http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/ http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/ A Viewpoint on the Game, Concentration; Practice; The Racquet Head and the Preparation for the Shot, Condition, Physical and Mental; Equipment, Keep Your Eye on the Ball, Footwork and Weight Control, The General Technique of All Strokes; The Grips, The Service, The Drive, The Chop and the Slice, The Net Game: The Volley; The Overhead Smash, The Suhtle Shots: The Loh; The Half-Volley; The Drop Shot weekly 0 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/the_foundation_of_tennis.htm I urge you-play tennis! Tennis is the most valuable sport that any individual can learn, even more so than golf. It is the most universally played of all athletics, and its rules are the same the world over. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/tennis_game.htm I urge you-play tennis! Tennis is the most valuable sport that any individual can learn, even more so than golf. It is the most universally played of all athletics, and its rules are the same the world over. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/how_began_tennis.htm Tennis probably dates back to prehistoric time. Presumably a caveman one day fashioned a round object from, let's say, the fruit of a gum tree and amused himself by throwing it against a tree, rolling it down a hill or belting it with a stick. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/tennis_concentration.htm Concentration; Practice; The Racquet Head and the Preparation for the Shot. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/tennis_condition.htm Condition, Physical and Mental; Equipment weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/eye_on_ball.htm The eye works the same way when you watch a moving ball coming toward you. You can either see a clear background with a blurred uncertain ball, or a blurred background with a clear ball. In the first instance, your eye has not been kept on the ball during its entire flight, with the result that by the time the ball reaches you, your focus is lost and you will probably mis-hit it. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/weight_control.htm ALL SHOTS in tennis should be hit with the body sideways to the net, and the weight going forward with the shot. The position of the feet is the means by which this is accomplished, and there are definite rules of procedure that will save a pupil months of discouragement. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/strokes_and_their_uses.htm Learn the correct racquet grips. Learn the correct footwork and body position. Learn to hit the ball. Learn to hit the ball correctly. Learn to hit the ball correctly to a certain place. Learn to hit the ball correctly to a certain place hard, or slow, or at even pace. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/grips.htm Learn the correct racquet grips. Learn the correct footwork and body position. Learn to hit the ball. Learn to hit the ball correctly. Learn to hit the ball correctly to a certain place. Learn to hit the ball correctly to a certain place hard, or slow, or at even pace. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/grips_tennis.htm The first step in acquiring good strokes is to learn the correct grips-notice I said grips, not grip, for no one grip will do for all strokes. You will hear much talk about the three schools of gripping the racquet. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/service.htm THERE ARE THREE main types of service in general use, and from them come all the other variations that are of any value. These are: The Slice, The Flat or Cannonball, The American Twist, or "Kick." weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/drive.htm The drive, on both wings, is the most important single stroke in tennis. It is played probably twice as of ten as all the other strokes combined. It is the key to all back-court games, and since a player must make at least one ground stroke before he can volley, you can see that ground strokes will always be more important than the net game. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/chop_slice.htm PASSING FROM the drive to the only other ground strokes of major importance, we now take up the chop stroke and the slice shot. The only difference between the two is in the angle made by the racquet head's hitting plane and the flight of the ball. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/netgame_volley.htm The volley and overhead smash-represents the ultimate attack in tennis. It is the crushing offensive that either blasts an opponent off the court or wrecks itself by the very fury of its own attack. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/lob_tennis.htm The slice or backspin lob, the flat lob, the loop or topspin lob. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/match_play_tactics.htm Learn the correct racquet grips. Learn the correct footwork and body position. Learn to hit the ball. Learn to hit the ball correctly. Learn to hit the ball correctly to a certain place. Learn to hit the ball correctly to a certain place hard, or slow, or at even pace. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/courage.htm Courage embodies patience, philosophy, and the vision to lift your eyes to the goal far ahead. It is the ability, in spite of discouragement, disheartening disappointments, even apparent failure, never to lose sight of that goal, or belief in yourself and your ultimate victory. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/opponents_weaknesses.htm Let your opponent be the one to take the unnecessary chances, and the one who will pile up the majority of those 70 per cent errors. You are playing the percentage if you do so, and you'll beat your opponent if you are otherwise evenly matched. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/tennis_tactics.htm You should never hit any shot in match play without a definite intention behind it. If you drive, think of driving and of no other type of stroke. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/outside_conditions.htm A man who really understands how to take full advantage of unusual conditions has a big edge over one who doesn't. Nevertheless, it's the rare player who ever takes the trouble to study out what to do when up against such conditions as a strong wind or a bad court surface. