How to Play Tennis Better: Powerful tennis tips for BEGINNERS

How to play tennis better is always the goal after you decide you like tennis. Once you put skin in the game and go deeper, tennis classes let you start hitting a lot of tennis balls. Having simple tennis tips for beginners helps when things start to overwhelm & paralyze you. You decided to play the game to get in better shape, meet more people & have more opportunities. You’re doing your due diligence watching video after YouTube video but don’t find much there for actual beginners. Even though the titles read, “for beginners”🧐. As you fall down the rabbit hole of YouTube “secrets”, nothing seems to work like it does for the coach. You’re trying to hit balls as cool & hard as they do but it hits the frame or finds the bottom of the net most times😡. Sure looks easy when they do it, but you’re struggling. HARD. My number #1 tennis tip for beginners is to take tennis classes. Tennis classes will make these tennis tips for beginners an easy reminder when you need them.

League Tennis: Do you have the nerve to play?

League tennis is THE perfect excuse to wear cute matchy-matchy outfits (if you’re into that sorta thing 😉)and get adult players out on court. If you’re a newer player, experienced, young or old, the more players the game has, the more opportunities you have. League tennis gives you a reason to play more tennis. Period. There’s zero excuse around age because it’s offered to over 18, over 40 and over 55. It gives you a reason to improve and put your tennis lessons to work. To play with more confidence, get invited to more socials, or travel with your teammates. And if competition was something you did in your youth, now you have a whole new reason to compete. League tennis gives you an opportunity to test your tennis chops - for real.

Tennis Strings: Beginners, have you popped yours yet? A beginner's guide to tennis strings

When I put myself in the shoes of a beginner tennis player my head spins. There’s a lot to break down, including the tennis strings in your racket. From how to play tennis to the gear involved, it’s impossible to keep things simple when you compare yourself to your favorite touring pro. While you may want to know what they play with or how they hit the ball, it’s overkill in the beginning and leads to frustration. Gear overwhelm will lead you into a financial mistake. If you’re learning to drive, do you need a Ferrari? Same idea. Keep tennis strings, simple. In this post I speak to tennis coach, Mark Sansait. Mark’s transparent & over the moon on his YouTube channel about tennis strings. Together we keep you aware of only what you need to know at the beginner stages around tennis strings. You’ll learn the basic lingo, find some great string options, and how to ultimately save money replacing your tennis strings. It’s a big deal to pop your 1st set of strings! A real badge of honor for a tennis player. From there it gets annoying & expensive if you’re not careful.

Is Tennis the Best Sport? Adults, prepare to be courted

If you already play tennis, you know tennis is the best sport for adults looking for an exciting & healthy way to grow older. If you’re a new player curiously lurking how to get started, prepare to be courted - hard! Adults looking for an athletic charge, a way to improve yourself & engage in friendly competition with other adults will agree, tennis is the best sport. THE sport that offers adults; movement, momentum, connections & longevity. 4 things that motivate adults on the road to a long, fun life. You don’t have to compete to enjoy tennis. It’s beauty are the ways the sport connects people, organically. The fact that it’s played year round helps maintain those connections. Adults can play the sport into old age. The added longevity tennis adds to an adults lifespan is the sweet spot. A game that’s ever evolving, just like you.

Adult Tennis Lessons: The little things that change your life

The cost of lessons, a certified coach, private lessons or group clinics you can find anywhere, in any country and I´ll show you where to look. The important thing is to get out and play. A new lifestyle is waiting. It’s fun, exciting and if you play your cards right, involves you in an action packed lifestyle. When adults come to play tennis in Mallorca on holiday, they always leave with new travel buddies in tow. Having had a great time with new international tennis friends that last a lifetime. Mallorca, Spain is destination travel at it’s finest. An island for active adults looking to improve their tennis games & explore a new side of themselves in a destination so beautiful, natural and welcoming they naturally change for the better.

How to Serve in Tennis: For a consistent & reliable serve {serving rules included}

So here you are learning to play tennis and you’ve reached the serve. You’ve heard ALL about the difficulties & importance of the serve. And it really IS an important tennis shot. What makes it difficult for beginners is using the continental grip. Most beginners try to pull a fast one & revert back to the forehand eastern grip. Don’t do it! You’ll put yourself in a straight jacket out the gate! If you use the wrong grip you’ll have zero variety, lack power and won’t have as much fun! Why? Because all the hype around how hard the serve is will come true. Build your beginner serve using the continental grip, simple progressions, a dose of patience, and you’ll be great!

If you’re going to play tennis with other people you’re going to have to serve. Put the idea of power aside for now and let’s get you comfortable building a consistent & reliable serve. {Serve rules included}

Single Tennis Holiday Mallorca: For the adventure lover in you

Itching for adventure in a new game? In a new place, with local sights and sounds different than yesterdays? Make a single tennis holiday in Mallorca Spain a complete adventure. And a great kickoff to adding a new sport to your life. You better believe it’s a bold move.♟

As the security of your usual lifestyle beckons you to stay put. You instead move towards the unknown, the unfamiliar, and the exciting! That solo carpet ride calling you, lures you straight into the arms of Mallorca, Spain. The best of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca is easy to get to. Safe for female travelers, and a destination for tennis lovers & travel. But this one’s for Beginners …

From Balls to Walls: Are Pádel and Pickleball the new game in town? Where does it leave Tennis??

