Learning how to play tennis can be either a wonderful or a very frustrating experience. It depends on whether your approach and expectations to the game are realistic and whether your coach and his way of teaching the game of tennis are the best for your starting level of play.
When you start learning how to play tennis you probably don’t know much about it. You’ve seen how good players play and they seem so effortless and the game seems easy. You decide that you want to try it too and enroll in one of the lessons at your local club.
There are 2 main areas when you are still learning how to play tennis:
– Technique (footwork, body, arm action)
– Tactics
And here are the main mental points for these two areas of your beginning lessons:
1. Be aware when you learn how to play tennis you are soon overwhelmed with lots of information. This can cause you to lose focus on most important things depending on your coach’s instructions. Listen to your coach and do as he/she tells you to. Sometimes it’s your arm movement, sometimes focusing on the feel of the racquet, sometimes on your movement. Be aware of what...