To become better at something you need to challenge yourself and move outside your comfort zone (besides practice, practice, practice of course). You need to dare trying different shots and losing training matches you wouldn’t lose or lose as badly with your standard game plan. Let’s say you want to broaden your tennis game and introduce a new shot – let’s say the drop shot, then you need to make sure that you dare to play it in a match situation to gain confidence. If you’re a sore loser or hate losing also against your practice partner this can be …
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aggressive baseliner
Who You Are On The Tennis Court
written by Jonas Eriksson
Every tennis player has a playing style and personality on the court. We have weaknesses, strengths and patterns in our play. But sometimes we don’t know who we are, we know who we want to be and it’s not doing us many  favors on the tennis court. Let me explain. I have always pictured myself as an aggressive baseliner. I have a weaker backhand (but a decent backhand slice)  and a pretty big forehand and I try to get myself into hitting it as often as I can. This often leads me into over-hitting when I have the opportunity. I …