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/pressure_opponent.htm So many players bear down only in fits and starts. An early lead will give many a player a sense of false security, and cause him to let up, when actually he has nothing more than a slight advantage due to his opponent's starting slowly. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/doubles_mixed_doubles.htm Doubles and singles are quite different games in the manner in which you use the shots of tennis. Singles is essentially a baseline game, with occasional net attacks. Doubles is a net game, with as little back-court play as possible. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/the_summing_up.htm Learn the correct racquet grips. Learn the correct footwork and body position. Learn to hit the ball. Learn to hit the ball correctly. Learn to hit the ball correctly to a certain place. Learn to hit the ball correctly to a certain place hard, or slow, or at even pace. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/tennis_coaching.htm Teaching tennis is not an easy job if you want to get results, and anybody who thinks it is has my full permission to try it out for a while. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/legendary_tennis_players.htm I can hold dear my recollections of such stars as Billy Johnston, Vinnie Richards, Dick Williams, Norman Brookes, Gerald Patterson, J. O. Anderson, Ichiya Kumagae, Zenzo Shimizu, Frank Hunter, Manual Alonso, Henri Cochet, Rene Lacoste, Jean Borotra, and the other greats of my amateur days. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/womens_tennis.htm During the over one hundred years that women in the United States have played tennis, the sport has changed dramatically. From the court-length dresses with their numerous petticoats of the 1870's to the short, pastel-colored tennis dresses of the 1970's, from patting a ball gently over a high sloping net to attacking baseline or net games, and from the pastime of the leisurely country-club set to a popular professional sport, women's tennis has come a long way. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/careers_women_tennis_players.htm The two preceding sections have clearly demonstrated that American women tennis players have not typically become younger in recent years. Yet in both sections the analysis has been based on averages. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/more.htm Learn the correct racquet grips. Learn the correct footwork and body position. Learn to hit the ball. Learn to hit the ball correctly. Learn to hit the ball correctly to a certain place. Learn to hit the ball correctly to a certain place hard, or slow, or at even pace. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/australian_tennis_questions.htm The importance of tennis in the sporting history of Australia can hardly be overestimated. Some Australians look back on their country's former dominance of world tennis with the same degree of nostalgia as some British remember their past empire. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/australian_tennis_history.htm The sport, like so many features of Australian life was imported from England. It is the conclusion of leading authorities that modern lawn tennis was devised in 1869 and later patented in 1874 by Major Walter Clapton Wingfield in England. He called the game 'Sphairistike' (which was the Greek word for ball game) weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/australian_tennis_players.htm Thus, in tennis we see the personality problems of Borg, the difficulties of Connors' and Borg's marriages, the tantrums and uncontrolled rage of McEnroe. Of course, the question of the degree to which society or tennis is to blame for such trends must be considered and analysed closely. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/women_australian_tennis.htm Tennis was the symbol of an age, an era, a class, an attitude to life; and the female dimension proved this point. Very little interpretative analysis of the role of women in tennis has been attempted. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/australian_tennis_atmosphere.htm I can hold dear my recollections of such stars as Billy Johnston, Vinnie Richards, Dick Williams, Norman Brookes, Gerald Patterson, J. O. Anderson, Ichiya Kumagae, Zenzo Shimizu, Frank Hunter, Manual Alonso, Henri Cochet, Rene Lacoste, Jean Borotra, and the other greats of my amateur days. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/olympic_tennis.htm (1988) Two new sports will appear on the programme for the 1988 Olympic Games : Tennis and Table Tennis. Below the Presidents of these International Federations have given their comments. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/youth_rule_tennis.htm The ages of the great majority of the women were obtained through searches of the USTA’s published national rankings for girls aged 18 and under, 16 and under, and 14 and under, which do include birthdates for all ranked. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/tennis_hall_fame.htm As do most sports hall of fame museum visitors, I went to the International Tennis Hall of Fame as an avid fan. Tennis has been an integral component of my life. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/amateurism_open_tennis.htm The United States Tennis Association, which was formed in 1881, not only was the first amateur sports governing body in the United States but is the oldest tennis association in the world. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/defects_tennis.htm Not only has lawn tennis far outstripped in popular esteem the kindred games of racquets and court tennis, but it has in less than fifteen years almost reached the level of such national pastimes as baseball and cricket. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/stop_drugs_doping.htm The International Tennis Federation (ITF) recently launched a powerful campaign warning young people of the inherent dangers of drug taking in sport. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/composite_rackets.htm Technological innovation often changes the nature of a sport, but it is rarely studied by either scholars of sport or technology. The plastic football helmet has allowed a new, more brutal style of game to emerge and severe spinal injuries have accompanied this new style. