Fiend At Court

A few months ago, I heard an interesting personal productivity suggestion during a podcast. The guest described a remarkably simple system that had become part of his daily routine. He carried an index card throughout the day, using one side to record things he was grateful for and the other to jot down the things that annoyed him. At the end of the day, he reviewed the card...

Off-court training is a significant part of my tennis life. Because of that, I have a fairly legitimate small-footprint home gym. Regardless of how much tennis I play on any given day, I typically augment that with an hour or so in my gym. I frequently quip that one of the most important pieces of exercise equipment I own is a television, but that isn’t actually a joke. Scre...

I recently stumbled across Killer Doubles: Strategies and Tactics for Better Tennis in a used bookstore. This title was published in 2014, which gives the foreword by Bob and Mike Bryanan ironic context in the current moment. The now-retired men’s doubles icons point out that the overwhelming majority of tennis players experience the sport through doubles, not singl...

Last week, I promised a look back at an earlier version of Principle 12, foreshadowing that it has evolved significantly over the past 25 years. That topic is still coming.However, the direct comments on last Wednesday’s post were unusually lively. The discussion that followed raised an excellent point that deserves attention.

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Every Tuesday, this site looks at a training or technology concept that shapes how tennis is played. Over the past two weeks, we have explored the concept of five-minute movement breaks during the workday and the