Tennis Footwork and Strokes

Today I want to tell you about tennis footwork and strokes. Getting in the correct stance and position is extremely important for your tennis strokes. You should anticipate where your opponent is about to hit the tennis ball so you have enough time to get there and setup properly for a good return shot. Remember to always shift your weight from your back foot to your front foot as you hit your tennis shot. For more information, please visit my site at: Real Tennis Unlimited


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Edward Pena is a tennis fanatic that loves to play tennis as often as he can. He runs an informational website to help tennis players improve their game. His sites offer free articles on tennis and other tennis products. To take advantage of all this cool stuff and more, be sure to check out Ed’s site at Tennis Guide

Your Tennis Serve is Very Important

In tennis, the serve is the one stroke where you have absolute control. Why not take advantage of this and put your opponent on the defensive from the beginning. A good serve not only lets you start the rally, it can put you in a good position to put away your opponents return shot. There are many different types of tennis serves that have been developed over the years. I will not cover all them in this blog. For more information on tennis serves and other strokes, please visit my site at: Real Tennis Unlimited.

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Edward Pena is a tennis fanatic that loves to play tennis as often as he can. He runs an informational website to help tennis players improve their game. His sites offer free articles on tennis and other tennis products. To take advantage of all this cool stuff and more, be sure to check out Ed’s site at Tennis Guide

The Psychology of Singles and Doubles in Tennis

Singles, the greatest strain in tennis, is the game for two players. It is in this phase of the game that the personal equation reaches its crest of importance. This is the game of individual effort, mental and physical.

A hard 5-set singles match is the greatest strain on the body and nervous system of any form of sport. Singles is a game of daring, dash, speed of foot and stroke. It is a game of chance far more than doubles. Since you have no partner dependent upon you, you can afford to risk error for the possibility of speedy victory. Much of what I wrote under match play is more for singles than doubles, yet let me call your attention to certain peculiarities of singles from the standpoint of the spectator.

A gallery enjoys personalities far more than styles. Singles brings two people into close and active relations that show the idiosyncrasies of each player far more acutely than doubles. The spectator is in the position of a man watching an insect under a microscope. He can analyze the inner workings.

The freedom of restraint felt on a singles court is in marked contrast to the need for team work in doubles. Go out for your shot in singles whenever there is a reasonable chance of getting it. Hit harder at all times in singles than in doubles, for you have more chance of scoring and can take more risk.

Singles is a game of the imagination, doubles a science of exact angles.

Doubles is four-handed tennis.

It is just as vital to play to your partner in tennis as in bridge. Every time you make a stroke you must do it with a definite plan to avoid putting your partner in trouble. The keynote of doubles success is team work; not individual brilliancy. There is a certain type of team work dependent wholly upon individual brilliancy. Where both players are in the same class, a team is as strong as its weakest player at any given time, for here it is even team work with an equal division of the court that should be the method of play. In the case of one strong player and one weaker player, the team is as good as the strong player can make it by protecting and defending the weaker. This pair should develop its team work on the individual brilliancy of the stronger player.

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Edward Pena is a tennis fanatic that loves to play tennis as often as he can. He runs an informational website to help tennis players improve their game. His sites offer free articles on tennis and other tennis products. To take advantage of all this cool stuff and more, be sure to check out Ed’s site at Tennis Guide

The Forehand Drive in Tennis

The forehand drive is the opening of every offensive play in tennis and should be most carefully studied. There are certain rules of footwork that apply to all shots. To reach a ball that is a short distance away, advance the foot that is away from the shot and thus swing into position to hit the ball. If a ball is too close to the body, retreat the foot closest to the shot and drop the weight back on it, thus, again, being in position for the stroke. When hurried, and it is not possible to change the foot position, throw the weight on the foot closest to the ball.

The receiver should always await the service facing the net, but once the serve is on the way to the tennis court, the receiver should at once attain the position to receive it with the body at right angles to the net.

The forehand drive in tennis is made up of one continuous swing of the racquet that, for the purpose of analysis, may be divided into three parts:

1. The portion of the swing behind the body, which determines the speed of the stroke.

2. That portion immediately in front of the body which determines the direction and the pace of the shot.

3. The portion beyond the body, comparable to the golfer's "follow through," determines spin, top or slice, imparted to the ball.

All drives should be topped. The slice shot is a totally different stroke.

