In 2018, Kyle Edmund finished ranked No.14 in the world--the 14th best player on the planet. Yet, he lost 48% of all the points that he played. That's right, being able to win 52% of his total points was enough...

December 2019

Here is a final important issue to understand as we close our series on Marginal Gains. Momentum. Understanding momentum can offer a final marginal gain that can be very beneficial to you at key moments in a match. I sometimes...

November 2020

As much as the foundation of your strategy should be built around your strengths and game style, there will always be times in matches where lower percentage shots will be played. These tend to look great when they come off,...

October 2020

Over the course of this series, we've developed a full understanding of your game, (Click Here) including your favorite shots, your top shot, and sequences that could enable you to set up your top shot with another pre-selected shot. (Click...

August 2020

In this series we've been looking at the process of creating marginal gains to win matches. (Click Here.) In this article I want to give an example of how this work was the difference for my team in the biggest...

July 2020

In this series, we have looked in depth at the way you can use to strengths of your game in matches in ways that lead to winning that extra handful of critical points that are the difference in close matches....

June 2020

Let's now move onto the start of point scenario where you are returning serves. If you read the last article on serving (Click Here), you have an understanding of what an intelligent server is trying to do. This is a...

May 2020

Now you have comprehensively developed your understanding of your own game (Click Here), based on a good understanding of the game as a whole (Click Here), it's time to get stuck into those marginal gains, and learn how to boost...

April 2020

Unless you have the luxury of training full time, finding time to practice with all the other things that are going on in your life isn't always easy. Practice time is often precious and restricted, so making the very most...

March 2020

In the first two articles we looked at identifying your preferred shots (Click Here) and how to do a simple test based on this to determine if you are a right side or left side player (Click Here.) So if...

February 2020

Making the marginal gains that influence matches is dependent on understanding whether you are a right side player or a left side player. In this article we will show how to use a simple test to determine this based on...

January 2020

Did Pete Sampras and Justine Henin have it right about serving stance? In the last article on serving rhythm we saw how the serve--as with the other strokes-- could be divided into two phases. The first is a slower more...

July 2016

What are the real checkpoints for the two rhythm phases on the serve? A key component in learning and executing the serve is what I call 1-2 Rhythm. This is analogous to 1-2 Rhythm on the groundstrokes, as we have...

April 2016

What are the keys in developing 1-2 Rhythm on the slice? Like all the groundstrokes, a well struck slice backhand slice has 1-2 Rhythm. However, there are real differences in the feeling of executing 1-2 Rhythm on the slice compared...

February 2016

Like other groundstrokes, the one-handed backhand is hit with 1-2 Rhythm. In the first two articles in this series we have looked at a timing concept called 1-2 Rhythm, first for the forehand (Click Here) and then for the two-handed...

January 2016

Phase 1: Smooth and Deliberate. Phase 2: Explosive! In my first article (Click Here) we saw how to develop 1-2 Rhythm on the forehand. Now let's turn to the two-hander. What is 1-2 rhythm? A simple idea that breaks down...

December 2015

1-2 Rhythm: deliberate then explosive. This new series introduces a simple concept I call 1-2 Rhythm. What is 1-2 Rhythm? 1-2 Rhythm breaks the timing of tennis strokes into two parts, or phases. Phase 1 is the setup phase, which...

November 2015