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Training.

Tennis training methods improve serve speed, footwork, and court positioning through drills and conditioning protocols reviewed here.

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Coaching ·7 min · August 2026

Reflective Practice for Emerging Players: Does Writing It Down Actually Make You Better?

You added a third session a week. You booked the ball-machine time. You are hitting more balls this year than last, and your results have not moved.

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Training ·7 min · August 2026

Habit stacking works, but not for the reason the productivity books give

Habit stacking usually arrives with a number attached: 21 days. That number traces back to Maxwell Maltz, a plastic surgeon who wrote in 1960 that his patients seemed to need about three weeks to stop…

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Training ·9 min · August 2026

Tennis Training Exercises for Players Who Are Losing a Step

Reviewer's note. Tuesday night, kitchen floor, phone timer. I stood on my right leg with my eyes closed and lasted twenty-two seconds before I had to grab the counter. Left leg: nine.

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Training ·7 min · July 2026

Desk Workouts and Lower Body Strength: What Five Minutes an Hour Can and Can't Do for Your Legs

Search desk workouts for tennis and the same promise comes back in a hundred different fonts: five minutes between meetings, and your legs stay court-ready.

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Equipment ·6 min · June 2026

Tennis Ball Machines: What We Learned After Charging, Lugging, and Drilling With a Mid-Range Battery Unit

On a Saturday in March we took a mid-range battery-powered ball machine to a public hard court, fully charged the night before, and counted feeds.

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Training ·10 min · June 2026

Tennis Drills Versus a Membership Platform: Where the "10,000 Reps" Idea Actually Came From

There is a number that shows up, in slightly different costumes, in nearly every pitch for a tennis membership platform: hit a shot ten thousand times and it becomes automatic.