Tennis Tips: How To Really Improve Your Tennis Game In Just 30 Minutes!

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Tennis Tips: How To Really Improve Your Tennis Game In Just Thirty Minutes
By Jay P. Granat, Ph.D.

The Australian Open is taking place now and avid tennis fans and tennis players will be tuning in early in the morning, (United States Time) to watch the world's best tennis players compete in this first major tournament of the year.

Highly ranked juniors and weekend warriors will be studying the players and the matches carefully and some will be hoping to pick up a few tips that will allow them to take their game to that next level.

I have coached many top players on the mental side of the game and have worked closely with some elite coaches. I am always intrigued by coaches who are great diagnosticians and who can make the game simple via the way they communicate with their students.

Sometimes, one simple tip can help a tennis player to elevate his or her tennis game.

One man, Oscar Wegner, the well-known tennis guru, has developed a simple methodology which can help skilled players, recreational players and weekend warriors.

Wegner, who has coached many of the top players in the world, encourages players to have three ideas in mind when they prepare to hit a tennis ball, when they strike it and when they complete their swing:

It is quite simple yet very comprehensive: Find it. Feel it. Finish it.

I have used these simple ideas in my own game and in helping others to play better.

Find it refers to locating the ball its pace, its direction, its height and its spin. Your feet will move almost automatically if you do a good job of locating the ball.

Feel it reminds players to impart spin and to keep the ball on the strings. Wegner, like most modern teachers understands and emphasizes the importance of topspin from the baseline.

Finish it encourages players to swing through the ball and follow through after you feel it on your strings. This facilitates and good weight transfer.

This simple method makes it easy to diagnose what you are doing wrong. For instance, if you set up late, you have not done a good job of following the ball.

Similarly, if you fail to impart spin, you have not done a good job of feeling the ball.

Thirdly, if you hit the ball into the net or weakly over the net, you most likely have failed to finish your swing.

In addition, Wegner's method can be applied to some extent to all of the shots in tennis. You can use these concepts are your serve, your volley, your half volley, you lob,your overhead, your slice, and your drop shot. So, this method has a lot of applications to it.

Give this approach a try and see if your tennis game improves.

Jay P. Granat, Ph.D., is a Psychotherapist, Author and The Founder of http://www.StayInTheZone.com. Granat has appeared in many major media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Good Morning America, Tennis Magazine, TennisView Magazine, The BBC, The CBC and ESPN. He is the author of Zone Tennis and many other mental toughness and peak performance programs. He has recently formed a partnership with some of the top tennis pros in the world. Dr. Granat is available for private coaching and for seminars. He can be reached at 888 580-ZONE or at info@stayinthezone.com

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