Bigger Better Tennis - Paul Dale

TRAIN WITH A PURPOSE It always surprises me just how  few players actually prepare for tournaments in a coordinated way. Perhaps the belief is that training before tournaments should basically continue on as before, and that hopefully things should just “fall into place.” If you don’t train with a specific purpose great results will most certainly be illusive. Here’s a suggestion for your training just before tournament time. Before each tournament, select one topic to focus on in practice and master that topic! Imagine if the topic you decide to improve on before the tournament was the Serve, but in particular the wide serve. If you gave yourself 2 weeks to work on the wide serve how good do you think that particular serve would be in the following tournament? Now, imagine for the second tournament you decide to work on your ability to create a wider backhand cross court ball that would pull your opponent off the court and set up a weak half court ball that you can at