Technique & tactics

Stroke principles, body structure, timing and decision making in the rally.

• Tennis as a system of principles: structure, adaptation and control - Good tennis is not a collection of separate strokes but a system of principles: body structure, receiving and generating energy, reading the information in the ball and controlling the opponent's balance.
• Why We Lose Tennis Matches We Could Win: Lessons from Brad Gilbert - How to manage risk, recognise the tactics that work and rely on your strengths under pressure.
• Tennis serve biomechanics – how the body creates speed from the ground to the racket - The serve is not an arm movement but a kinetic chain from the ground to the racket. How the legs, hips, trunk and shoulder create and transfer speed, and why efficiency beats effort.

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