John Carpenter spent 18 years researching the best tennis methods in history. His 2024 hardback, Modern Tennis Instruction, A Historical Guide to Play Your Best Tennis, received critical acclaim for its timeline of instructional history. After John interviewed countless coaches, coach Chuck Tomlin told John he was looking for validation on how to hit the rising ball. John realized Tomlin had figured out the “missing link” in instruction, which Chuck called “shot-matching.” Chuck published two chapters in John’s book introducing “The Congruent Tennis Model,” a system that resolves many of tennis’ most vexing problems.
John Carpenter
Teaching Systems
Editor’s Note: John Carpenter is a rare tennis coach. In addition to having a solid grasp of contemporary techniques, John has extensively researched the history of how the game has been taught – that is, the very words that have...
Tennis History
I thought I was nearly finished researching my own book in 2018 when I opened The New York Times sports section and came across a review of a seven-pound, 562-page volume titled The Birth of Lawn Tennis (2018), co-authored by...