament match, 60% are errors and 40% cracker-jack-shots. Click here to read this article>>
Break these Common Tennis Coaching Habits and Break the Monotony of Your Lessons!
At various times throughout our tennis coaching careers we have all probably been guilty of falling into using the same lesson plan over and over again without realizing that our clients are getting bored with the same drills. As a tennis coach, you must continuously strive to add variety to your workouts by providing new drills, new warm-ups, physical conditioning exercises, lesson themes and so on. It is very easy not to plan a lesson and just go out there without a lesson plan and "Wing it" by making up drills as you go. This can be a common trap for many coaches who coach long hours. Read full article>>
Returning 2nd Serves in Tennis
“THE RETURN OF SERVE” is the most under practiced and under valued shot in the game. This article concentrates on returning 2nd serves, emphasising that once you have earned the right to face a second serve by causing your opponent to fault on the first it is time to ramp up the pressure on the server. ...Read tennis article >>>
How Tennis Racquets Can Improve Your Game
By Rufus Keown
Tennis racquet technology is the parent of the modern game. Watch any old footage and you will see the enormous differences in the game; play with an old wooden racquet and you will appreciate why the game was so much slower and played with such a different style....Read how modern tennis racquet technology can send your game into hyper drive >>>
Symptoms and Diagnosing Tennis Elbow
The term Tennis elbow is medically known as lateral epicondylitis. It is an inflammation of the tendons that attach the forearm to the arm bone, the usual stress point is around the elbow, and hence the term tennis elbow. What exactly causes tennis elbow, is still completely not understood, some people believe that the reason is the frequent wear and tear of the elbow joints, others believe that the muscles that are responsible for the cocking the wrist back are to blame (this group of muscles is also called the extensor carpi radialis brevis).However there is a very good understanding of the way tennis elbow can be controlled, and also what steps can be taken to reduce the pain experienced by people who are suffering from tennis elbow pain......Read full article>>>>