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Improve Your Tennis Game With Our Effective Lessons From Expert Coaches

Below you’ll find lessons, tips, and strategies to help you improve your tennis game. We have lessons on doubles, the mental side of tennis, and even a few on stroke technique! Our lessons are more effective because we share simple and easy-to-follow advice that you can use to improve faster.

Doubles players can also check out our online doubles strategy courses, 5-star doubles podcast, and Ebook: 25 Winning Doubles Tactics.

Improve Your Tennis Game With Lesons On…

Doubles

Lessons on when to poach, serve formations, return strategy, & more!  

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Mental

Lessons on winning tiebreakers, making your opponent angry, & more!

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Technique

Lessons on hitting cleaner volleys, better forehands, & bigger serves!

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Not sure where to start?

To get the most out of our lessons, I recommend starting with the 3 principles of good tennis, followed by what poker can teach you about tennis.

After reading those two lessons, you will have a foundation for the tennis strategies we’ve built everywhere else.

If, however, you know you need help in a specific area of tennis, like serve technique, navigate to the technique area above.

World Team Tennis men's doubles match

Doubles Lessons: Improve Your Strategy

Doubles strategy lessons are where Tennis Tribe got started. Eventually, they became so popular that we started a doubles podcast and YouTube Channel.

We’ve helped 1000’s of tennis players improve their serve, return, net play, and baseline strategy in doubles with our lessons below.


Katerina Siniakova and Barbora Krejcikova playing doubles at WTA Finals

How to Beat the #1 Doubles Team in the World: A WTA Doubles Scouting Report

Bryan Brothers interview with Coach Edgar Giffenig

What We Can & Can’t Learn from the Bryan Brothers

Who Should Take the Middle Ball in Doubles

Yours! Who Should Take the Middle Ball in Doubles?

Tennis serve strategy for doubles

Complete Guide to Serve Strategy for Doubles

When to attack the backhand volley

The Backhand Volley – My Favorite Shot in Tennis

When to move to the net in doubles

3 Times To Come To The Net In Doubles

7 tips for poaching in tennis

7 Tips For Poaching In Tennis

How to be a Good Doubles Partner

How To Be A Good Doubles Partner (Including Exact Phrases You Should NOT Be Saying!)

Tennis Doubles Strategy Tactics and Drills

Tennis Doubles Strategy: A Complete Guide

How to serve and volley in tennis

How To Serve And Volley In Doubles (Including Half Volley Tips)

Why Consistency is Important in Doubles Tennis

Make Them Play: Why Consistency is Important in Doubles & How to Make Fewer Errors

Returning the tennis ball in doubles

Return of Serve Strategies for Doubles: The Ultimate Guide

6 Rules to Play Better Doubles

6 Rules To Play Better Doubles (when nothing is going right!)

Doubles at the Australian Open

Three Simple Doubles Strategies To Beat Teams Better Than You

Biggest Mistake Doubles Players Make

The Biggest Mistake Doubles Players Make

Our content and video doubles lessons are here to make you better at tennis without having to put in dozens of hours of court time.

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Lessons on the Mental Side of Tennis

We’re not here to give you the standard coaching lessons on how to “stay positive” or “keep your energy up.”

There’s WAY too much of that already…

Instead, we go deeper than that. In the mental lessons below, we dive into the reasons why players get mad, lose their focus, or get nervous on the court. Then, we show you exactly how to make progress towards better mental performance.


The most important thing to add to your tennis game

The #1 Most Important Thing to Add to Your Tennis Game

3 ways to break your opponents down mentally

3 Ways To Break Your Opponents Down (Mentally)

The Mental Toughness Checklist

The Mental Toughness Checklist: How to NOT Lose Focus in a Tennis Match

3 reasons to play up in USTA leagues and tournaments

Why You Should Play Up in USTA Tournaments & Leagues

How to get the most out of tennis practice

How To Get The Most Out Of Tennis Practice

Nadal practice strategy for tennis

Rafael Nadal’s Practice Strategy

Tennis guide-how to improve mental toughness

Tennis Guide: Improve Your Mental Toughness

Tips for winning super tie breaks

The Ten Point Tiebreaker in Tennis: What is it? How to win more…

What Poker Can Teach You About Tennis

What Poker Can Teach You About Tennis

3 Principles of Good Tennis

The Three Principles Of Good Tennis


Lessons on Tennis Stroke Technique

Technique means having the ability to hit a particular shot. You need a technically correct serve, return, forehand, and backhand to become a better player. Improved technique in tennis allows you to execute your strategy.

The technique lessons below were written by expert coaches and players with years of experience coaching adult tennis players like you.


How to hit a drop shot in tennis

How to Hit a Drop Shot and When to Use it in Singles

How to hit a kick serve in 5 steps

How to Hit a Kick Serve in 5 Steps: Using the Right Toss, Technique, & Follow Through

5 Tennis Serve Tips

5 Tennis Serve Tips for Better Technique & More Power

Different types of forehand grip in tennis

Forehand Grip: Learn the Different Types of Forehand Grips in Tennis

Tennis forehand technique and drills

Tennis Forehand Technique and Drills

How to volley in tennis

How To Volley In Tennis | Grip, Technique, & Drills To Improve

Learn 3 doubles tactics to force errors & get more easy volleys with our free 20-page guide. Download Here

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