As Covid hit the world FULL throttle and lingers into what seems like eternity. I came back to tennis vaccinated, boosted, ready to play TENNIS with adults. But I quickly noticed empty tennis courts in the USA. Worse yet, tennis courts were marked with more lines than a zebra’s coat to showcase, Pickleball! Adults were clamoring around tennis courts waiting for their turn to play. Doesn’t take an astute observer of humanity to see players engaged, smiling, bantering back & forth - all in good fun! I’d recently returned from Spain where Pádel had again grown leaps & bounds solidifying THE racket sport in Spain. But Pádel’s been ticking up for years.

As an adult tennis coach, I had to understand, “why not tennis”?

Tennis Etiquette: For beginner tennis players to blend in nicely

As a beginner tennis player you’re coming into a great game and knowing the in’s & outs of basic tennis etiquette will help you navigate newcomers waters. While no one expects anything from you as far as match play and learning the game. Players will most certainly expect you to know basic tennis etiquette. Not everyone will follow along but it sure would help. Basic common decency is still at large around the courts. I MOST CERTAINLY appreciate & follow these simple rules to ease player personalities, practice sessions and even water cooler talk. You and I both know it’s just easier to play nice.

Beginner Tennis: A five star forehand & quick fix when you're in trouble

Regardless the playing level, everyone playing tennis is out to have a good time. That rush happens fast when you hit your first beginner forehand on the sweet spot and it lands in the opposite court. That 1st time is like noooo other! YOU WILL come back for more. But to do it again you’ll need to improve your beginner forehand to get into your first tennis rally. I love teaching the forehand & fixing adults on day 1 of an adult camp. Sets a terrific tone & energy for players to quickly see improvements to the #1 fan favorite shot in tennis, the forehand.

The Right Racket for Beginner Tennis Players

To choose the right racket for adult beginner tennis players, here’s a couple pro tips to put YOU in the driver seat to make the right racket purchase. There’s an overwhelming amount of racket choices and it can all sound very technical and be an expensive mistake if you don’t study racket technology. Picking your best beginner racket comes down to how the racket feels in YOUR hand making contact with a ball.

Get the right racket from the start and you’ve scored a new love affair & saved money. I can’t tell you how many beginner players I introduce to intermediate rackets simply because they’re better made, use better materials and feels more like adulting. Players love their rackets. You will too.

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Is Tennis Hard? A little time and these 3 skills will crush your barrier to entry

When covid hit, tennis numbers grew - a little. People liked the safe distanced play of 78ft (23.77m) between baseline to baseline. They could be outside, breathing among other humans safely AND break a sweat. Just like the good-old days😏. But pickleball numbers between 2019 - 2020 soared 21.3% to incredible heights in the US. And Spain’s padel obsession grew even deeper. When I pressed both continents for the shift away from tennis towards these 2 games, it came back … “it’s easier”. As a Tennis Director, this concerns me. How many players can tennis afford to lose without picking up new participants? It became increasingly clear, we need to make tennis a viable sport for everyone. Not just top athletes or young kids. It needed to be taught thoughtfully with deep foundations in mind. So adults learned correctly so they could continue to improve and actually feel confident to actually play the game. Not only enter the game and pay for tennis lessons. People wanted to actually feel confident to play with others! The leading motivator being - able to play - with others - which is where the payoff happens. Having fun.

Recycled Tennis Balls: When you know more you do more {it’s a global thing}

Tennis players love time on court hitting tennis balls likely as hard as possible! They get smacked over and over again at tennis classes, private lessons, tennis holidays, & tournaments all around the world. The moment the bounce threatens your game out goes the durable trio to the trash can. When we should all be recycling tennis balls. This international game you love so much is taking a massive toll on the planet. Problem is, most don’t have a clue. And with all DIY’ers out there, this should be right up a tennis players alley. Lucky for us, some have already taken initiatives to make it easy for us to recycle court side. Will you help take this on?

The Perfect Beginner Forehand: Swing for the fences!

There’s 3 core strokes every beginner learning how to play tennis needs to learn with confidence. The tennis forehand, backhand and the serve. It's the forehand tennis stroke that’s really fun, gets adults hooked on the game and THE shot you’ll hit more than 70% of your time on court. In my experience teaching tennis to adults on tennis holidays in Mallorca, Spain, I feel players frustration around consistency & power on these 3 important strokes. These 3 tennis strokes use 2 different grips. A forehand eastern or semi-western grip and a continental grip for the backhand AND serve. The frustration from players is right there. Not having more than 1 tennis grip. Without learning with a good degree of competency the continental grip, tennis will be tricky at best to advance your level. Because so much of the game requires using the continental grip. For now let’s stick to the topic at hand - the forehand tennis stroke using the eastern grip.

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