A Personal Message From
John Yandell

John Yandell Editor

Understanding the game. Understanding how to play the game. Keeping an open mind. Finding some joy in the process. Playing inspired tennis, whatever your level. Moving your level upward, toward your potential.

That's about as simply as I can put my goal in creating Tennisplayer, our new online instructional magazine. For me it's professional, but also personal. I get a lot of satisfaction from all dimensions of this quest to unravel the mysteries of the game, including the opportunity to share them here with you. And I'm hoping your experience will be similar.

Tennisplayer gives you access to a high level, insider's world, a world filled with powerful new information and training techniques--a world you simply can't access anywhere else.

You'll find a new generation Stroke Archive with over 10,000 video clips, featuring more than 35 of the world's greatest players, present and also past. You can study one perfect Roger Federer backhand, one Andy Roddick serve, one Andre Agassi forehand--or a hundred. The viewing windows are larger, the resolution is higher, and the files are smaller and get to you faster. We'll show you how to download them directly and study the pros side by side, as well as compare them to your own strokes.

You'll find the latest analysis of incredible high speed video of the strokes of the top players from Advanced Tennis. You'll find the voices of the most gifted teachers, coaches and researchers. Major figures like Robert Lansdorp, Rick Macci, Nick Bolletieri, and Jim Loehr, among others. A new generation of coaches like Craig Cignarelli and Alistair Higham.

You'll find tennis scientists and researchers including: Bruce Elliot, Brian Gordon, and Greg Ryan. Private lessons from some of the most creative and successful teaching pros in the game like Scott Murphy and Kerry Mitchell.

Tennisplayer provides a forum where they can present their authentic views, on whatever topics at whatever length, all illustrated with a luminous new generation of animations, original video, and digital photography.

As a subscriber, you'll have an exclusive opportunity to study, evaluate, and absorb their work and also to interact with other subscribers, as well as the writers themselves on the Tennisplayer message boards.

We won't pretend we have all the answers or that everyone who contributes is in perfect harmony and agreement. That would be impossible--and it wouldn't forward our understanding of the game. But we will try to stimulate the flow of information and open discussion.

The fact is every tennis player has to discover what he or she really believes, and the direction in which to develop his or her own game. I think this is what separates a tennis player from someone who just plays tennis. A tennis player loves learning to understand the game almost as much as playing it. The more you develop and improve, the less these two seem like two different things. So thanks for checking out our site. We think we have something that is more than worthwhile and we hope that you subscribe. And if you do, we want to hear from you and how it impacts your life as a tennis player.