SO YOU WANT TO BE A PROFESSIONAL TENNIS PLAYER
A no-nonsense look at what it takes to be a professional tennis player After what many would consider a successful career, Jo-Wilford Tsonga recently retired from professional tennis. But I felt he could have done a lot more with his talent. I could observe Tsonga off-court quite a bit, and over the last few years, he had become just a shell of the player he was when he first burst on the scene. He seemed to have accepted the role of a journeyman tennis player, a player who was merely going through the motions at each tournament and wasn't willing to put the extra work in to maintain his position as a top 10 player. Many players, men, and women, merely show up each week to make up the numbers. Becoming a professional tennis player is not easy, and it's perhaps even more challenging to stay at the top once you get there. If your goal is to turn professional one day, there are 3 essential elements that you might not have thought about much. Watch out for outdated training method...