Ten and Under Tennis Lessons: Focus on Mastery

Ten and Under Tennis Lessons: Focus on Mastery: What is it that keeps some players improving and others plateau or fall behind? Is it that these players are more talented or do they expen...

How Do We Love Our Players?

You and your tennis practice: It’s a love story for the ages. Think about it. You are your practice.   Those daily practices bring fullfillment and mastery. Side by side always. In sickness and in health. For richer or for poorer. This is a legit, serious, long-term relationship.

Love takes shape in a lot of different ways. But no matter how it starts, there are a few things you can count on. For one, love is going to have its ups and downs. It’s going to get rocky. You may yell things you don’t mean like, “I don’t care if there is tennis tonight, I want to go play with my friends at the pool.”
But despite the hard times, if you work together, you and your practice will last the course of time. So carve your name and your practice in a heart in some wet cement. Take some pictures and post them on Instagram—#reallove. And, when you feel like you are losing your passion for your practice, try out a couple of these tips on how to love playing tennis forever.

1. Enter a Non-Elimination Tournament throught www.mesatennis.com
    This is an opportunity to play as many as ten players for three hours in a non-pressure environment.

2. Participate in a USTA playday

3. Create a tennis court in your backyard or driveway

4. Join a Junior Team Tennis Team

5. Be a part of an afterschool tennis club/class if your school is a part of the USTA schools program