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In the first two days of this year’s Australian Open in Melbourne, temperatures have already soared into the high-90s. Heat is always a factor at the first Slam of the year, and especially in recent memory. In 2014 and 2015, temperatures during play approached, and sometimes surpassed, 110 degrees, forcing them to change their extreme…
Hey guys, Scott from PlayYourCourt.com, and today, I’m going to teach you how to battle your nerves on the tennis court. So a lot of you have been asking me recently, “Scott, how do you deal with nervousness and how come the pros don’t ever seem nervous when they are playing matches?” Well the…
You’re in a tight match, and you made it to a tiebreaker. All the work you put in for the set comes down to a first-to-seven battle. You don’t want to let the set go to waste, so you have to find the balance of risk/reward to win the set and grab the momentum. Whether…
As is the case with most issues in your tennis game, your serve can be improved with very basic fixes. In this week’s tennis tip, we want to take a look at your ball toss, and give you a few simple tips and drills to make your ball toss repeatable, and your serve more consistent. …
Tennis is a very difficult, nuanced game. Most recreational players make very simple strategic mistakes, very regularly, leading to WAY more unforced errors than they need to be making. Here are the top 10 mistakes made on the tennis court, and quick fixes for all of them. 1. Trying to hit winners from behind the…
Serving in doubles is incredibly important, and is often overlooked in many recreational doubles matches. By serving well, and more importantly, serving smart, you will set you and your partner up to be on the offensive in the overwhelming majority of points, and that’s what doubles is all about. Here are a few simple tips…
Over the next few weeks, our tennis tips will focus on doubles. Check back each week for tips to help take your doubles game to the next level. Tennis is meant to be fun, and if you ask me, a great doubles match has the potential to be a lot more fun than a singles…
Hello tennis lovers! This week’s tip goes hand in hand with our last tip: Why Your Footwork is Killing Your Game. Hopefully you have started to implement our footwork tips, and today we want to take it a step further and make sure you are conserving energy, and in turn, being set for each shot…
Hey, Scott Baxter from PlayYourCourt.com here… And today I’m going to teach you a simple drill that will add 10 to 15 MPH to your forehand. So let’s dive right in. When we start to talk about how to generate more power on our groundstrokes, there’s a couple of things that we already know, and we hear…