SAM'S TENNIS TIPS #2

Watching the Ball – What It Really Means

“Watch the ball” is a phrase that has become so familiar to most people that it doesn’t have much meaning. When they hear an instructor tell them to watch the ball they think, “Yeah, I know. Now what?” But in my opinion the one thing you can do to improve your game the most is to become disciplined about watching the ball and make it your number one priority.

If you think about it the only time that we can influence where the ball goes is when it is on our strings. So all of the stroke techniques, strategies and other things that we’ve learned are meaningless if we don’t hit the ball in the place that will make it go where we want. And that right there is the key. Tennis is not about hitting a target on the other side of the net – it’s about hitting the spot on the ball that will send it to the target on the other side of the net.

So the next time your game goes off a little and you want to start changing things around. First, focus your eyes on the spot on the ball you need to hit in order to get it to go where you want and see what happens