Strategies for Singles and Doubles

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

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

An illustrated guide to doubles tactics in tennis, including the positioning and roles of the server, the receiver, and the partner of each.

An illustrated guide to advanced doubles tactics in tennis, including the positioning and roles of the server, the receiver, and the partner of each.

Test your knowledge of court positioning for singles and doubles.

Answers to your questions about doubles positioning and strategy, including roles of the server, the receiver, and the partner of each.

Lessons on doubles positioning illustrated by photos of brothers Bob and Mike Bryan, one of the top doubles teams in men's tennis.

If you're not trying some of these tactics to make your tennis more aggressive, you're probably playing it so safe that you're at greater risk of losing.

How to win more matches at the beginner through early intermediate levels.

Tactics that work well against two-handed backhands.

Tactics that work well against one-handed backhands.

The top five tips for the server in doubles tennis, using kick, slice, placement, and serve-and-volley to make the receiver's job more difficult.

The top five tips for the receiver in doubles, using placement, positioning, topspin, slice, and lobs to return serve more effectively.

The top five tips for the server's partner in doubles, including how to use positioning, poaching, fake poaching, and offensive and defensive volleys.

The top five tips for the receiver's partner in doubles tennis, including how to use positioning and poaching to help win points when your team is returning serve.

The top five tips for team positioning in doubles tennis, including who should play the ad and deuce sides, how to exploit the opponents' positioning errors, and how to use alternative serving formations such as Australian.

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

Strategies and tactics you can use to defeat the most complete type of tennis opponent, the all-court player.

How to find the right strategy and tactics against the heavy topspins, backspins, and sidespins of the spin meister tennis player.

Proven tactics to toughen up your defensive tennis.

Get your mind to be a partner, not an extra opponent, on the tennis court. Here are five top tips to use in your mental toughness training.

Learn to avoid these five common mistakes in tennis strategy and stroke selection.

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

How to set yourself up for an easy winner using positioning and specific combinations of shot placement and spin.

How to beat short players.

Strokes and strategies that will improve your clay court results.

How to beat tall players.

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

How to use the wind to your advantage in tennis.

How to beat the two main types of player you'll encounter in boys' high school tennis.

How to beat the most common type of high school girls' tennis player, using a variety of strokes and tactics to take her out of her comfort zone.

How to play consistent tennis and win more matches.

How to improve your skill at playing and winning tennis matches by taking on stronger, weaker, and equal opponents with specific tactical and strategic goals in mind.

Tennis readers offer their best tips for improving mental toughness or describe their worst mental pitfalls in match play.

Smoothly written and well diagrammed instruction on doubles strategy and tactics.

Archive of articles on tennis psychology.