“How Can I Miss That?”
You miss a shot, and you get frustrated. “How can I miss that?” “What am I even doing out here?” “Has all my practice been for nothing?” It’s an inner spiral that’s effected many...
The Power of Patience
If you can keep the ball heavy enough, deep enough, and, most importantly, in the court, for longer than your opponent, you’re almost always going to win. Most tennis points end not with strokes...
A Shot’s Probability Distribution
Tennis is random. Each shot is best understood not as a particular result (winner, error, rally ball, etc.), but as a probability distribution of possible results, from which a particular result is chosen at...