We welcome story ideas from both existing and new contributors:
TennisPlayer.net stories are aimed at:
- providing instruction for enthusiastic players – both juniors and adults
- offering insights for coaches on how to best understand and teach a particular technique.
In most cases, our stories are heavily visual – videos and pictures that depict a concept and are then supported with text. Building off the trailblazing work done by our founder, John Yandell, we have a tremendous video archive that will support ideas and pieces generated by both existing and new contributors.
Our stories are also primarily service-oriented: providing readers with useful, practical information. As we’ve studied the past and planned for the future, we’ve come to see that these kinds of sharply focused instructional stories work best with our community, triggering everything from engaging comments in our popular “Forum” section to extensive deployment on the court.
Please consult our editorial calendar so that you can see what’s being planned for a particular month. Generally, we try to plan roughly three months in advance of a particular issue’s appearance, so please time your query accordingly.
In formulating your query, we also kindly ask you to answer each of these questions:
- What is the purpose of this piece? What do you wish to illuminate?
- Which audience do you see it serving? This can be a player of a specific age and/or skill level, or a coach at a particular venue, or both, or, as you see fit.
- How does your idea advance the dialogue around the topic?
- Is there a myth that’s being busted?
- Is there a new paradigm we should bring into the dialogue?
- Are there historical roots worth mentioning as well?
- Might we include content on how to teach this concept?
- What is the visual element?
- What are 1-3 concise intended takeaways?
Also note our new editorial guidelines:
- story length: maximum of 1,200 words
- employ subheads, bullet points and captions that concisely illuminate the idea
- stories will also include 1-3 separate, paragraph-long tidbits on the topic that can be used in other sections of that month’s issue
→ You may submit your ideas through our query portal
Unsolicited Manuscript Submissions
TennisPlayer.net does not accept unsolicited submissions. Unsolicited manuscript submissions will not be read. The only pieces we will read are those that generate specific assignments. This is a hard and fast rule and we appreciate all potential contributors adhering to it.
We continue to seek new ideas and wish to do so in the most efficient way possible for everyone from readers to writers to our staff.
We look forward to hearing from you.