For decades, great coaching in tennis has been defined by clarity of instruction and precision of repetition. Clean technique. Efficient footwork. High-volume drilling. These principles built the foundation of modern player development and remain essential today. But as the game...
Welcome to the May issue of tennisplayer.net – all about the next big things in junior tennis. This is an...
Sliding on hard courts has become one of the defining movement skills of the modern game. Backed by emerging research...
A Nationals invite upends home life. Whether earned by ranking, selection, qualifying, or a midnight website refresh, everything intensifies: trips...
The Crisis of Coordination in Modern Coaching In modern junior development, we are witnessing a disturbing trend: the rise of what I call the “Fast Failure.” I see youngsters training with intense dedication—performing high-speed ladder drills and navigating complex cone...
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Discipline. That almost sounds like an old-fashioned word today, like something negative. Nowadays, everybody has to be politically correct, and...
Changing your perspective on competition can reduce stress. As we have seen, serious tennis matches involve fears of failure and...
On Court with Dr. Brian Gordon
March is a time to leave the cold of east coast winter behind and make a trek south to bask...
The goal when using mental imagery is to see and feel yourself playing tennis within your own mind, as if...
This new series of articles are thought experiments about the future of tennis--where the sport could be headed, at the...
In the first article in this series, we looked at the first two components of match play, Strategy and Game...
One of the best kept secrets of the successful junior tennis champion is the role of a knowledgeable, educated primary...