How To Play Tennis

A Step-By-Step Guide for the Tennis Beginner

Tomaz Mercinger, a teaching pro for the last 12 years, has developed a series of videos to make learning to play tennis a snap for the tennis beginner.

Enjoy the game without the expensive tennis coaching lessons that produce robotic strokes. The techniques in the videos show “how to speed the motor learning process, so that you improve much faster than beginners normally do.”

Tomaz’ How to Play Tennis guide consists of 3 main packages:

1. How to Play Tennis on The Baseline

2. How to Serve and Return

3. How to Play Tennis at The Net

The whole guide of tennis instructions includes 37 videos plus additional videos. You can get each instruction package separately. If your main area of concern is baseline tennis or the tennis return of serve, it’s possible to select the package of tennis basics for those areas.

To check out the total of 49 learning videos and have a look at How to Play Tennis: A Step-by-Step Guide for The Tennis Beginner click here.

A Touchy Subject - Learning The Lob

Beginners and experienced players, for that matter, can have problems with executing the lob. The lob requires touch along with precision. A lob is a high launch of the ball landing, hopefully, between the service-line and the baseline. An excellent lob should be within 6 feet of the baseline.

Tennis lob shots are mostly defensive. The strategy involved in lobs are: (1) to give yourself time to recover position when pulled out of court by your opponent's shot; (2) to drive back the net man and break up his attack; (3) to make your opponent run and tire him/her; (4) on occasion to win cleanly by placement. This is ordinarily a lob volley from a close net rally, and is a slightly different stroke

It takes a lot of split second calculating, judgment and executing to pull off a well placed lob. Practicing the lob for the beginner or intermediate player will help hone their skill.

A chop lob is a shot with heavily under-cut spin that hangs in the air. It is a defensive lob, as it goes high and gives plenty of time to recover position. The flat lob is hit with a slight top spin. This is the point-winning lob since it gives no time to, the player to run around it, as it is lower and faster than the chop. In making this lob, start your swing like a drive, but allow the racquet to slow up and the face to tilt upward just as you meet the ball. This, shot should seldom go above 10 feet in the air, since it tends to go out with the float of the ball.

In practicing a defensive lob, one should strive to hit balls that should rise from 20 to 30 feet or more and land deep. In a match it is better to lob out and run your opponent back, thus tiring him, than to lob short and give him confidence by an easy kill. The value of a lob is mainly one of upsetting your opponent, and its effects are very apparent if you unexpectedly bring off one at the crucial period of a match.