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Aug 17, 2010, No More Technique - How Conscious Thinking About Tennis Technique Hurts Your Game

There's a huge mistake that many club level tennis players make when they are starting to learn to play tennis or when they try to improve their tennis technique.

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Jul 22, 2010, When life gives your lemons make lemonade

When you have a gift or a natural talent you should use it. It's the same for tennis, though you might not be the best and you feel like giving up, don't.

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Jul 21, 2010, Improving Anticipation In Tennis

One of the key abilities of good tennis players is anticipation. It's an ability to predict with very high probability what the opponent will play.

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Jul 10, 2010, Right-hander learning to serve with left hand

I am 66 and due to injury have to now learn to play left handed after 60 years playing right. My 2 hand and 1 hand backhand is ok, my forehand isn't as

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Jul 10, 2010, A cloudy and frustrated mind

I recently played a big tournament which i have never been so frustrated in. i was waiting for the draw to come out, and when it did i was so excited.

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Jul 4, 2010, How to Play Under Pressure And What You Can Learn From Top Pros

While your ultimate goal when working on your mental tennis game is to not feel any pressure or to use certain sports psychology techniques to get rid of pressure, you'll inevitably end up playing some matches where you will still feel the pressure.

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Jun 30, 2010, Serving After Year's of Surfing

What an ongoing frustrating saga: Trying to improve my serve whilst having muscle bound shoulders. I have had to learn every trick in the book to make

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Jun 30, 2010, Being Hit By The Ball At Volley

Dear Tomaz, I have this fear of being hit on the face most of the times I come to the net. Mostly this happens when I am playing doubles. Please give

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Jun 19, 2010, Forhand shot behind me

Hey I've been playing a friend from school for a while and for the last couple weeks he has been making topspin forhands which land behind me to the right.

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Jun 15, 2010, Concern: How can I, exactly, increase the level of intensity during practice?

I understand what you mean by Practice as if you're playing a match and Play a match as if in practice... But how exactly can I increase the level of

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