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Shadow Lawn, Garden Close Lane, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 6PP
For quickest reply please text me on 07497 744469
During a tennis lesson one of the important aspects I teach is consistency in tennis. So, what is consistency in tennis? Consistency is the basic principle of making one ball more over the net than your opponent, by doing so you win the point. There are many club players who adopt this tactic of being consistent, and at a club level consistency alone will win you most of your matches. Of course, at higher levels, power comes into the game as well.
Here are some tips to help you be more consistent. Firstly, footwork, if your feet are in the right position, you are more likely to have a better contact point on the tennis ball and therefore more likely to put the ball in. This is done by taking smaller adjustment steps as you get closer to the shot.
Another important thing to think about is the height of the ball over the net, many players have a low net skimming shot, far more errors are likely to occur this way. All that is needed to change to get more height over the net is the trajectory of your swing, so if you swing a little bit steeper, up the back of the ball, thereby causing the flight of the ball to be higher, this also puts spin into the ball, so once the ball has cleared the net the spin allows the ball to drop down into your opponent’s part of the court, rather than flying out.
One of the final things which helps with consistency is reducing power, it is always better to start slow then speed it up when you are more comfortable, remember still keep the same swing but just reduce the speed of the racket head.
Hope this helps. This is just some of the many things I coach during a tennis lesson. My tennis coaching adapts to the level of tennis you are currently playing and the level of tennis you want to achieve.
For this tennis coaching lesson, I am going to discuss using your body weight when hitting a tennis ball so as to increase both power and accuracy.
First of all, it is very important to know that in tennis we always want our body moving forwards or towards the direction of where we are hitting, so balance and weight transfer are a key part of beginner and performance tennis.
There are a number of ways to do this. Firstly, with the ground strokes we want to be sideways on to have the best balance, however the foot that is in front needs to be pointing forwards, if it is also pointing sideways your knee can only go to the side and not forwards. So, pointing the front foot forwards and leaning forwards with the front knee is key to transferring weight into the ground strokes.
Now, for the valleys, transferring weight forwards with the volley is a simple step forwards, however when we are getting up to the ball, we need to stop to maintain our balance then step through as opposed to running through the shot. To put it simply terms, run forwards, stop to gain balance, then one step forwards with the volley.
Last but not least, the most important shot of the game and the one completely in your control, the serve. Transferring wait for the serve is very simple, you need to have your body behind the ball, so with the ball toss you stretch your arm out in front and make sure that the ball is farther in front so that your body can fall through the shot and have your weight transferring into the court.
Every tennis coach should be teaching this.