Instruction: Learn and Improve Tennis Strokes and Strategies
Learn tennis through articles, free video lessons, tips, how-to, FAQs, and quizzes. Improve forehands, backhands, serves, volleys, overheads, and specialty shots. Develop better strategies for singles and doubles at any level, beginner through advanced.
- Serve (21)
- Forehand, Backhand (50)
- Volley, Overhead, Specialty (22)
- Strategy - Singles, Doubles (37)
- Drills, Practice, Games (24)
How Topspin Works in Tennis
How topspin affects a tennis ball's flight in the air and the height, steepness, and speed of its bounce.
Tennis Lessons from Other Sports
Lessons tennis players can learn from golf, baseball, field hockey, skiing, basketball, volleyball, badminton, soccer, and figure skating.
Index of Photo-Based Tennis Lessons
Free step-by-step tennis lessons using photos to illustrate tennis strokes, including serves, forehands, backhands, volleys, half volleys, drop shots, drop volleys, backhand overheads, topspin lobs, and grips.
Tennis Grips FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions About Tennis Grips
Answers to your questions about all of the different forehand and backhand grips and how they match up with specific strokes and spins.
Tennis Court Surfaces FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions About Tennis Court Surfaces
Learn more about the various court surfaces and which playing styles each favors.
Tennis Stroke Repair Central - Tips to Improve Your Forehand Backhand Overhead Serve Volley
Enter a specialty repair shop for each of the major tennis strokes. You'll find a wide range of fixes for specific symptoms of a stroke that needs adjustment.
Sports That Help Your Tennis
Other sports a tennis player should try.
Debunking Five Big Tennis Myths
If you're trying to snap your wrist, plant your feet, or stay down with the ball, you might have been misled by one of the popular tennis myths.
A Typology of Tennis Shots
Tennis shots defined and organized into families by the way in which they are struck. Hit a dump or a buggywhip lately?
Court Surfaces Quiz
Test your knowledge of the three main types of outdoor court surfaces.
Finding the Right Lessons for Kids
Which type of tennis lesson will my kid enjoy most? In which will he/she learn fastest?
Learn More from TV Tennis
How to improve your tennis by ignoring the ball.
Coaching Science Abstracts
Abstracts of articles intended mostly for coaches of elite athletes in various sports, not just tennis.
How to Shoot Video of Yourself to Improve Your Tennis
Learn how to film yourself playing tennis: shoot video of your match play and strokes to improve your game.