Sarah stone

Tennis is a very demanding sport as it requires a lot of volume/intensity in terms of training (on-court and off-court) and tournaments on varied surfaces during almost all the year. Because professional […]

Jane Taylor (a former professional tennis player) has been interviewing past elite athletes to discover their insights on their life after sport. In particular, they are being asked how they made the transition […]

Obviously, it’s never fun to fail, which in tennis means missing a shot, losing a game, set or even the whole match. The biggest underlying fear I have, looking at my career in retrospect and now working as a m […]

Who are you when everything you own and accomplished is taken away from you? This question came up in one of my recent conversations with the player I currently work with, Alize Cornet. Alize and I, we are […]

“But we’re investing so much money, we really need to see a return on our investment!”

I can’t tell you how many times I have heard the above or variations thereof from parents of kids 14 and under. And I don’t […]

People often ask me who my favorite player of all time. Hands down, Martina Navratilova!

I will never forget my first time meeting her. I was 16 years old and had received the wildcard for the tournament in […]

I know, I know…many roll their eyes when they hear the word self-kindness or self-compassion in the context of sports. After all, when talking about sports we’re inundated with terms that conjure up feelings qui […]

By Jane Taylor

Resilience is a skill that is essential for all young people to develop. According to Benard (2004),“…personal resilience strengths are the individual characteristics associated with healthy dev […]

Coaches don’t only teach technique and tactics. Most of the time, coaches become life mentors, advisors, and friends to their players. Coaches don’t have office hours, and they are basically on-call to support, […]

By Coach Jamie Kirkman

One of the biggest topics I often see online and hear coaches talk about is determining the differences when working with male and female players. In my professional opinion, if you […]

By Sandra Zaniewska – WTA tour coach of Petra Martic

Maybe you are one, maybe you are affected by one. Either way, I suggest you read on.

Yesterday a player I coach lost a match at a tennis tournament in […]

Lenny Schloss began playing at age 15 and since then has had a longstanding career within the world of tennis. Becoming one of the top 10 Americans on the Pro Tour, he learned the ‘ins and outs’ of the cou […]

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You would be hard-pressed to find a professional tennis player who does not execute the volley with exceptional technique and prowess. According to High-Performance Tennis […]

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To Jason Stacy, coach to Aryna Sabalenka, high-performance coaching is so much more than preparing the body for competition, it is also about preparing the mind.
Over the years, […]

By Laura Legoupil – WTA tour physiotherapist and strength and conditioning coach

As coaches, we should remind ourselves that the players we train, are athletes before being tennis players. It’s es […]

By Conrad Singh

At the highest levels of competitive tennis, it can be very hard to know who is winning or losing at first glance. One of the key concepts of understanding the inner game of tennis is that of […]

CAD? Tough current medical and surgical treatments manage coronary artery disease, they do little to prevent or stop it. Nutritional intervention, as shown in our study and others, has halted and even […]

Tim Bainton and Alex Planes

You’ve made it! You’ve built yourself a thriving business, and now it’s time to grow.

Every entrepreneur’s goal is to make more money while working less than they were at […]

If you were to poll 100 athletes on the top quality that a great coach must have, what would the top answer be? I suspect that 90 percent of the answers would involve a relational quality, rather than technical […]

Late in the year we are being entertained by the Fed Cup and Davis Cup final and recently the Laver Cup was a massive success. Tennis, like golf, swimming and track may be considered individual sports, but […]