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Tennis Instruction on the Net

• Ways to Grip the Tennis Racquet
• Racquet Grips Illustrated

Ground Strokes

• Take the Doubt out of your Ground Strokes
• How you can win with the backhand By Jana Novotna

Approach Shots

• 7 Hole Approach Shots
• Approach Shot Drill

Vollying

• Volleying the High Floater

Return of Serve

• Learn the Secrets of Agassi's Return
• Ball Speed and Your Return of Serve
• Return of Service Tactics
• How to Break Serve in Doubles

Serving

Effective serving involves:

Hitting the ball deep in the service box consistently.

Directing your serve to your opponent's forehand, backhand, and body.

Hitting flat, slice and topspin serves.

An effective second serve

• The Heavy Topspin Serve

• Serving Tactics

• Measure the Speed of your Serve

• How Fast is Your Serve?

Footwork

• Moving Footwork and Hitting Footwork
• The Split Step

Specialty Shots

• Mark Rothwell's Tips
• "Salute" for a More Potent Overhead

• Tennis Magazine's Top 25 Tennis Camps

• Tennis Camps for Doubles Instruction

• Hard-core Tennis Camps

Tennis Lessons

Are you truly getting the most out of your time and money?

If you are spending a lot of money on lessons, then doesn't it make sense that you use every single minute of a lesson effectively?

More

• The Rules of Tennis

• The Code of Tennis

• The Code of Tennis (USTA 1999)

• Cheating and   Gamesmanship

• Tennis Etiquette

• Glossary of Tennis Terms

• Tennisopedia

• Rate Your Game
  The USTA National Tennis Rating Program

• Tennis Court Dimensions

 Tip of the Week
Turn on Java to See Tennis Tips

Singles Strategy

• How to end the point: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
• Singles Tactics
• Creating a Tennis Game Plan

Doubles Strategy

• How Close Should I Stand to the Net?
  When playing doubles, how do you know where to stand in various situations?
• The "Single" Person's
  Guide to Doubles
• Doubles: The I - Formation
• Which Side Should You Play
• Playing Two vs One
• How to Break Serve in Doubles
• How to Choose the Right Partner
• Take a Free Trip to the Net
• Pete Collins' Tips
• Tennis Doubles Ideas
• Tennis Doubles Strategy

Adapting to Court Conditions

• How to Play Clay-court Smart on any Surface
• Playing in the Wind

Practice Techniques and Drills

• 15 Perfect Practice Drills
• How to Practice by Yourself
• SOLO Tennis
• Brad Gilbert's 90-minute Practice Session
• Mix Up Opponents to Improve Your Game
• The Woodies'
  Workout/Warm-up
• Get Real in Practice

The Mental Game:
a well thought out pre-match strategy, making rapid and accurate decisions under fire, adjusting as necessary, and staying calm and focused

• Embracing Challenge After Success
  In tennis, as in life, there are times when performance and effort subsides. This often occurs right after some success is realized. How do you avoid seeing a drop in performance following a success?
• Pre-Performance
  Routines
• Attentional Control
  In Tennis
• "Dirty" Tricks - When Everything Else Fails
• Creating a Game Plan
• How does Brad Gilbert Develop Andre's Tennis Strategy?
• Don't Make Decisions -  Recognize Situations
• The Art of Confidence
• The Essence of Imagery in Tennis
• Optimizing Arousal in Tennis
• Techniques for Improving Concentration
• Confidence

More Tennis Tips on the Net

• USTA Teaching Pros Share Tennis Tips
• Michael Chang's Tennis Tips
• Mark Rothwell Tennis Coaching

• Tennis Instruction Books
• Instructional Videos
• All Tennis Books

• Coaching Kid's Tennis
  Just because someone is a good tennis coach of juniors or professionals, does that make them a good coach of kids?

• United States Professional Tennis Association

• United States Professional Tennis Registry

• United States Tennis Association
  • Local Section

• Tennis Industry Magazine

• Coaching Science Abstracts
  Results of latest medical research are summarized for coaches.

• Books about Teaching Tennis

• Teaching Kids Tennis