The First Point Of The Match Was An Ambush
Wednesday, 06 September 2023
G’day From New York, It was the first point of the match. Frances Tiafoe hit his first serve wide, and Ben Shelton took up a regular return position for the 2nd serve. It was your average, standard, run-of-the-mill start of the match. Until it wasn’t. Shelton waited until the toss went up so Tiafoe couldn’t
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Do match winners go to the net more than match losers?
Friday, 18 December 2020
G’day! You can’t go to the net in today’s game, right? The conversation typically goes like this… The racquets are more powerful than they used to be. Much easier to rip passing shots past the player who is approaching the net. The latest strings generate massive amounts of topspin, which enables passing shots to get up
- Published in Approach & Volley, Strategy Courses
Serve +1. Imagine taping your thumb to your forefinger…
Monday, 06 July 2020
G’day, I want to give you a sneak peek of what’s under the hood of the 25 Golden Rules of Singles Strategy. Rule #3 introduces the concept of the powerful Serve +1 strategy. This terminology was first introduced in this course back in 2014 and it has now become mainstream as players, coaches, and commentators
- Published in Strategy Courses
Getting Tight Course = Staying Calm In The Big Moments
Wednesday, 10 June 2020
G’day, The mental/emotional course Getting Tight is growing into a major force in global tennis. It teaches players at all levels of the game how to better control their emotions by focusing their minds on match strategy. So, where in the world are players who are studying mental/emotional/strategic courses? About half are from the USA, and
- Published in Getting Tight, Strategy Courses
Getting Tight Sneak Peek: 5-Step Between Point Routine
Tuesday, 09 June 2020
G’day, I first met Andre Agassi in Monte Carlo in December 2017. I had been on Novak Djokovic’s coaching team since January 2017, and Andre and Radek Stepanek had just come on board. We were doing a week-long training camp to bring the whole team together, including the fitness guys, to prepare Novak for 2018.
- Published in Andre Agassi, Monte Carlo, Strategy Courses
Getting Tight Sneak Peek: We Are All In The Same Boat
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
G’day, You look to the other side of the court in the warm-up and assess your opponent. Forehand looks fine. Backhand seems solid. They don’t seem to be moving too fast so maybe you can form a strategy around running them side-to-side. Here are some questions for you… Do they have a better read on
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Getting Tight Sneak Peak: Don’t Play The Resume
Monday, 18 May 2020
G’day, Sometimes matches are over before they even start. You look at the draw and you see that you have to play the No.5 seed or the No. 10 seed, or the defending champion, or the No. 1 seed this year. Match over right there. You convince yourself that the opponent must be really, really
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“Getting Tight” Fixes Getting Angry
Thursday, 07 May 2020
Getting Tight Promo Video G’day, Tennis is a sport of errors. Professional matches average around 70% errors and that number increases at the recreational level for both adults and juniors. Those errors are not well received by players. Not well received at all… The negativity first gains a foothold as frustration, and straight-up
- Published in Getting Tight, Strategy Courses
Getting Tight Review: Coaching Mental + Tactical Together
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
G’day, Three bedrooms vs. one living room. In one room of the house lives all the emotions that you feel in a tennis match. There are good feelings, but there are also nerves, frustration, anger, and disappointment. Putting all of these elements in isolation – alone in one room – is not a good
- Published in Getting Tight, Strategy Courses
Getting Tight: Brookes Gives It Two Thumbs Up
Friday, 24 April 2020
Getting Tight has been out now for about a week and a half and the early adopters are consuming the course. Brookes Byrd, from Sacramento, sent me this review yesterday and was nice enough to agree to share it with everyone. So let’s go through Brookes’ review and see what she thinks about Getting Tight.
- Published in Strategy Courses
Getting Tight: Leora’s Course Review
Friday, 17 April 2020
Improve your perspective. Getting Tight has had a very successful launch week, so a big “thank you” to all the early adopters! Around 60% of sales have been in the U.S, with the other 40% from 14 countries around the globe. Leora, from San Francisco, purchased the course on Monday and sent Jeff and I
- Published in Getting Tight, Strategy Courses
Getting Tight Sneak Peek: Are You At 75% Of Your Potential?
Sunday, 12 April 2020
G’day, Do you really know who you are as a tennis player? In other words, do you have a crystal clear mission of your ideal game style, and do you stick to it in the heat of competition? Most players have a general idea of what they want to do, but the blueprint
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Getting Tight Sneak Peek: Can’t Close Out A Lead
Saturday, 11 April 2020
G’day, Very excited about the launch of Getting Tight in just two days! You will be able to purchase it Monday morning at 8:00 am US Central time. This video is focused on players that start well, get ahead, and then for whatever reason can’t close out a lead. It’s almost like they start playing
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Getting Tight Sneak Peek: The Spaniard Factor
Friday, 10 April 2020
G’day, Very excited about the launch of Getting Tight in just three days! You will be able to purchase it Monday morning at 8:00 am US Central time. A key theme that runs right through the 27 video chapters and 325 “Mini-Lessons” is a real-life case study of Jeff’s semi-final match of the US National
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Getting Tight Preview: Opponent Awareness
Thursday, 09 April 2020
G’day, Today’s two-minute sneak peek under the hood of Getting Tight, which launches in four days, is all about joining the dots between the mental, emotional and strategic aspects of competition. Jeff Greenwald, a former No. 1 player in the world in men’s 35’s, had just taken the first set against Francisco Clavet, who is
- Published in Strategy Courses
Getting Tight Preview: Anger & Frustration
Wednesday, 08 April 2020
G’day, Hands up if you find yourself getting too emotional in matches? In particular, hands up if the emotions that you feel are frustration and anger? All over the world, at all levels of our sport, this is a universal predicament. It is quite possibly the most common way we express our emotions negatively on
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