How the Slice Serve Helps Aging or Injured Shoulders
Why the Slice Serve Becomes Your Best Friend as You Age As the years add up—or after decades of competitive play—our bodies start to speak up.The shoulders, in particular, often […]
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Out of the Doldrums
Out of the Doldrums: Stefanos Tsitsipas Every tennis player knows the feeling. Your game flattens. Your motivation dips. Shots that once sang off your strings now thud into the net.You’ve […]
How to Return When Under Extreme Pressure
How to Handle Extreme Pressure When Returning Question: You recently wrote about changeover psychology strategies, but how should a player handle the mental pressure of receiving at 9/10 in a […]
The Science Behind the Quiet Eye
The Science Behind the Quiet Eye: Focus, Performance, and Precision For years, I’ve taught players two core principles to improve how they track the ball: Use soft eyes to stay […]
When Joints Fail: Understanding the Rise of Knee and Hip Replacements
When Knees and Hips Give Out The article “Walking on jagged gravel’: When knees, hips give up” that appeared in the SMH recently explored the rising prevalence and complexity of joint replacements, […]
Listen to Your Body
What It Really Means If You’re Sore After Tennis There’s a common myth in the tennis world: if you’re not sore after training, you didn’t work hard enough. But that […]
How to Serve When Under Extreme Pressure
How to Handle Extreme Pressure When Serving The Challenge: Serving Under Pressure Question: You recently wrote about changeover psychology strategies, but how should a player handle the mental pressure of […]
Why Doubles Isn’t Optional for Developing Tennis Players
The Power of Doubles in Player Development: A Case Study with Mirra Andreeva In an era where rising young pross often sideline doubles to chase individual rankings, 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva offers […]
Tennis 4 Life: The Journey That Shapes Us
Tennis 4 Life — The Struggle to Become Ourselves After reading David Brooks’ New York Times essay, “A Surprising Route to the Best Life Possible,” I found myself reflecting on […]
Badge Parking in Manly
🎾 Badge Parking in Manly – What You Need to Know If you’re playing Badge in Manly, here’s everything you need to know about parking before your match. Manly is […]
Alexandra Eala
Eala: An Inevitable Breakthrough Alexandra Eala’s remarkable performance at the 2025 Miami Open should not be dismissed as a an isolated breakthrough. Rather, it stands as a defining moment in […]
The Strange Science of Recovery
In Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery, science journalist Christie Aschwanden explores the fast-growing world of athletic recovery. […]
Learning from the Lows: Alcaraz on Match Dips
Match Troughs: What Alcaraz Teaches Us Tennis isn’t just a test of strokes and stamina—it’s a rollercoaster of momentum. Even the world’s best aren’t immune. Carlos Alcaraz, a Grand Slam […]
Self-Talk: Lessons from Jack Draper’s Turnaround
Talk Yourself to Victory: Lessons from Jack Draper’s Indian Wells Turnaround At Indian Wells two weeks ago, Jack Draper showed us something more powerful than a killer forehand: the right […]
Game, Set, Assist – The Unsung Side of Doubles
Game, Set, Assist: The Hidden Art of Great Doubles Partners In basketball, the assist is celebrated as a cornerstone of teamwork. It’s tracked, analyzed, and replayed. Yet in doubles tennis, […]
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