To drive straight down the side-line, construct in theory a parallelogram with two sides made up of the side-line and your shoulders, and the two ends, the lines of your feet, which should, if extended, form the right angles with the side-lines. Meet the tennis ball at a point about 4 to 4 1/2 feet from the body immediately in front of the belt buckle, and shift the weight from the back to the front foot at the moment of striking the tennis ball. The swing of the tennis racquet should be flat and straight through. The racquet head should be on a line with the hand or, if anything, slightly in advance. The whole arm and the racquet should turn slightly over the ball as it leaves the racquet face and the stroke continues to the limit of the swing, thus imparting top spin to the ball.

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Edward Pena is a tennis fanatic that loves to play tennis as often as he can. He runs an informational website to help tennis players improve their game. His sites offer free articles on tennis and other tennis products. To take advantage of all this cool stuff and more, be sure to check out Ed’s site at Tennis Guide

Tennis Volley and Overhead Smash

The net attack is the best offensive strategy of tennis.
It is supposed to crush all defenses. As such it must be regarded as a
point-winning stroke at all times, no matter whether the shot is volley
or smash.

Once at the net hit from the point of the first opportunity given to get the
racquet squarely on the ball. All the laws of footwork explained for
the drive are theoretically the same in volleying. In practice you
seldom have time to change your feet to a set position, so you avoid
trouble by throwing the weight on the foot nearest to the ball and
pushing it in the shot.

Volleys
are of two classes: (1) the low volley, made from below the waist; and
(2) the high volley, from the waist to the head. Other classifications
are the two styles known as (1) the deep volley and (2) the stop
volley. All low volleys are blocked. High volleys may be either blocked
or hit. Volleys should never be stroked. There is no follow through on
a low volley and very little on a high one.

You
will hear much talk of "chop" volleys. A chop stroke is one where the
racquet travels from above the line of flight of the ball, down and
through it, and the angle made behind the racquet is greater than 45
degrees, and approach
90 degrees. Therefore I say that no volleys should be chopped, for the
tendency is to pop the ball up in the air. Slice volleys if you want
to, because these shots are made at a very small angle to the
flight-line of the ball, with the racquet face traveling almost along
its plane.

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About The Author

Edward Pena
is a tennis fanatic that loves to play tennis as often as he can. He
runs an informational website to help tennis players improve their
game. His sites offer free articles on tennis and other tennis
products. To take advantage of all this cool stuff and more, be sure to
check out Ed’s site at Tennis Guide

Tennis and the Psychology of Match Play

The first and most important point in match play is to know how to lose. Lose cheerfully, generously, and like a sportsman. This is the first great law of tennis, and the second is similar, to win modestly, cheerfully, generously, and like a sportsman.

The object of match play is to win, but no credit goes to a man who does not win fairly and squarely. A victory is a defeat if it is other than fair. Yet again I say to win is the object, and to do so, one should play to the last ounce of his strength, the last gasp of his breath, and the last scrap of his nerve. If you do so and lose, the better player won. If you do not, you have robbed your opponent of his right of beating your best. Be fair to both him and yourself.

Playing tennis is the important thing and in match play a good defeat is far more creditable than a hollow victory. Play tennis for the game's sake. Play it for the players you meet, the friends you make, and the pleasure you may give to the public by the hard working yet sporting game that is owed them by their presence at the match.

Many tennis players feel they owe the public nothing, and are granting a favor by playing. It is my belief that when the public so honors a player that they attend matches, that player is duty bound to give of his best, freely, willingly, and cheerfully, for only by so doing can he repay the honor paid him. The tennis star of today owes his public as much as the actor owes the audience, and only by meeting his obligations can tennis be retained in public favor. The players get their reward in the personal popularity they gain by their conscientious work.

There is another factor that is even stronger than this, that will always produce fine tennis in championship events. It is the competitive spirit that is the breath of life to every true sportsman: the desire to prove to himself that he can beat the best of the other man; the real regret that comes when he wins, and feels the loser was not at his best.

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Edward Pena is a tennis fanatic that loves to play tennis as often as he can. He runs an informational website to help tennis players improve their game. His sites offer free articles on tennis and other tennis products. To take advantage of all this cool stuff and more, be sure to check out Ed’s site at Tennis Guide

Tennis in Tucson Arizona

Playing tennis in Tucson Arizona can be a lot of fun. And the weather in Tucson is great for playing tennis all year round. I have joined a meetup group that plays tennis all over town at least 3 times per week. This has allowed me to play tennis every week so far.

Playing tennis is a great way to stay in shape as well as to meet many new friends. Each week I look forward to playing tennis and seeing my friends. Check out the meetup groups and join so you can come out and play some great tennis with us.