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/trends_ages_tennis_players.htm The mean age of all the women was under 19 in 1960 and was below 20 in four years during the 1960s. The mean was below 21 in 11 of 14 years prior to 1974; in contrast, the mean fell below 22 in only one of 17 years beginning in 1977. weekly 1 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/index.htm A Viewpoint on the Game, Concentration; Practice; The Racquet Head and the Preparation for the Shot, Condition, Physical and Mental; Equipment, Keep Your Eye on the Ball, Footwork and Weight Control, The General Technique of All Strokes; The Grips, The Service, The Drive, The Chop and the Slice, The Net Game: The Volley; The Overhead Smash, The Suhtle Shots: The Loh; The Half-Volley; The Drop Shot weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/tennis_game_2.htm Most people who take up tennis seem to feel that it isn't worth the effort unless they can master the game in a short time. I can only say that I have never discovered any short cut to learning tennis. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/tennis_game_3.htm Therefore, just so long as a tennis player will be called upon to play on varied court surfaces, just so long must he strive to have a real all-court game capable of meeting all conditions with the best possible style of play. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/slice_service.htm THERE ARE THREE main types of service in general use, and from them come all the other variations that are of any value. These are: The Slice, The Flat or Cannonball, The American Twist, or "Kick." weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/cannonball_service.htm The so-called Cannonball is really nothing but a slice service with no slice. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/american_twist_service.htm Here the stance is the same, but the backswing carries the racquet he ad behind the back, which is bent. The ball is tossed to the left of the head and on a line parallel with it as regards the net. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/forehand_drive.htm Few players realize that the follow-through is the thing that controls the drive. The reason so many players balloon shots into the backstop is that they swing into the ball, and as soon as they hit it they stop the racquet. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/backhand_drive.htm You step over with the right foot directly toward the left sideline, let the weight pass on to the right foot, and meet the ball on its lower lift surface. The one great difference in the backhand lies in the point where the racquet face contacts the ball. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/drive_uses.htm The main uses of the drive are: To return service, To make passing shots against the net player, To advance to the net behind a foreing shot, To hit clean winners, To open your opponent's court and manoeuvre him out of position, To get yourself out of trouble when you are foreed into bad position. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/slice_mechanics.htm The slice is definitely not a shot capable of great speed with control, since backspin, working against the air, causes the ball to rise and float. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/slice_uses.htm Notice that three of its four greatest uses are defensive and only one is for attack. Even that one is not quite as good for regular use as a drive would be. Certainly the slice's greatest value to an intelligent player lies in these uses. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/volley.htm Be content to let your racquet face make the angle, and gain the power from your opponent's shot. Volleys win by direction, placement, far more than they do by speed. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/net_position.htm Showing how the net player covers the court, and particularly the straight shot, by following the line of his own shot. Solid line-movement of players; broken line-flight of ball. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/volley_position.htm The most decisive factor in the ability to volley lies in correct position. Almost equally important is the method of reaching that position. They are far from the same thing. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/overhead_smash.htm This is the big gun of tennis. Here, more than anywhere else, brute force and sheer power pay off. I do not mean that there is no place for brains, for there is in mixing in the slow angle, but most overheads are won by the speed of the shot alone. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/half_volley_pickup.htm Its very name is confusing, and really a misnomer. It is actually a drive, not a volley at all. It is arising bounce drive played just as the ball starts to rise from the ground, and should be hit with the grip, footwork, backswing, and complete stroke production of the drive-forehand or backhand. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/drop_shot.htm This is nothing more than a very delicate slice or chop shot, made with the racquet head tilted backward about halfway between the slice and the lob techniques. It requires quite a little wrist flick, very little backswing, and a fair follow-through. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/doubles_generalities.htm A doubles team works as a unit but not quite on a line. The player on the side with the ball in front of him is a few feet closer to the net and directly in front of the ball in play while his partner covers the centre of the court from apoint ab out two feet deeper. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/doubles_open_court.htm If you decide to open up the court by going over the opposing team, the only shot is the Iob. It is difficult to drive a team away from the net by lobbing but it can be done. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/doubles_europe_us.htm Mixed doubles in Europe and in the United States are played entirely differently, and you can take your choice of which way you think is better. In Europe, the woman hangs back on the baseline, while the man charges in to the net and attempts to volIey or smash every shot he can get a racquet on. