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 …
Coach Evan is back, talking about the volley warm-up. The volley is an often overlooked topic these days… What racquets are good for volleys? I would think most control racquets… The Volley Warm-Up by Evan Gaudreau “I didn’t realize there was that much to the volley,” a new student said. Daniel came from a tennis system that didn’t put much value into the volley, overheads, or serves, but the teaching …
Denis Shapovalov is a spectacular player with beautiful strokes. Now we can watch Shapovalov on TopCourt, the online learning platform. As soon as I saw that the Shapovalov on TopCourt videos were released, I checked them out. At the time of writing, I have just watched his forehand video (I’m most curious about the one-handed backhand to be honest), but I enjoyed the way he laid out the information and …
Coach and analyst Evan Gaudreau is back with an interesting post about box drills. Give them a try and let me know what you think. Ps. Check out Evan’s other content here. Ds. And support Tennisnerd and get more insightful articles and videos via my Patreon. Box Drills – by Evan Gaudreau Box Drills are important early on. They’re necessary for learning to hit to different areas. But here’s the …
Guest contributor Colan Surratt is back with an important piece about coaching simply but effectively. Simplicity usually wins the game! Coaching Simply but Effectively by Colan Surratt As a young tennis coach, I pushed myself to understand tactics, technique, string, racquets, shoes, and anything else tennis. Logically – or so I thought – that would make me a great coach. Boy, was I wrong! My students would come to each …
Evan Gaudreau is back with another piece. This time it’s not match analysis but his thoughts on the hitting warm-up. You can check out the podcast I did with Evan here. The hitting warm-up, by Evan Gaudreau Generally, in the hitting warm-up, I like a bigger take-back. My right hand is generally around head level. This is just personal preference. It makes the swing a bit longer, and I have …
The 2nd part of my mental tennis session with Filippo and Andrea from Mental Tennis is out on YouTube. It’s called “Tennis drives me crazy”. Tennis is a wonderful sport and I have great love and respect for it. But sometimes tennis drives me crazy. It can be extremely frustrating when things don’t go to plan and you play (what you perceive is) way beyond your level. So much so …
I’ve spent the past week in Marbella and besides work, tennis and meetings, I also had a mental tennis training session with Filippo and Andrea from Mental Tennis. This mental tennis training session was a follow-up to the mental training sessions over Zoom we had done over the past year. I had experienced great benefit from the sessions and felt I performed much better in match play over all with …
I’ve been waiting for some one-handed backhand instruction on the TopCourt platform so I was thrilled to see Grigor Dimitrov on TopCourt! I have enjoyed the TopCourt platform since I became a member a year or so ago, but as I mentioned in my TopCourt Review, there was no proper one-handed backhand player on the platform. That’s why I was excited about the news in my inbox this morning: Grigor …
I was fortunate enough to play on the beautiful grass courts of the Mercedes Cup last week. Here are some tips for grass court tennis. You will find a video about my experiencing playing grass court tennis below along with some tips for grass court tennis. For a while, it looked like grass-court tennis was on the verge of becoming extinct, except for Wimbledon and some classic tournaments like Halle …
