Archive of: Thinking Tennis

What do you think is the most important element of tennis that makes the ball consistently land IN on the other side of the net?

Is it unit turn or top spin or swinging low to high?

How about watching the ball or hitting well in front?

None of these actually.

Players who excel at tennis not only use ‘skilled’ tennis strokes or techniques, they usually play within a mental ‘competency level’ that often occurs at or near a subconscious level of thought.
In any sport, when a performer is playing or executing at superior levels of play, they are often quoted as playing ‘unconscious’ or ‘in the zone‘—a reference that they were operating at a level that required very little thought. I call this playing at one’s ‘competitive intuitiveness.’

Every junior tennis player needs to read this: Your ‪success‬ is determined in how you handle the ‘bad’ days

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Basic Singles Tactics