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/richard_gonzales.htm Richard Pancho Gonzales: He won the 1948 United States grass court, clay court, and hard court championships and the 1949 indoor and grass court titles, but was ignominiously defeated in many smaller tournaments. His nemesis on the Pacific Coast was Ted Schroeder, who seemed to have the Indian sign on him. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/ted_schroeder.htm Even though young in years-he is still in his twenties Ted Schroeder is a veteran in tennis. He first came into prominence as a junior before the war and followed up by winning the Singles Championship of the United States in 1942 and the doubles title several times with Jack Kramer. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/frank_parker.htm Frank Parker: This remarkable player has one of the longest and most amazingIy consistent careers in the history of United States tennis. He has held the United States Boys', Juniors', and Men's Championship crowns, has represented his country on the Davis Cup team, has played with success in Europe, and has been ranked seventeen years in the United States' First Ten. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/doherty_brothers.htm Dohertys - The Secret of Their Success and Their Influence On Lawn Tennis. It is generally believed in America that the Dohertys are superior not only to all living players, but to all the players of the past. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/tennis_players_40s.htm Although Gonzales, Schroeder, and Parker have been the Big Three of amateur tennis in the United States, there remain a good many players, young and not so young, pressing on their heels. None of them calls for extensive discussion, as none looks destined for world class, but many have interesting features that do require comment. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/tennis_players_pro_40s.htm Up to the advent of Gonzales and Parker into professional ranks this past year, the professional tennis picture has been largely dominated by the former champions of amateur tennis. The games, styles, and personalities of these great players are too well known by the average tennis fan to need analysis at this time, but a glance at what has happened to them since their days as champion is worthy of attention. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/helen_wills.htm Between 1923 and 1938 Helen Wills dominated women’s sports, winning eight Wimbledon singles titles, seven U.S. singles championships, and four French open singles crowns, not to mention scores of doubles matches and lesser tournaments and gold medals in the women’s singles and doubles competition at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/40s_women_tennis_players.htm The standard of play generally among women in the United States is higher than ever before in tennis history, but the top players today cannot be classed with such champions as Molla Mallory, Helen Wills, Helen Jacobs, Alice Marble, and Pauline Betz. Yet I feel that the type of women' s tennis is better than the relative type displayed by the men. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/history_australian_tennis.htm Although it refers to the capabilities of the 1912 Australasian Davis Cup Team, it indicates clearly the then prevailing 'amateur ethos' of tennis: I own a modest confidence in their ultimate success and an absolute certainty they will do their best, and take success or defeat as sportsmen who realise that the glory is not in the prize but in the effort. weekly 2 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/drive_return_service.htm About 80 per cent of all services received are capable of being driven back at the server. Of this percentage, only 10 per cent are capable of being hit for outright winners by the receiver. weekly 3 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/drive_make_passing_shots.htm About 80 per cent of all services received are capable of being driven back at the server. Of this percentage, only 10 per cent are capable of being hit for outright winners by the receiver. weekly 3 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/drive_forcing_shot.htm Advance! Move in with the ball as you hit it. Do not make the mistake of moving in with your body and leaving your racquet behind you so you hit the ball late. weekly 3 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/drive_hit_clean_winners.htm Play the percentage shot, which will pay off in the end. Far better than attempting to hit for winners continuously and piling up a tremendous number of errors is to use the drive intelligently. weekly 3 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/drive_opponents_court.htm Here one finds the exact reverse of the rules for use of the drive for clean winners. In using the drive as an opening or manoeuvring shot, you should never take an unnecessary chance; always allow a wide margin of safety over the net and a reasonable one to the side- and backlines. weekly 3 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/drive_out_of_trouble.htm This is the defensive drive. Let us consider the position of the player who is being run mercilessly from corner to corner. What can he do to save himself? weekly 3 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/vary_pace.htm To Vary Pace on Your Opponent by Mixing it with a Drive, and to Take Pace out of Great Speed and Slow up Tempo. weekly 3 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/return_speed_service.htm To Vary Pace on Your Opponent by Mixing it with a Drive, and to Take Pace out of Great Speed and Slow up Tempo. weekly 3 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/handle_shots.htm To HandIe Shots that catch you out of Position -ParticuIarly the ShouIder-high Bounce. weekly 3 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/advance_net.htm No player is completely well rounded without both shots in his repertoire. A player is actually only as strong as his ground strokes, no matter how great his net game is, since only behind ground strokes can he reach the net. weekly 3 sitemap http://madeinatlantis.com/tennis/40s_women_tennis_players_2.htm Gertrude Moran, or "Gorgeous Gussie," as the press calls her, is the one realIy brilliant star in the drab and dull sky of women's tennis. She has everything to make the biggest box-office attraction in the sport, and every factor but one to make the greatest woman tennis player since Alice Marble. weekly 3 sitemap