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What are the keys to developing a pro level tennis dance?
Tennis is a dance, and the ball is your partner. I have said this for years, and now in this new series of articles for Tennisplayer, I want to demonstrate exactly what that dance looks like off the ground at the pro level–and how you can develop a similar groundstroke dance of your own.
In this first article I want to outline the components of world class movement and then the specific athletic skills required to develop them. In a second article I will summarize my work on the critical, often unrecognized concept of the “contact move,” the dynamic action of the feet and body during the ball striking phase.
In future articles, I will turn the analysis to the actual movement patterns of the world’s best players as they cover the court from sideline to side in some incredible Tennisplayer high speed video sequences—and see how the concepts we are outlining are applied. We’ll start those articles with Roger Federer, but then move on to Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
Finally, in later articles we will address the right movement options for the average player by looking at…