Tennis Strategy and Tactics
Tennis strategy is one of the four main areas of the game – besides technique, physical preparation and mental game.
The broadest definition of tennis strategy is using your advantages – natural and learned ones against your opponent's weaknesses in order to gain advantage and win more points. Your advantages and your way of playing the game are called game type.
Another view on strategy is that it's an overall plan how to play against a certain opponent on a specific court.
Tennis tactics, on the other hand, are more detailed ways of achieving this general strategy. If your main strategy is playing aggressively from the baseline, your tactics to do that can be different.
One player's tactics may be to use as many inside out forehands as possible (like Jim Courier used to play), and the other player's tactics may be to hit the balls on the rise and put pressure on the opponent (like Andre Agassi plays).
So this is using the same strategy (aggressive baseliner) but with different tactics.
Even smaller units in tennis strategy and tactics are tactical decisions. These are actually the building blocks of a single point. Every time the ball comes over the net, you need to decide.
Tennis Strategy and Tactics
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Monday, November 09, 2009
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Tennis strategy is one of the four main areas of the game – besides technique, physical preparation and mental game.
The broadest definition of tennis strategy is using your advantages – natural and learned ones against your opponent's weaknesses in order to gain advantage and win more points. Your advantages and your way of playing the game are called game type.
Another view on strategy is that it's an overall plan how to play against a certain opponent on a specific court.
Tennis tactics, on the other hand, are more detailed ways of achieving this general strategy. If your main strategy is playing aggressively from the baseline, your tactics to do that can be different.
One player's tactics may be to use as many inside out forehands as possible (like Jim Courier used to play), and the other player's tactics may be to hit the balls on the rise and put pressure on the opponent (like Andre Agassi plays).
So this is using the same strategy (aggressive baseliner) but with different tactics.
Even smaller units in tennis strategy and tactics are tactical decisions. These are actually the building blocks of a single point. Every time the ball comes over the net, you need to decide.