Mental Game

Tennis matches are the ultimate test of your skills as a tennis player.
Not only do you have to pull out all of the shots (serves, forehands, backhands, volleys)  you have been honing over the last few weeks, months, years………decades, but you also have to deal with what your opponent brings to the table…..the tennis court.
This is [...]

Tennis Tribe – The No 1 Tennis Gang
Yesterday I told you about the tennis analogy I gave my wife that turned the school fundraiser into a “success” & how you could use the very same analogy in your game.
If you remember, they had some spoon rests that weren’t selling. Quite simply I told her that they were a weak [...]

I played in a “friendly” singles match during the week…..I say friendly, there was a wager on it as normal but I’ll explain all that later on.
Anyway, I won the spin, served the first game and won the first point (15-love)…..and then went on to win the game without losing a point.  Nothing unusual there, we [...]

With the Olympics in full flow just a couple of miles from me I was wondering what your thoughts were so far as we head into the athletics (which for many people is what the Olympics is all about).
Anyway, I was wondering if you had realised that you were missing a trick if you were just sitting back & watching [...]

Andy Murray’s coach Ivan Lendl was one of my favourite players of all time.

He wasn’t liked by most people in the way that Federer & Nadal are liked by tennis fans but he changed the way the game was played without a doubt.

If there was no Lendl there would have been no Pete Sampras (whom he took under his wing) [...]