Tennis
Tennis biomechanics, training science, tactics and mental performance — by Emre Köse.
Sleep for Tennis Players: The Single Highest-Leverage Recovery Tool
Almost every tennis player I have coached is under-sleeping. The gap between what players need and what they get is the single…
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When to Start Tennis: What the Developmental Evidence Says
A parent calls: their child is four. Should they start tennis? The honest answer, supported by motor-development research, is more interesting than…
Read More →Tennis as Game Theory: Mixed Strategies on Serve
The serve is a strategic choice as much as a physical action. Game theory predicts surprisingly precise things about how the best…
Read More →Wrist Lag and Pronation on the Forehand
Two moves separate a 100 km/h forehand from a 140 km/h forehand. Both are consequences of upstream sequencing — and telling a…
Read More →A Warm-Up That Actually Works
Most amateur warm-ups are either two minutes of jogging or five minutes of static stretching. Both are wrong. A good tennis warm-up…
Read More →Periodizing a Junior Tennis Year
Juniors plan around school terms, growth spurts, tournament selections. The cost of getting periodization wrong is paid by a developing athlete with…
Read More →Why Tennis Players Need Strength Training: An Evidence-Based Case
The "lifting tightens you up" argument is old, persistent, and almost entirely wrong. Programmed correctly, strength training raises serve speed and stroke…
Read More →The Seven Major Patterns of Play in Modern Tennis
Watch a thousand professional points without a framework, you see chaos. With the right framework, you see seven repeated patterns playing out…
Read More →The Return Is the Second-Most-Important Shot in Tennis
Returns happen as often as serves. At the elite level, return-points-won predicts match results more strongly. And yet the return is the…
Read More →The Point as the Unit of Analysis
Tennis is not 90 minutes of continuous activity. It is a sequence of points. Measure in minutes and you measure work and…
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