Recently, I have read an online article about how a tennis player can improve his game. One of the recommendations was to practice with stronger players. Well, it is true that practising with stronger opponents will motivate you to keep up and play better and will probably raise your playing level, but the question is…

1. Play smart, don’t play hard Probably the best advice I can give to any beginner or intermediate player is not to play hard. Instead learn how to control the ball and to play without making mistakes. Too often I get to see players that are hitting the ball with all their power and the…

There are two types of tennis coaches: type 1 - for professional players or for aspiring professionals (for the junior competition players) and type 2 - for recreational players. They differ from each other based on what they teach and how they teach. If you are a professional player then a recreational coach will very…

Ideal tennis lesson is not created by a tennis coach, but mostly by the player himself. The coach is there to help the player, to provide necessary guidance, but the will and desire to improve needs to come from the player. The coach can show the player the best technique, the best drills, but if the…

First of all is it tennis racket or tennis racquet? As I just found out in the online dictionary the more correct and preferred writing form should be racket so I stick with that.  When considering buying a racket you should consider the following attributes – how good of a tennis player you are, the…

Hybrid stringing is a method of using different tennis strings for the main and for the cross strings on a tennis racket. This means that strings of different thickness or different material are used. The grandfather of the hybrid stringing method is considered to be Roger Federer who started using it a decade ago and made…