Tennis Coaching & Technique:
Tennis Techniques: The Tennis Coaching Manual

Want to learn how to play tennis?
Congratulations: you've found the perfect web site for learnimg about tennis tecniques and playing tennis strokes.
This is the home of the tennis coaching manual with two fundamental differences.
Firstly, the two parts of the tennis coaching manual (sample chapters below from The Forehand and The Serve) has been written by a writer who wandered into tennis coaching (for many years), rather than by a tennis coach struggling to write. And the techniques I taught (and wrote about for many tennis magazines, especially in Germany, where I had my own monthly column) were based entirely on the strokes of the world's top professional players.
Secondly, the photographer, writer and ex tennis coach are all the same person. The tennis tournament sequence photos, from 18 years of pro tournament photography, have all been lovingly (and obsessively) captured and this was the first site to make tennis stroke animations from sequence tennis photography (to my knowledge, it's the only tennis site that has turned instructional imaging and writing into an art form).
Many have copied the ideas, but has any tennis coaching web site on the internet matched the technical tennis content for excellence, originality, depth and imagination?
Using the sample chapters below as a reference, do some internet searches under 'tennis coaching' and make your own mind up.
In technical sports like tennis, knowledge is power and these digital tennis pages are being written to serve the reader, and tennis players of every standard, for a lifetime.
The Forehand and The Serve are the first two parts of an ongoing coaching project and tennis book, the aim of which is to make the highest pro tennis techniques accessible to you, the reader. This will empower parents to teach tennis to their kids, non-specialist sports teachers to teach tennis strokes to their pupils and help anyone to develop tennis strokes based on many of the best players of all time.
To whet your appetite (below) are the first three chapters of Part One: The Forehand. and
the first two chapters of Part 3: The Serve.
Technical tennis writing was never so good.

Part 1 The Forehand and Part 3 The Serve are available as a digital download, at www.lulu.com, above.

Part 2, The Backhand and Part 4, The Net Game are pending, although each of which will make more sense if you've read the first part..

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Tennis book: Part 1, The Forehand

Chapter One: Building a Forehand

Chapter Two: The Grip

Chapter Three: Rackets in Motion

Tennis Coaching Manual: Part 3: The Serve

Chapter One: The Serve,

Chapter Two, The Serve

Some more Tennis Pages

Wanna Play Tennis?

Roddick Serve

Andy Roddick Forehand

Serena Williams Forehand

Jimmy Connors and Andy Roddick

Venus Williams

Tim Henman: Kick Serve and Forehand

Venus and Serena Williams: Serves

Junior Tennis

Try another sample page from the book, where the text is rendered as an image, and actually looks as good as it reads!

Older Articles and Pages
The Backhand, Article 1

Article 2

Article 3

Poetry

Symphony

Gallery

Dementieva

Mary Joe Fernandez

Annabel Croft

Marat Safin

Andre Agassi