Category: Tips
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Tip of the day: Simple speed drill
Do you frequently find the ball speeding past the end of your racket because you haven’t got into position quickly enough? Well, this incredibly simple drill can improve your ability to zoom off the mark and hit a pitch-perfect shot. For this drill, you will need: four coloured cones, two people and a racket (optional).…
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Tip of the day: Clock face lunge
If you struggle to maintain your balance on court and often end up cross-legged on the floor like Bambi, clock face lunges could be the answer to your prayers. As this excellent instructional video from Intosport shows, completing a range of different lunges (forwards, backwards and side) can improve your stability, agility, footwork and, most importantly, ability…
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Tip of the day: Volley footwork
It’s easy to approach the net for a volley and then quickly become lost, flailing as the ball zooms past out of your reach. As tennis coaches across the country have been telling their students since time immemorial, footwork is absolutely key to an effective volley and ensures that you’re in the right place at…
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Tip of the day: The approach shot
There’s nothing worse than doing the hard slog of laboriously setting up a winner, only to squander it with a misplaced or weak approach shot. In this excellent tutorial for Tennis Now, coach Blair Henley offers tactical and technical advice about how to pull off the perfect approach shot – and win the point. Or,…
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Tip of the day: Dynamic warm up
It may not be the most exciting part of playing tennis, or any sport for that matter, but warming up is absolutely key if you want to avoid those niggling aches and pains – or a more serious injury. “Well, duh, everyone knows that”, I hear you moan. However, many of us still fall into…
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Tip of the day: Improve your game in the gym
If you can’t get on the court as much as you’d like and use the gym to keep the pounds at bay, there are plenty of muscle exercises that can help you improve your tennis game. In this CNN video, World No.1 Angelique Kerber runs through a few basic techniques, such as sit-ups and planks,…
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Tip of the day: Half volley
Be it at the net or on the baseline, the half volley is a key shot when you’ve been surprised by the pace of the ball or are launching an attack. Let’s take an example. The first clip in the Federer supercut below shows the Swiss stretching David Ferrer with a wide, cross-court backhand before…
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Signature moves: The Murray lob
If you spend any time watching the cream of the tennis crop, you’ll be aware that certain players have developed signature moves, or “calling cards”, to gain an advantage over the opposition. From Andy Murray’s pitch-perfect lob to Justine Henin’s finessed volley and Ernests Gulbis’ “soaring eagle” forehand, in our weekly signature moves series we’ll…
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Tip of the day: Sidestep slalom
The sidestep is a key weapon in a tennis player’s armoury. It allows you to get into position quickly and efficiently without turning your back on the action. That said, it may seem relatively simple to master, but it’s also very easy to trip over your own feet and see the ball whizz past. To help,…
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10 gifts for tennis players
Be it Christmas or a birthday, the dreaded “gift panic” can easily set in. Well, never fear: here at Tennis Talent we’ve drawn together a list of ten perfect gifts for the tennis player in your life. Moreover, we’ve tried to find the affordable gadgets, gizmos and accessories they probably won’t have already – not…
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