Shrinking the court is a strategic adjustment you can make when your tennis game is a little bit off. It allows you to build confidence and raise the level of your play.  All tennis players have experienced the following: You aren't playing well and, as a result, you lose confidence in your shots. 

You may have great technique but without good tactics you won't win games. Find out about the tactical situations you'll find yourself in and how you can use your strengths to gain an advantage....

How to Transition from Offense to Defense

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Understanding the positive and negative aspects of the shot before is a good start to understanding how to play doubles. Understanding and realizing the point was lost due to the shot before will help reduce the your frustration level.
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In order to truly understand this next article, you should read the article I wrote about shot perception. Too often my students make the common mistake to gauge the effectiveness of their shot based on what it felt like hitting the ball versus how did their shot affect their opponents. Many players make the assumption that a hard hit ball is an offensive shot while a “blooper”, “dink”, “shank” or a ball hit with no pace is defensive. Learning to evaluate your shot based on the outcome and not what it looked like or felt like is the secret to understanding how to anticipate.  For more Doubles strategy tips join www.tennisoxygen.com

Welcome to session number six of The Tennis Psychology Podcast. Dr. Patrick Cohn at Sports Psychology for Tennis, is a mental game of tennis expert and helps tournament players, tennis coaches and parents improve confidence, focus, and compos...

In my first article, I was explained the basic technical components of the backhand slice. Now I would like to present the tactical application when executing this still wonderful and very effective shot in tennis!
I will describe four different scenarios, where any player who possesses a solid backhand slice, should try to use it :

Understand all of the benefits to hitting the ball Crosscourt. Crosscourt shots are the smarter shot click to find out why.

Ever watch a professional tennis match on TV, and wonder to yourself "why do they keep hitting the ball back to each other?". Often times you will see pros get into repetitive cross court court rallies. The reason is, each is waiting for an opportunity to hit down the line that would give them an advantage. Hitting cross court is safer, and they know it, so a smart player will often only hit cross court unless there's an opportunity that out weighs the risk.

This article could also be called "why some people learn better than others" or "is it the student fault or the teacher's?"

Oscar Wegner covers the dynamics of the four types of players including the defensive player, baseliner, skillful from back and serve and volley players

Bjorn Borg, Roger Federer , Pete Sampras and Ivan Lendl are players who never showed an inch of their emotions on court. (Sampras exception was in regards to his coach's death). Whether you celebrate a point with a showcase demonstration, or you show your disappointment at a point you lost, you are showing some weakness, some lack of control.

Coach Daniel Spatz explains two ways of utilizing an aggressive strategy and the elements needed to succeed at utilizing this tactic.

How to play...and try to win against that opponent who always beats us and complicates our game!

These are Coach Daniel Spatz 9 favorite tactical plays that will work with players of all levels.

In this article coach Daniel Spatz covers the best ways to use consistency as a strategy and outlines the elements needed for using the strategy successfully