Coach Evan Gaudreau is back with a new article: Why box training can take you to the next level. Do you box train? Why box training can take you to the next level Can Box training take you to the next level? What’s the alternative? Hit more crosscourts and down the lines? Work on your volleys? Make your forehand bigger? Serve? And so on. Players from the Club level up to …
One of the most difficult things in tennis for intermediate players is beating pushers. But in this podcast we cover some strategies… Defeating a pusher, meaning a player that keeps getting the ball back, but not taken any initiative of his or her own and not trying to hit the ball hard, is difficult. All tennis players have lost to this type of players at least once in their playing …
I recorded a few lessons during my last trip to Marbella, Spain. Here is my serve lesson with coach Miguel. In this serve lesson, we’re breaking down the serve phase by phase, starting from the stance, then to the toss, over to the kinetic chain and the pronation at the end. We also talk about important parts of the serve. The rhytm, making sure you try to surprise your opponent, …
Since the fixing your forehand video was well received, we did one on the one-handed backhand. How to improve your one-handed backhand. The one-handed backhand Many club players, including myself, struggle with the one-handed backhand. It feels like a complicated stroke with many moving parts, but once you get some fundamentals down, it’s not that difficult to improve your one-handed backhand. But you need to be patient because if you’re …
Maybe your forehand isn’t broken. Perhaps it’s already a weapon. But there can be things to improve. We call it “Fix your forehand.” I wouldn’t be able to do this Fix your forehand video without the help of my friend and excellent tennis player, Nikki Roenn. Nikki used to be a professional tennis player and sometimes hits with a certain Novak Djokovic and other profile pro players when they’re in …
I’m trying to broaden the horizon of Tennisnerd a bit with some coaching content. This is how you improve your shot selection. Most coaching content online is focused on forehands and backhands and serves, but tennis is a huge area where you can get into depth on many different topics. There are also different points of view. What we’re trying to do with Tennisnerd is to find slightly alternative perspectives …
I’m doing some lessons together with coaches around the world. Here are some tennis footwork tips with Karl Adrian from Marbella. I have asked the community on YouTube, Instagram and my Patreon what kind of instructional material they would like to see. The first topic that my fellow tennis nerds requested was footwork. The footwork is the foundation of the game, but often overlooked by weekend warriors. Still, with some …
Coach Evan is back with a drill so you can work on your tennis this summer. It’s called Solo Box Training. There are a lot of coaches who “need” to hear their voices. Whether they are unsure of themselves or are projecting so that other people ten courts away can hear them. When you are “Solo Box Training”, it’s essential for the player to “feel” the swing. Rather than talk too …
Playing tennis for a living is a dream job for many sports fans. With millions on offer for the most successful players of the game, it’s an incredibly lucrative profession as well as a fulfilling one. What many tennis enthusiasts aren’t aware of is the blood, sweat and tears that goes into developing oneself into a tennis professional. Although some tennis analysts and pundits believe certain players were “born superstars”, …
Top ten player, Casper Ruud, has a monster of a forehand. Now he teaches it to us mere mortals via the learning platform TopCourt. Casper Ruud on TopCourt offer drills, strategy and an insight into how Ruud thinks on the tennis court. He talks about training at the Nadal academy and shows some interesting drills for building up your forehand. I have often called Ruud a Scandinavian version of David …
