Serve is Out = Great Return, Explained
Your opponent hits their serve long. “Out,” you say, as you swing at the ball anyway. Lo and behold, the shot you produce on this return, a return that, by all accounts, should be...
1 Trick to Eliminate 90% of Net Misses
Tour level players hit surprisingly high over the net. The amount of net clearance they’re getting is pretty difficult to see from the typical broadcast view: the bird’s eye camera, and as such, I...
Your Brain Will Trick You (Into Missing)
Sometimes, it’s amazing now “lucky” Novak Djokovic gets. He hits line after line without missing, appearing to aim to targets not even 6-inches wide, and yet never hitting the ball out. But what’s really...
Develop Your Coaching Immune System
Due to modern information technology, you have literally thousands of hours of tennis coaching at your fingertips, at all times. Go on YouTube and search for something as simple as “tennis serve,” and you...
Emma Raducanu’s Elite, Explosive Forehand
There are many ways to hit the wide forehand, but Emma Raducanu’s way is the best way. At Fault Tolerant Tennis, we believe in finding our most efficient biomechanics for a particular swing, and...
Battle of the Girls who ATTACK
We’ve talked before about how, in singles tennis, shots that you can execute at less than 80% are essentially useless – you’ll lose too many points from missing those shots for whatever small offensive...
Leylah Fernandez – The Roger Federer of the WTA
Sensational 18-year-old Leylah Fernandez stands at 5’ 6’’ 104 lbs (168 cm 47 kg). Her opponent in the 4th round of the 2021 US Open was former grand slam champion Angelique Kerber, standing at...
Heal Your Body In Motion
You’re out on the court and something hurts. Maybe it’s your elbow, maybe your knee, maybe your heel. Don’t panic. Pain is a part of life, especially when it comes to athletics. It is...
The Forehand “C” – Myths vs Reality
The “C” swing path on the forehand does exist, but I’m not a fan of its current mainstream classification as a first principle of the forehand, because it isn’t one. The shape and manner...
The Mystery of the Continental Grip
Look at the two grips above. By some definitions, both can be considered the “continental” grip. Both have the index-knuckle on bevel 2 (marked by the yellow line), and yet, in spite of that,...