Tennis
Tennis biomechanics, training science, tactics and mental performance — by Emre Köse.
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…
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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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Why Aerobic Base Matters Even in an Alactic Sport
The point is alactic. The recovery between points is aerobic. Forget that and you have a player who can hit one great…
Read More →The Split Step: Timing, Height, and Why Every Modern Player Does It
Twenty milliseconds sounds trivial. In a sport with sub-800 ms ball travel, it is the difference between meeting the ball in front…
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