Tennisnerd Academy

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 and angles on topics you might see elsewhere. From what I can see, there is not a lot of videos about the topic of shot selection online. Still, it’s the one …

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 basic tennis footwork tips, you can improve your intensity and movement quite a bit. Tennis Footwork tips ? Karl and I talk about the following concepts in the video: Keeping …

I created Tennisnerd as a way to collect everything I learn about tennis. It is not only about gear, far from it. Here is how I work on my tennis. I got into tennis gear because I noticed it made a difference in how I feel and play on the court. But I am not a collector of racquets, and I don’t think the racquet is everything. One of the most common things I tell people is to try to find a setup that works, commit to that, and focus on improving. This post deals with how I work on …

I am not only a racquet and string nerd. My main goal is always to work on my game. Here are 5 Tips to Improve Your Tennis. When you’re browsing through Tennisnerd.net, you might think I have an unhealthy obsession with racquets and strings. I do like to experiment and test new gear, but I always want to make sure I prioritize getting better as a tennis player. I have picked up a few things over the years that I summarize below. If you are interested in hearing more about how you could improve as a player without paying a …

One of the most common questions for tennis coaches is how to handle high balls. Especially on the often weaker backhand wing. This video deals with various approaches to dealing with high balls, both aggressive and defensive. We like to call it Moonballer Medicine. It might sound like a basic problem, but high balls on the backhand was one of the tools Nadal used to give Federer trouble for many years until Federer started taking the ball earlier with a more aggressive approach. His bigger head size racquet also helped to give him more margin of error. This video mainly …

The serve is arguably the most important shot in tennis and it is something that a lot of players struggle with. That is why we thought it was timely to release a new Tennisnerd Academy video called: How to Serve! The video deals with grip, stance, backswing, slice, flat and kick serve and is packed with tips. Tennisnerd Academy is a project I am doing together with my two tennis friends Vijay and Nikunj Siwach. The Siwach brothers are ex-professional tennis players and used to run their own academy in Germany. Now they live in Malta and work with the …