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Strategy.

Strategy in tennis involves court positioning, shot selection, and match tactics. Learn serve-and-volley approaches, baseline tactics, and systems to outthink opponents.

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Strategy ·6 min · June 2026

Tennis Court Surfaces and Why Your Game Falls Apart When You Switch: A History-Backed Answer

You have probably noticed it without being able to name it. You play a clean, confident match on your home hard court on Tuesday, then turn up to a clay court on Saturday and feel like you have…

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Fundamentals ·6 min · June 2026

Tennis Court Surfaces and the 0.85 Number: What the Court Coefficient Actually Tells You

There is a single number that the International Tennis Federation uses to sort every tennis court in the world onto one scale, and most club players have never heard of it.

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Strategy ·9 min · June 2026

Break Point Definition: Why One Point Carries So Much Weight (And How to Play It)

You are down 30-40 on your own serve. You toss the ball, and somewhere between the toss and the contact a small committee convenes in your head and starts arguing.

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Strategy ·10 min · June 2026

The Tennis Books Worth Your Shelf Space: Where the Standard Advice Holds and Where It Breaks

The advice you'll hear in any clubhouse, forum thread, or coaching podcast is some version of this: if you want to get better through reading, start with the mental game, read the classics, and skip…

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Drills ·5 min · June 2026

The Approach Shot, Honestly: What Most Players Do Wrong on the Short Ball

There is a moment most club matches turn on, and most players misread it. A ball lands short — somewhere around the service line, sitting up at a friendly height — and the player facing it has roughly…

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Net Play ·5 min · June 2026

Approach Shot Fundamentals: When the Short Ball Is Worth Chasing

We charted one point during a club practice match last month and it explained more than the rest of the set.