Playing Rubbish? Transform Your Tennis in 5 Minutes Using This System

Playing Rubbish? Transform Your Tennis in 5 Minutes Using This System
We all have bad tennis days. The days where it seems everything is wrong. Your timing isn't there, your footwork feels slow and heavy, you feel late on everything and you make poor tactical decisions.
On those days, it's very easy to throw in the towel and give up.
But, there are always solutions...
So how can we turn it around on those rubbish days and transform our tennis when we're playing badly?
Around 80% of the time, you'll be playing at a similar level.
Around 10% of the time, you'll be playing great, close to or at your best.
And around 10% of the time, you'll have those bad tennis days.
The first step in fixing it, is understanding that it's normal to have off days and start looking for solutions.
Tracking The Ball
Not watching the ball properly will impact our games negatively even when we're having a normal tennis day. However, when we're playing rubbish, it's even more important to really focus in on the tennis ball and track it with real quality.
This means we're tracking it off the opponent's strings, tracking it as it passes the net, tracking it as it bounces on our side, and of course, tracking the ball onto and off our own strings.
Zone in on the tennis ball, and it will start to seem much bigger than it actually is.
Force Your Footwork
On bad tennis days, our footwork goes out the window. So really work hard with your feet and try to kick yourself into gear by being a more intense player using your footwork to the best of your abilities. This means getting behind the ball, adjusting for bad bounces, and staying light on your feet.
Play The Percentages
When we're playing bad, going for high-risk, low-reward shots, is insanity.
We need all the help we can get, and that means we need the percentages in our favour.
So play high percentage tennis. Take the net out of play by increasing the trajectory of your shots, eliminating those useless net errors. Play mainly crosscourt when you're rallying from the baseline, this is the high-percentage shot. And focus on making ball after ball, which can really help you turn things around on those bad days. After all, who doesn't start to feel the ball better after you groove your strokes over and over again?
Breathing
Holding your breath is a great way to increase tension in your body, reduce your energy levels and create stiff shots.
Focus on exhaling prior to and during your strike zones, which will help you to stay loose and relaxed with your body.
Video Timeline:
00:00 - We all have rubbish tennis days
01:07 - Track the ball like an eagle
02:50 - Force your footwork
04:54 - Play the percentages
06:34 - Remember to exhale
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[@willkittwk]

Great advice a lot of it revolves around focus and energy. Been there. I have yelled at myself for being lazy and have given myself a good kick in the ass many a time.😂

[@TopTennisTrainingOfficial]

We all need to kick ourselves up the ass every now and then 😂

[@willkittwk]

@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial For sure 😂💯

[@PrecisionPointTennis]

Wow, just what I needed to hear BEFORE my match today! I did everything you said here wrong and now I know what to do on those bad days! I played a top junior from Australia and had 40-love on my serve, then love 40 on his and on and on…I lost the first set 6-0! Then I broke him twice in second set but couldn’t capitalise on my game points on my own serve! Damn, I wish I saw this before my match! Now I know!!! Cu in crete soon!!! Thanks again for stellar instruction and advice 🏆🎾🙏

[@TopTennisTrainingOfficial]

Vamos 💪

[@matteobenedetti3203]

Hi Simon, I really love your technique so that watching you playing tennis makes me learn so much. I think you should post videos of you just hitting shots applying the theory explained in other videos… I think people like me will appreciate so much! Thanks for your work!

[@sefermemisoglu3800]

I am delighted to see this nice coaching lesson. It is exactly what I do when I play tennis without good sleeping nights; trying to hit harder and flatter, testing the opposite statistically save margins and lazy footwork. This lesson will be at my ear next time I feel heavy on the court. I would like to see a lecture about high balls that are hard for a one-handed backhander. For instance, my ball gets a good spin and is quite high, stays in the lines and surely clears the net but then I become prey at the hands of my opponent with the ball having no effect. Thanks so much, Simon!!!

[@TopTennisTrainingOfficial]

I’ll keep that lesson in mind for the near future 🙏

[@Chris90.]

regrouping, and allocating all focus toward tracking the ball definitely helped

[@TopTennisTrainingOfficial]

The most important aspect of tennis, and the most overlooked 😂

[@Chris90.]

it really is a basic, yet crucial aspect that gets forgotten. just keep your eye on the ball.... ESPECIALLY all the way through contact@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial

[@watcher687]

Lazy feet demonstration was great, Simon.😊 Eye opening really!

[@TopTennisTrainingOfficial]

Many thanks 🙏

[@JGtennistraining]

My son is starting learning about how to breathing techniques and I must that it does work in many ways.

[@NikosNtounas]

I had one of these days today.. nothing seemed to work. Thanks for this video. I will just keep trying..

[@TopTennisTrainingOfficial]

Never give up, never surrender 💪

[@DeltoidBeast]

Good advice! Very useful.

[@TopTennisTrainingOfficial]

My pleasure 🙏

[@Luis-gm7ik]

Absolutely right.

[@TopTennisTrainingOfficial]

Thanks for watching

[@user-dv4vg6ee7l]

Thank you coach Simon! Good lesson.

[@TopTennisTrainingOfficial]

My pleasure 🙏

[@muhammada.u.h5581]

Thank you for the useful tips!

[@TopTennisTrainingOfficial]

My pleasure 🙏

[@user-ie8gs5jy9s]

Always love your content and guides. Thank you Simon.

[@user-ie8gs5jy9s]

Thank you Simon for your work ! Great video 👍

[@SATANICUM666]

Super. Thank you for advice

[@RobManser77]

Great advice, thank you.

[@TopTennisTrainingOfficial]

My pleasure 🙏

[@alifaraj3611]

Smashed the like button!

[@TopTennisTrainingOfficial]

💥

[@pakchu2]

Give it all you have, as far as energy and footwork, and take full advantage of the rests in between changeovers

[@michelmarceau8115]

Very helpful advices. Thx. Id tue Pure Aero VS ur match play racket or u still use ur Dunlop racket. Thx again for the very helpful Review

[@mattiastennis]

A great video and what you suggest here are things which EVERYONE CAN DO and practical queues. To add to this in order to get into the right level for matches and especially tournament matches what Warmups besides Bands and Jogs do you do for yourself before even stepping out to play?

[@TopTennisTrainingOfficial]

A solid 30 minute hit at least, an hour if possible and a few tiebreaks to get into point mode. That’s match day. Plus lots of visualisation to prepare my mind for the task at hand

[@mattiastennis]

@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial Problem is with a number of tournaments there is never any spare courts for practice or practice courts available but I usually just try and find a wall to hit against

[@ox_MF_box]

Love your videos

[@TopTennisTrainingOfficial]

Thanks for your support!!

[@willkittwk]

I'm not much into grunting but it does help you to expel your breath while hitting. It's just a little too cave man for me while playing a graceful game like tennis. I try to emulate Roger Federer ( try is the operative) who is the epitome of athletic strength and grace.😂💯💪

[@TopTennisTrainingOfficial]

Federer was the maestro of breathing efficiently

[@willkittwk]

@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial Yep everything he did was masterful.

[@Laifeide]

⁠@@TopTennisTrainingOfficialwhy he doesn’t sweat that much and face expressions not in pain like other top players when hitting?

[@Prosto.Dastan]

So how to increase those days when you play your best?

[@TopTennisTrainingOfficial]

Improve the fundamentals of the game, and become a more solid player. The better you become, the better your base level will be. If your technique is rock solid, and you build up your fitness, your game will be rock solid

[@Prosto.Dastan]

@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial God bless you