Glam Slam Tennis

You may not have the fastest serve in tennis, but you may be rushing your service motion in an attempt to be ready for the next shot. In tennis, best serves are not rushed; they are fully completed before you turn your attention to the next ball coming toward you. Here is a simple way to use footwork to improve your serve. Tennis footwork for success! A lot of people are anxious during their service motion, because they are anticipating what kind of ball will be returned to them. As a consequenc...

Who gets the Tennis Best Serve Award among the people you play with? Chances are it is the person with the best ball toss. Of all the techniques for tennis, your ball toss technique should take priority as you improve your game. In order to break the toss down into simple parts, I’m going to begin today with the first tennis tip for your toss – how to hold the ball. To start with, if you are holding the ball with your whole hand, stop; you should hold the ball only with your first t...

One of the best tennis singles strategies is to play high-percentage tennis. Sounds easy, right? Of all the techniques for tennis, knowing where you are on the court, and what the highest percentage shots from that position are, is one of the best. If we assign colors to certain zones on the court, it will help us remember what our highest percentage shots are from each color zone. So let’s think of the court as if it is a traffic light. Behind the baseline is RED, just in front of the bas...

Are there rules for doubles tennis? Besides the obvious ones – like hit the ball over the net, and inside the white lines – we seem to think there are other tennis doubles rules about where we need to position ourselves on the court. Those ‘rules’ have become so prevalent that they have taken on mythic status! Well we’re here to bust those myths, and in doing so, give you some valuable tennis doubles strategy to take out onto the court the next time you play. The tw...

We don’t often think that psychology plays a part in tennis. But if you are a tennis player, a good portion of your 300,000 thoughts a day are probably about tennis. And positive tennis head games are actually great mental and physical techniques for tennis! When you realize that every thought you have creates an electrochemical event in your body, you’ll realize that positive thinking will positively affect your physical performance on the court. When we play tennis head games with ...