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Tennis Psychology

This week I am writing about tennis psychology. In the game of tennis, it is very important that you understand what kind of opponent you are playing. The quicker you can figure this out the quicker you will have your tennis game under control. Tennis is a mind game whether you realize it or not. If you can out think your tennis opponent, then you will have the edge. You can tell when someone is just mindlessly returning the tennis ball to you. There won't be any variation to the shots. The tennis ball will just come back over the net, down the middle, to the baseline. Once you see this, you should be able to take advantage of this and make your opponent to start moving around and making them uncomfortable. This strategy should help you start to win about 25% more of your tennis matches. Good luck on the tennis courts!

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Ed Pena is a tennis fanatic that loves to play tennis as often as he can. He runs an informational website to help tennis players improve their game. His sites offer free articles on tennis and other tennis products. To take advantage of all this cool stuff and more, be sure to check out Ed’s site at Tennis Guide

Tennis Strokes

I have added a new article on tennis strokes. This article includes the chop stroke, half volley and court position. In tennis, position is very important in order for you to be able to return your opponents shots effectively. The tennis strokes described in the article are intended to help you with your short game. In other words to bring your opponent to the tennis net or to give you the chance to take the net. There are several articles on tennis at the site. Please go and enjoy yourself and learn more about the game of tennis.

About The Author

Ed Pena is a tennis fanatic that loves to play tennis as often as he can. He runs an informational website to help tennis players improve their game. His sites offer free articles on tennis and other tennis products. To take advantage of all this cool stuff and more, be sure to check out Ed’s site at Tennis Guide

We Won a Close Tennis Match This Weekend!

Tennis is a great sport and when you win it is even greater! My partner and I found ourselves in a close tennis match this weekend, but we managed to win in two sets. After a good start, we won the first set 6-4. We were leading in the second set, but the other tennis team managed to tie us at 6-all. A tie breaker was up next. We got off to a slow start but managed to catch up and win. We closed out the second set at 7-6. This is one of our best tennis matches of the season.

About The Author Ed Pena is a tennis fanatic that loves to play tennis as often as he can. He runs an informational website to help tennis players improve their game. His sites offer free articles on tennis and other tennis products. To take advantage of all this cool stuff and more, be sure to check out Ed’s site at Tennis Guide

How to Win at Social Tennis

Do you find yourself losing at the club or league tennis matches all the time? I am going to give some simple tips on how to win your tennis matches more often. Winning is a matter of getting your head in the game and getting the ball back one more time than your opponent. This sounds very simplistic, but it is the truth. For this article, we will concentrate on playing doubles.

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How to Win at Social Tennis

Playing Tennis On Different Courts

While many are familiar with the basic aspects of the game of tennis, few realize exactly how much difference a type of course can have on their game. In this article, we'll help you learn to identify the differences of different playing surfaces and allow you to be able to efficiently adjust your game to make up for the changes a court makes.


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Winning Tennis Tips - From Warm Up To Match Point

Tennis tip #1
When you start your warm up before the match you first need to get used to the conditions and your feel and form for that day. It's not realistic to expect that you'll be feeling superbly well every day.
So check the conditions - windy, sunny, hot or something else and adapt your shots and tactics accordingly. Then check your feel for the ball and racquet, your general mood and look to improve on them.

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Improve Your Tennis in One-Fifth of A Second!

How would you like to start playing vastly better tennis ... today?

There's a particular “magic” moment in tennis—one that lasts a mere fifth of a second. If you have (or can develop) the discipline to fully exploit that moment, you may astonish yourself and your opponents with your new-found scoring ability.

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10 Steps on Tennis Match Analysis

1. Quick head-to head comparison. There is no need to overestimate this factor IMO, but we can definately find "inconvenient" opponents, this can be very useful if two different class players are going to meet.

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10 Steps on Tennis Match Analysis

Tennis Leagues Are Fun and Healthy

Tennis leagues can be one of the best ways to improve your tennis game and stay healthy at the same time. Most tennis leagues will require you to play a match at least once per week and you should probably practice your tennis game at least one more time during the week.

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Welcome to Real Tennis Unlimited

The game of tennis most commonly played today has been adapted from a much earlier game called Court Tennis, Real Tennis, or Royal Tennis (depending on where you live). Modern tennis is played on a special court divided by a net, with a single player at each end (singles), or a team of two players at each end (doubles). Players use racquets to hit a ball back and forth, either on the full or after a single bounce. There are many sites listed in this category which can give you a better understanding of how the game is played.

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