Warm Up for the Warm Up: Optimize Your Tennis Performance
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Guest Post By Daniel Rifkin ​MTPS, CTSS, RacquetFit, Etcheberry, USPTA Too many times I see players (of all ages and levels) get out to the court and with no physical warm up they start doing some mini tennis hitting and slowly move back to the baseline eventually getting into a live and full force hitting session. Even worse is when players roll up to a tournament match and jump on court using the match warm up as their warm up to compete. No wonder why you take the whole first set to get going and start feeling good. I don't know who "you" is, but "you" know who you are. Major compone ..read more
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Dynamic Warm-Ups For High School Tennis Players
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The warm-up period is one of the most important periods of training for all tennis athletes. However, it becomes even more important in the High School setting due to the limited time a coach has with players, and also the divergent level of players who play at the High School level. So a major opportunity exists to maximize training time and use the time period as effectively as possible. Although many options exist to perform a well-structured tennis specific warm-up program, below are some great resources that you can implement to help you as a coach/trainer/specialist who works with High S ..read more
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Lateral Acceleration: Djokovic, Nadal and On-Court Training Part 2
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by Doug Eng EdD PhD, MTPS and Bharathan Sundar TESTING UNILATERAL POWER Measurement of initial leg power can be correlated to leg strength. Hewit et al. (2012) tested single leg countermovement (SLCM) jumps vertically (SLCM-V), horizontally (SLCM-H), laterally (SLCM-L) with either legs. The largest leg discrepancies were SLCM-L. Lockie et al. (2014) found some correlation between lateral power and COD but lateral jumps were not the strongest predictors of the COD test. Young et al. (2002) found that COD was related to the outside reactive leg strength. For example, athletes averaging 24% stron ..read more
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Lateral Acceleration: Djokovic, Nadal and On-Court Training Part 1
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By Doug Eng EdD PhD, MTPS and Bharathan Sundar Tennis movement can be characterized by primarily short lateral bursts over typically 3-4 m initiated by a reactive split-step. Movement can be improved by: 1) strength-speed training, 2) technical training, 3) and anticipation training. Kovacs (2009) summarized the importance of lateral movement training. This article will address on-court lateral acceleration with regards to strength-speed and technical training. Lateral acceleration depends on unilateral movement, or specifically, the outside leg to enhance ground reaction force (GRF). Over an ..read more
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THE RETURN TO TENNIS (RTT) MODEL FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE PLAYERS: A Case Example Based On Workload Data From Two  Female Professional Tennis Players
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Satoshi Ochi, MA, CSCS, RSCC*D, CTPS, MTPS Head Strength & Conditioning Coach, United States Tennis Association Player Development, iTPA Master Tennis Performance Specialist (MTPS)   Mark Kovacs, PhD, FACSM, CSCS*D, CTPS, MTPS Executive Director, International Tennis Performance Association & CEO, Kovacs Institute ​ Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented and unexpected months away from tennis, and for many athletes weeks of complete quarantine and isolation.  Under “stay at home” conditions, many athletes were unable to practice and train using their no ..read more
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Functional Core Training for the Tennis Athlete
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Guest Post by Josh Rifkin, MTPS, RacquetFit, USPTA, CHEK, FMS, LMT Co-Director of Fitness and Academy Coach, The Austin Tennis Academy ​Medicine ball throws, long plank holds, crunches and sit-ups. Is this type of core training for the tennis athlete flawed? These types of core training methods have been around for ages, but does that mean these methods are optimized? I would argue no. While most videos and core routines posted for tennis athletes are either extremely dynamic (medicine ball throws) or extremely static (record breaking plank holds) there is a huge link missing from this to hel ..read more
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Using Visualization Skills to Better your Game During COVID-19
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Guest post by Adam Lee, TPT, CTPS ​Glen Head Racquet and Fitness Visualization is arguably the most important factor in the mental approach to tennis, and the current situation we are facing with the COVID-19 pandemic gives us an opportunity to turn within and hone our craft through improving mental acuity with certain visualization techniques. Strong visualization skills allow players to run scenarios in their heads, getting an edge on the court through practicing meditation, imagery, and interval training off the court.   Meditation is a technique used by many athletes who want to trai ..read more
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Is the COVID-19 pandemic another reason why tennis may be the healthiest sport?
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“Why this global game may be the right sport for this global pandemic” by: Neeru Jayanthi, MD, USPTA, PTR I recently stepped off the court playing tennis with one of my good friends in the neighborhood. Like many of you, we often do this to relieve the stress of our usual very busy work weeks.  However, this time it was different as we are playing during a time where much of the world has been shut down due to the impending and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.  While as a tennis player I see the many reasons why it was good to finally get a “hit” in; as an academic sports (and tennis medicine ..read more
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What It Takes To Be A Professional Male Tennis Player – The 3 Physical Signatures of Professional Tennis Athletes
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Introduction/History Over the past few decades the numbers of players trying to play professional tennis has grown significantly. The prize money has increased 13% in the last year; in 1990 Pete Sampras beat Andre Agassi in US Open Final and Pete’s prize money check was US $220,000. In 2020 the winner will receive right at US $4 million. As a result, the financial benefits of being a top tennis player has increased significantly and more people all over the world are looking at the possibilities of making professional tennis a career. The finances are very top heavy, but if you can make ..read more
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Modern Tennis Movement: Learning from Rafael Nadal
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by Doug Eng EdD PhD CSCS CTPS MTPS ​PART I – CHANGING PHYSIOLOGY, DEMANDS OF MOVEMENT AND THE CASE STUDY OF NADAL Traditional tennis movement has been taught as involving quick, small, shuffle and adjustment steps. The traditional clay court game has been taught with additional sliding movement involving long, grinding points. However, today’s matches don’t involve as many long rallies as 40 years ago. Research on modern tennis movement shows today’s game has some different characteristics. Points are shorter and faster creating greater demands on speed, agility and quickness. Tennis-speci ..read more
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