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This week we will focus on tennis footwork and shadow stroke drills to help players refine their coordination and contact moves. Here are great warm up drills for maintaining balance and coordination:

In this lesson, I discuss the forehand Slice which is a required skill for defending and changing the pace and trajectory of the ball and its also useful for returning serve. Grip: index knuckle at 1:00pm Stance: neutral, less common-semi-open and closed

In this session, we will learn the basics of the two hand backhand. For right handed players, the right index knuckle is on the 1 o’clock position and the left index knuckle is on the 9pm position. The right hand is on the bottom of the handle and left hand on top. The stroke followsContinue reading “Tennis Backhand-two hand basics and wall rally”

The two hand forehand is fundamentally very similar to a proper single hand forehand respective to the mechanical motions. Learning and playing tennis two handed can eliminate many of the technical flaws that players develop. There are many advantages of learning and playing double handed and the transition to single handed can be pretty easyContinue reading “Two Hand Tennis Forehand – Basics”

A jump rope is required equipment for tennis players, and arguably a jump rope should be purchased before your first tennis racquet. This drill, while challenging, is the gold standard for tennis players and it should be performed on a weekly basis for pre-training warm up. Here are the routines: Twisting-Split; Bouncing-split; Ready steps-split; One-Two-Split;Continue reading “Tennis Split Step Jump Rope Drill”

One of the best tennis fitness benchmark tests for junior players is the spider drill. At a minimum, this test should be done yearly, however I recommend seasonally or 3 times per year. The drill is very simple and is done on a tennis court. You place five balls at the intersection of the 3Continue reading “Tennis Fitness Benchmark Test- Spider Drill”

In today’s video we’re going to learn how to use use a defensive footwork pattern pattern at home on the garage door.

Tennis development is a journey and if you look at many great professional players, you will find that a parent coach was often involved in the development. Parents always have a role in tennis development and the conventional wisdom is the parent should only serve a support function. I disagree with this mindset. Parents shouldContinue reading “Parent Coaching”

The Tennis Development Innovation camps are a fun way to learn tennis and meet other players. We incorporate tennis skills with other paddle sport games like SPEC tennis and Pickleball which allows the kids to learn the sports in more of an open skill manner. Our game based approaches get the kids playing the sportContinue reading “TDI Tennis Camps”

There is a fine line between over coaching and continuous improvement and fine tuning tennis skills. One of the biggest challenges in developing high performance tennis players, is the prioritization of technical skills. Even when players get to around 8 UTR, they are likely deficient in a lot of areas, relative to higher level players.Continue reading “Over Coaching or Fine Tuning?”