Tennis Tips For Not So Very Young People

 I have learned that professional tennis players practice 6 days a week and a minimum of 4 hours per day. That's a lot of time and dedication. For not so very young people how often do we need to practice? For me everyday practice is good but around 30 minutes to 1 hour practice per day. For not so very young people, too much body stress is not recommended.  For not so very young people like us, the main objective is to maintain active body and good health but not to be professionally competitive in the sport. Yes we can have amateur tournaments but that is primarily to promote good health for not so very young people. If there are no players to play with, a vacant space with a wall is a good location for daily practice.

 Yeah you have power but it is not an assurance to win. Power Power without proper placement is just a waste of energy. I recently discovered a powerful forehand stroke but you know what? I lost in most of the games. Power in tennis is not an assurance to winning but power with proper placement is. Placement Place your powerful stroke to a position your opponent is uncomfortable with to cause unforced error. Pace Catch your opponent in surprise by varying your pace. Make a disguised drop shot or a surprise lob. Make your opponent guess your next shot. Try a backhand slice. Let's play tennis.

Yes you read correctly. We can still have power to compete with young tennis players for not so very young people. Yesterday, I played a very nice powerful doubles tennis game I am also somewhat shocked with. I was able to compete power versus power against a younger opponent and winning by a great margin, 14:3. (Our team won 14 games versus opponents 3 games) In our doubles matches, we usually play a continuous set until 8 games or more.  So what did I adjusted in my game?  One of my dilemma in tennis is that I have many kinds of stroke specially in forehand. I have tried around 5 ways of how to do the forehand. I was trying different strokes because my wrist is prone to injury and I am finding ways how can I find a perfect forehand that I can use in a tournament trying to balance power without experiencing wrist injury or pain. Our tennis tournaments we have here are usually short tournaments lasting around one week maximum and the games are held after work. We sometimes have 3 match

This start of the year, 2024, I feel somewhat lucky that my team won the championship in doubles lawn tennis and in doubles badminton in company tournaments. Just I would like to share why and how it happened. I started playing tennis far back in high school days. My father introduced me to tennis since he was a tennis player also. Tennis is one of the training I got from my father. In the past, we always lost in tennis or badminton games but now we won. In no particular order of importance, I just would like to share why I think it happened: Skill Similar to any sports, you have to acquire a level of skill by practice. You can master all aspects of the sport but at least you master one or two of them. In tennis, learn the basics of forehand, backhand, serving, volleying and lob. Also need to learn fast and slow pace, topspin, under spin and flat stroke for tennis. For me, somewhat I master lob and slow pace. Yes, slow pace can win matches. Most young tennis players want fast pace. The