Tennis

If you want to learn how to play tennis, or to improve your game, you will need to find some good tennis lessons to get you on your way. Even those who have been playing for years can benefit from tennis lessons, and you may not even know you need help with your game until you get it. As with any sport, there is always room to grow, and always ways to get better. Depending on where you live, you should be able to find affordable tennis lessons that will fit in with your busy schedule. You may also want to get lessons for your children to help them stay fit and strong.

If you have been playing for many years and feel like you need more than the average tennis lesson, see if any tennis professionals are in your area who offer lessons. These pros had to be born somewhere right? Odds are there is one near you, and they are teaching tennis. Don’t worry if there isn’t one though, there are many other places to get tennis lessons.
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As the internet turns to be a major form of information, some people even treat it like a teacher and learn things from it. But, do you think one can learn tennis online? Is it a good method or just a waste of time and money overall? Is learning tennis in this way really worth your efforts?

For the vast majority of people, the internet contains a wealth of valuable information. The problem lies in the fact that certain things cannot be taught or learnt online. For example, you can learn about scoring, terminology and even find tips on tennis but you are generally not going to find anything that allows you to learn tennis online from beginner’s skill level to advanced player. You are also not going to find anything that can replace the value of hiring a good quality instructor to help teach you.
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As a busy mother of two in my early 40s, I was not a very sporting person until I took up tennis a few months back. Now I’m totally in love with the game, and am improving every day. I would like to share with fellow beginner tennis players some thoughts on how to most enjoy their tennis:

1) Once you’ve decided to take tennis up, go for it with passion and enthusiasm. I have no regrets taking the sport up, as now I can play with my who family, and look forward to tennis sessions with much enthusiasm.
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Most people aren’t aware that choosing a tennis racquet is a lot more complex than one would imagine, which is why each racquet manufacturer produces a huge, varied range.

But it’s not just your game that can be adversely affected by your choice of racquet - it’s also possible to permanently injure yourself if you make the wrong buying decision. Hopefully, this article can give you at least a little guidance if you have no idea what to look for.
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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.
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The net attack is the heavy artillery of tennis. It is supposed to crush all defence. 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 at 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 obviate trouble by throwing the weight on the foot nearest to the ball and pushing it in the shot.
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Tennis psychology is nothing more than understanding the workings of your opponent’s mind, and gauging the effect of your own game on his mental viewpoint, and understanding the mental effects resulting from the various external causes on your own mind. You cannot be a successful psychologist of others without first understanding your own mental processes, you must study the effect on yourself of the same happening under different circumstances. You react differently in different moods and under different conditions. You must realize the effect on your game of the resulting irritation, pleasure, confusion, or whatever form your reaction takes. Does it increase your efficiency? If so, strive for it, but never give it to your opponent.

Does it deprive you of concentration? If so, either remove the cause, or if that is not possible strive to ignore it.
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Footwork is weight control. It is correct body position for strokes, and out of it all strokes should grow. In explaining the various forms of stroke and footwork I am writing as a right-hand player. Left-handers should simply reverse the feet.

Racquet grip is a very essential part of stroke, because a faulty grip will ruin the finest serving. It is a natural grip for a top forehand drive. It is inherently weak for the backhand, as the only natural shot is a chop stroke.
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Service is the opening gun of tennis. It is putting the ball in play. The old idea was that service should never be more than merely the beginning of a rally. With the rise of American tennis and the advent of Dwight Davis and Holcombe Ward, service took on a new significance. These two men originated what is now known as the American Twist delivery.

From a mere formality, service became a point winner. Slowly it gained in importance, until Maurice E. M’Loughlin, the wonderful “California Comet,” burst across the tennis sky with the first of those terrific cannon-ball deliveries that revolutionized the game, and caused the old-school players to send out hurry calls for a severe footfault rule or some way of stopping the threatened destruction of all ground strokes. M’Loughlin made service a great factor in the game. It remained for R. N. Williams to supply the antidote that has again put service in the normal position of mere importance, not omnipotence. Williams stood in on the delivery and took it on the rising bound.
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I trust this initial effort of mine in the world of letters will find a place among both novices and experts in the tennis world. I am striving to interest the student of the game by a somewhat prolonged discussion of match play, which I trust will shed a new light on the game.

May I turn to the novice at my opening and speak of certain matters which are second nature to the skilled player?
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