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Strategies for Singles and Doubles
Learn better singles and doubles strategies through improved court positioning, shot selection, mental toughness, and offensive and defensive tactics.
Singles Maze
Try to weave your way through ten singles questions with as few steps as possible.
Doubles Maze
Try to weave your way through ten doubles questions with as few steps as possible.
Doubles Tactics Illustrated
An illustrated guide to doubles tactics in tennis, including the positioning and roles of the server, the receiver, and the partner of each.
Advanced Doubles Tactics Illustrated
An illustrated guide to advanced doubles tactics in tennis, including the positioning and roles of the server, the receiver, and the partner of each.
Is Your Court Positioning Worth a Million?
Test your knowledge of court positioning for singles and doubles.
Tennis Doubles FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions About Tennis Doubles
Answers to your questions about doubles positioning and strategy, including roles of the server, the receiver, and the partner of each.
Doubles Positioning of the Bryan Brothers: Photo Lesson
Lessons on doubles positioning illustrated by photos of brothers Bob and Mike Bryan, one of the top doubles teams in men's tennis.
Four Safe Ways to Be More Aggressive in 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.
Winning Singles Strategies at the Beginner Plus Level
How to win more matches at the beginner through early intermediate levels.
How to Beat a Two-Hander
Tactics that work well against two-handed backhands.
Attacking the One-Handed Backhand
Tactics that work well against one-handed backhands.
Top Five Doubles Tips for the Server
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.
Top Five Doubles Tips for the Receiver
The top five tips for the receiver in doubles, using placement, positioning, topspin, slice, and lobs to return serve more effectively.
Top Five Doubles Tips for the Server's Partner
The top five tips for the server's partner in doubles, including how to use positioning, poaching, fake poaching, and offensive and defensive volleys.
Top Five Doubles Tips for the Receiver's Partner
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.
Top Five Doubles Tips for Team Positioning
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 Beat Four Major Types of Tennis Opponent - Finding a Winning Strategy
How to find a winning strategy against dinkers, moon-ballers, power baseliners, and serve-and-volleyers.
How to Handle an All-Court Opponent in Tennis
Strategies and tactics you can use to defeat the most complete type of tennis opponent, the all-court player.
How to Handle The Spin Meister - Tennis Strategy and Tactics
How to find the right strategy and tactics against the heavy topspins, backspins, and sidespins of the spin meister tennis player.
Best Defensive Tennis Tactics
Proven tactics to toughen up your defensive tennis.
Five Mental Toughness Tips for Tennis Players
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.
Top Five Mistakes of Inexperienced Tennis Competitors
Learn to avoid these five common mistakes in tennis strategy and stroke selection.
Encourage Your Opponent's Unforced Errors in Tennis
Five tennis shots that tend to make your opponent miss when he thinks he shouldn't.
Five Great Shot Combinations
How to set yourself up for an easy winner using positioning and specific combinations of shot placement and spin.
Get Shorty
How to beat short players.
Gettin' Dirty: How to Win on Clay
Strokes and strategies that will improve your clay court results.
Pick on Someone Bigger Than You
How to beat tall players.
Playing in Cold Weather
How to make low temperatures work to your advantage in tennis.
Playing in the Wind
How to use the wind to your advantage in tennis.
Win More Matches in Boys' High School Tennis
How to beat the two main types of player you'll encounter in boys' high school tennis.
Win More Matches in Girls' 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.
Win With Consistency
How to play consistent tennis and win more matches.
How to Improve Your Match-Playing Skills
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.
Reader Responses on Best Mental Toughness Tips and Worst Mental Pitfa…
Tennis readers offer their best tips for improving mental toughness or describe their worst mental pitfalls in match play.
Operation Doubles
Smoothly written and well diagrammed instruction on doubles strategy and tactics.
Mental Equipment
Archive of articles on tennis psychology.
