Shot to Shot Readiness: Part 2

On court drills are the key to staying ready over the course of a match. In my article in the June issue of Tennisplayer, I argued that shot to shot readiness is an absolute prerequisite for successful stroke execution. This is true not only at the top levels of the game, but especially at the club level. (Click Here.) As we saw, there is a precious 3 second window between shots in club tennis, and this pattern repeats over and over for a long as a point continues. You need every bit of this window to recover, prepare, move, set up, and execute the next shot. Far too many players waste most of this interval, by not reacting until the ball bounces on their side. By then it's simply too late. There literally is not enough time to execute a quality technical stroke. This is why I say shot to shot readiness is a fundamental building block in learning tennis. In the first article, we also presented the movement sequences you need to develop shot to shot readiness in the backcourt, at the net, and on the serve. But what experience shows is that when players begin to follow these...