Singles Strategy

The Secret to Singles Recovery Positions

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Many of the singles players UC Berkeley Hall of Fame Coach Jan Brogan works with share a “glaring weakness,” one that she says has “nothing to do with their strokes.” In this week’s tip, Coach Brogan discusses singles recovery positions. Coach Brogan notes that after being pulled out wide, many players automatically return to the   More >

Game Style as Tennis Strategy

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In order to have good tennis singles strategies, you need to know what your game style is and then perfect it. The best tennis strategy is to respect and utilize your own strengths! Your game style comes from both your shot selection and from your  personality. Each style has its own tennis singles tactics: 1.   More >

Tennis Singles Strategies – What Color Is Your Zone?

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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   More >

Key to the Singles Tennis Game: Footwork

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No matter how good your tennis strokes are, you won’t perform well if you don’t also know how to best position yourself on the court. In singles tennis, many of us expend way too much energy by trying to recover to the “T”, otherwise known as the center hash mark, after we hit the ball.   More >

Return of Serve Tennis: Add Consistency and Power

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One of my all-time, favorite shots in tennis is the return of serve. I love everything about the return of serve in tennis: the anticipation, visualizing exactly where I want to return the ball, focusing so intensely that once the ball is served there’s nothing in the world but me and my racquet’s point of   More >