mental game

Good or bad, we are not all created equal with similar amounts of tennis skills and even if we are someone else is physically more gifted.  Even if you can overcome that, you find someone else has better tennis mental strength………….and so the list goes on!
But, wait a minute.
Even before you start worrying about how you [...]

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 [...]

Well done to Andy Murray for his first Grand Slam win at the US Open in New York.
I can’t say I was surprised because as some people will testify, I did call the outcome before the tournament
As he stepped up to serve for the match I couldn’t help but think back to the times I saw him as [...]