Answers to your questions about tennis shoe types, materials, wear, repair, and more.

How to find a winning strategy against dinkers, moon-ballers, power baseliners, and serve-and-volleyers.

Tennis shots defined and organized into families by the way in which they are struck. Hit a dump or a buggywhip lately?

The basic scoring and procedures for playing a tennis match: the system of points, games, tie-breaks, sets, and matches explained for beginners.

A variation on platform tennis that gives great practice for full tennis groundstrokes.

Strategic uses and stroke techniques for the one-handed slice backhand.

How to make low temperatures work to your advantage in tennis.

How to choose and buy the right adult racquet.

Strokes and strategies that work well against two-handed backhands.

Test your knowledge of the sometimes subtle Code of Tennis with this fun, self-grading quiz.

Five tennis shots that tend to make your opponent miss when he thinks he shouldn't.

Strategies, strokes, and tactics that work well against one-handed backhands.

How to correct specific problems with your overhead smash in tennis.

Try to weave your way through ten singles strategy questions with as few steps as possible.

How to choose the right tennis racquet for a beginner, based on price, power, materials, weight, length, and balance.

How you and a weaker tennis opponent can both have fun and improve.