Player Development & Training Tips

Your child hits a growth spurt, tennis loads spike, and injuries lurk. Learn how to measure peak height velocity at home, adjust weekly training, and use a clear traffic-light plan to stay healthy from ages 9 to 16.

A practical, research-backed guide to weekly tennis volume in 2025. See age-by-age targets across on-court work, strength, mobility, and match play, with school-year and summer schedules, red flags, checkpoints, and low-resource options.

Build a reliable return without overhauling your stroke. This four week plan grows anticipation, contact quality, and depth control with five on court progressions, at home drills, surface and doubles tweaks, plus trackable KPIs.

A practical, parent-friendly toolkit to plan, film, edit, and share a three-minute recruiting reel that college tennis coaches actually watch. Exact shot list, camera settings, doubles musts, privacy tips, and ready-to-send emails.

Back-to-back match days are won in the hours between them. Use this 48-hour step-by-step protocol for warm-downs, mobility, hydration, refueling, sleep, and morning activation. Includes parent checklists, adult templates, heat and travel tactics.

A practical, video-first guide that helps juniors, parents, and adults diagnose and fix split-step timing in two sessions using phone slow motion and three progressive drills. Includes doubles patterns and match metrics.

A week-by-week, test-driven plan for high school and college-bound tennis players that blends strength, speed, mobility, and on-court progressions. Includes parent checklists, templates, and an optional mini-camp taper and video prep.

Confused by World Tennis Number and Universal Tennis Rating? This 2025 guide shows parents how to plan 12-week training blocks, set match-play targets, and choose tournaments to raise both, plus recruiting tips and coach emails.