Posts Tagged ‘tennis serve’

Is tennis in your head?

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Vic Braden's Mental Tennis: How to Psych Yourself to a Winning Game

So you’ve spent lots of money on your tennis racquet and have spend several hours on the tennis court, hitting thousands of forehands, backhands, volleys, overhead smashes, and serves. But what are you going to do next? Of course you want to see how you match up against another competitor in a tennis tournament setting. You got your USTA membership, you found the next tournament, you have you NTRP level picked out – most players are between a 3.5 to 4.5. All things are ready to go and the time has come to prove what you have worked so hard for. You get those pre match jitters and you think all will be well when it’s time to play.

The next thing you know it’s 6-0, 6-0 and you’re out! What the deuce??? Didn’t you work hard perfecting your game? You should have at least gotten in a game, right? Well here’s the deal, like most sports, tennis is mostly mental. You have to be in the match the whole time, that includes your mind! Yes, tennis has a mind game involved. All that court time you’ve put in is great and all, but you have also have to be mentally tough. Most, if not all tennis pros have their brain farts and lose a match (case in point, Nadal – French Open – 2009…nuff said).

So how do you fix it? You have to train your brain off the tennis court. In this little book there are so many little things that you can to do fix and perfect the mental game of tennis! Trust us, we’ve read it and it sure as heck has help us all – regardless of skill level.

Remember, we’re only trying to help your tennis game folks!

Just for fun…How fast can you serve?

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Hey tennisthis readers, just for giggles, how fast can you guys and girls serve?

Depending on the responses that we get, we might give the fastest server a prize (not money, sorry folks, the economy sucks), however; there will be some requirements to enter for the prize.

  1. We will actually need to see proof of your service record – a picture, a video, something that can be verified.
  2. What tennis equipment you used – what type of tennis racquet, tennis string, tennis ball, and location and time played.
  3. Your name please.

So, please comment on this post with your service speed – we’ll even convert those of you who only function in kilometers per hour :)

SpeedTrac X - Miscellaneous Tennis

Caught speeding in tennis?

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

You have to get this thing! It is the coolest little gadget for the tennis enthusiast of any level…. Ever wonder how fast you are hitting that tennis ball on your serve or ground stroke? Well, here at tennis this, we have found the solution for you! Let us introduce the SpeedTrac X:

SpeedTrac X - Miscellaneous Tennis

This awesome little puppy will register any tennis ball moving up to 150 mph (199 km/h) – like anybody other than Andy Roddick could hit that kind of gut busting speed. This is probably the most reliable speed gun/meter on the planet that most of us can actually afford – yes, it comes in at $139.95 USDĀ  plus free shipping. So, if you want to know what you can do on the tennis court, you should really consider gettingĀ  the SpeedTrac X