Player Development & Training Tips

A practical, month-by-month guide for families steering a high school player from sophomore year to a college roster. Clear benchmarks, strength and conditioning milestones, academic checkpoints, smart scheduling, outreach, and academy partnership tips.

Turn school and work calendars into smarter tennis weeks. Practical templates for juniors, college bound players, and adults with RPE tracking, match play, strength and speed, recovery, and adjustments for tournaments and exams.

Want a faster, cleaner return of serve? Use this four week plan to master split step timing, read the toss and contact, and run simple first ball patterns. Includes junior, parent, and adult tracks with benchmarks and drills.

A practical, science-based plan for training and competing in summer heat and wildfire haze. Hydration and sodium targets by bodyweight, decision thresholds, acclimation, cooling, timelines, templates, and case studies in Arizona.

Adapt your split-step timing, first-step acceleration, recovery routes, and safe sliding for hard, clay, and synthetic grass. Get 15-minute drills, phone-video checkpoints, and age-specific progressions with a Nice Tennis Academy spotlight.

Move from outdoor to indoor with a clear 4-week plan. Learn spacing and footwork tweaks, serve and return timing, vision and reaction drills, and smart conditioning. Includes parent checklists and ready-to-run session templates.

Confused about WTN and UTR in 2025? This guide explains what each rating measures, how college coaches read them, which events move the needle, and how to plan stress‑light schedules that still build a recruitable profile.

A practical, evidence-informed guide to modern string choices and starter tension bands by racquet size and swing speed. Includes climate tweaks for Montauk, Palm Desert, and Bangkok, plus easy safety rules and three plug and play builds.

Turn college-style doubles into a trainable checklist. Master serve targets, first volleys, deep returns, proactive poaching, I and Aussie signals, transition footwork, overhead coverage, and between-point talk with clear drills and metrics.

Commit 8 to 12 weeks each year to clay to upgrade movement, point construction, and durability. This plan includes age-specific microcycles, match-to-practice ratios, core clay drills, a court-finding tipsheet, and block scheduling.

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.