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The Advantages of Tennis: Study Better, Be Healthier, and Happier
There are countless outdoor activities and sports to choose from. All promise sunshine, fitness and social time. Tennis is one of the more popular outdoor sports that offers all-round fitness and health benefits for both body and mind. Playing tennis allows you to play in a variety of ways and burn between 450 and 600 […]
The Benefits of Playing Tennis
Several sports serve as great exercise and tennis is one of them as the players are always in constant motion. Here are a couple of reasons why playing tennis is beneficial. Tennis involves the physical, mental and emotional just like any other sport. To be a good tennis player, developing a positive mindset is very […]
Tennis Training with a Pro
Last night I uploaded a video called “Tennis Training with a Pro”. I was fortunate to join tennis player Karl Adrian Ringdal and his coach Luis Perez for a couple of training sessions and we did some drills that I thought could be interesting to share. It also highlights how hard you have to work […]
Tennisnerd Academy – Become a better tennis player
So here is something new! We introduce Tennisnerd Academy, a feature I will do together with tennis coaches and brothers Nik and Vijay Siwach who used to run their own academy in Germany and are now based in Malta. What tennis stroke or situation do you struggle with? Please comment and let us know! The […]
How Clay Courts Can Help British Tennis
Clay courts are a bit of a divider in the tennis world. We all know what Rafael Nadal thinks, but guys like Nick Kyrgios repeatedly bash the surface. If we look at it with it from the UK’s standpoint, Clay Court Services’ Peter Sutton explains how clay courts can help British tennis. It is obvious […]
Life after retirement for tennis players
The playing careers for tennis players are often short, with the average age of retirement around 27 years old. On top of that, average earnings are not as high as you would expect, reportedly around $300,000 career prize earnings, with many players earning less. What does life look like after retirement? Andy Murray Unlikely […]
DATA SET POINTS: Should top players add a data analyst to their team?
I am happy to publish a guest post from Cyrus Sethna and Nihal Daswani who were participants at the Australian Open “AO to AI Hackathon”. It deals with how data affects and can affect tennis in the future. The 80’s saw arguably some of the best years of tennis on record. Be it the epic […]
Can the Backhand Slice Be a Weapon?
The forehand is usually our most reliable wing and where we finish most of our points. This is not always the case of course, but a general rule. For many players the backhand is a huge weakness, how can we overcome this? Well, the obvious solution is to keep working on the backhand and that’s […]
Changing a stroke
I think it always make sense to work on your technique, but sometimes there are such big issues in your game that you need to change an entire stroke. Federer has not been in need of any dramatic changes, but constantly makes small tweaks to his game and has emerged in 2017 with a one-handed backhand that […]
The resurgence of the one-handed backhand
For a while it seemed on the verge of extinction. The game was moving towards faster and faster baseline rallies and the two-hander is an easier shot to take on the rise. Then Federer came, dominated and now we are in a situation where the one-handed backhanded seems to be thriving. Just looking at this year’s […]
