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What is a good serve? What qualities does a serve need to have for us to consider it something we can be proud of? In this episode of Tennis Quick Tips, we're talking about the qualities that make a good serve and which ones you should concentrate on to improve your own serve.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim! Thanks for listening! You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page. Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info. You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips110GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very best tips on how to "fix" your serve, I've put them all together in an ebook that you can get for free.  It's called "!0 Quick Fixes to Improve Your Serve: No Lessons Required" and you can get instant access here:http://tennisfixation.com/freeservebook MORE TENNIS FIXATION INFO:If you enj

In this episode of Tennis Quick Tips, I'm answering Lorna's question on communicating with your partner during points - how strict should we be on following the calls of "yours" and "mine," especially when the player who calls the ball is not always in the best position to hit the shot. And, as a bonus, I'll talk about verbal hindrances - what they are, what the rules say about them, how to deal with them and how to avoid committing them.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim! Thanks for listening! You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page. Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info. You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips109GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very best tips on how to "fix" your serve, I've put them all together in an ebook that you can get for free.  It&a

Which side should you return from when playing doubles?  The deuce court side?  The ad court side?  How do you and your partner decide who takes which side?  In this episode of Tennis Quick Tips, we'll discuss five factors to consider when choosing which side to return from in doubles.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim! Thanks for listening! You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page. Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info. You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips108GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very best tips on how to "fix" your serve, I've put them all together in an ebook that you can get for free.  It's called "!0 Quick Fixes to Improve Your Serve: No Lessons Required" and you can get instant access here:http://tennisfixation.com/freeservebook MORE TENNIS FIXATION INFO:I

It's time for another episode in the Simple Serve Tips Series.  This week's episode focuses on the service stance. Specifically, what is the right service stance for you. Is it the platform stance? The pinpoint stance? Or should you just hit the ball like you're swinging a frying pan? Learn all about service stances and which one you should be using in this episode.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim! Thanks for listening! You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page. Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info. You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips107GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very best tips on how to "fix" your serve, I've put them all together in an ebook that you can get for free.  It's called "!0 Quick Fixes to Improve Your Serve: No Lessons Required" and you can

What are the best targets for your volleys when you are at the net in doubles?  In this episode of Tennis Quick Tips, I tell you my three favorite targets for my volleys and I explain exactly why these targets are so effective.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim! Thanks for listening! You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page. Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info. You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips106GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very best tips on how to "fix" your serve, I've put them all together in an ebook that you can get for free.  It's called "!0 Quick Fixes to Improve Your Serve: No Lessons Required" and you can get instant access here:http://tennisfixation.com/freeservebook MORE TENNIS FIXATION INFO:If you enjoy this show, I hope you'll subscribe and download

Welcome to my Simple Serve Tips series! In this series, we're getting up close and personal with the tennis serve. We all know that there are so many moving parts to the serve and it can be hard to get a handle on all of them. So, in this series, we're going to looking at the entire serve picture - every little bit of it and how each piece can be improved upon to make your serve a better, more reliable tool in your game. In this second episode, we're talking about how to hold the racket when you serve. Specifically, I'm going to tell you exactly what type of grip you should use when you serve.How do you hold your racket when you serve? Are you using on Eastern forehand grip? A Continental grip? Do you not even know or care what grip you're using?Definitely, when you first start playing tennis, the grip you use on your serve is the grip that gets the ball in. Since the purpose of the serve is to get the point going, you initially need to make sure that you have a serve that goes in the

What is the I Formation and how do you use it in doubles without messing your own play up? In this episode of Tennis Quick Tips, I talk to tennis pro Ian Westermann of Essential Tennis. Ian explains what the I Formation is, what the Australian Formation is, and just how you can put both of those formations to work in your doubles matches. He even gives some insider tips on hand signals. Guess what? They're not as hard to use as you might think!GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim! Thanks for listening! You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page. Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info. You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips104GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very best tips on how to "fix" your serve, I've put them all together in an ebook that you can get for free.  It's called "!0 Qu

This is the first episode in my brand new series, Simple Serve Tips. There are so many moving parts to the serve and it can be hard to get a handle on all of them. So, in this series, we're going to look at the entire serve picture - every little bit of it and how each piece can be improved upon to make your serve a better, more reliable tool in your game. Maybe you're happy with your serve. Maybe you think your serve is perfect and needs no adjusting or tweaking. But even at the pro level, we see players constantly working to improve their serve. So I encourage you to listen in no matter what the quality of your serve because sometimes just re-thinking what you're doing when you're serving can have a huge impact on the quality of your serve.In this first episode in the Simple Serve Tips series, I talk about where you should stand when you hit your serve and how you can take best advantage of your serving position on the baseline.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim! Thanks for listening!

I recently started teaching adult beginner tennis.  I really don't consider myself a tennis pro, however, because I'm teaching ladies who have never played the game before and I'm teaching them the most basic aspects of tennis.  I was thinking about these beginner tennis players when I was looking through my tennis books (as I do) and was wondering what book would I have liked to have read when I was starting to play the game.  And that book is, without a doubt, Tennis Beyond Big Shots: The New Power Game by Greg Moran, and that's the book I'm reviewing for you today.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim! Thanks for listening! You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page. Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info. You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips102GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very be

What is up with people and the crazy things they do before they serve? Some of the antics we see on court these days seem less about serve preparation and more about playing mind games. In this episode of Tennis Quick Tips, we're going to talk about something we've all faced at one time or another, or at least we think we've faced it. Sometimes it's hard to be sure. We're going to talk about gamesmanship on the serve - what it is and how you can deal with it.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim! Thanks for listening! You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page. Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info. You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips101GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very best tips on how to "fix" your serve, I've put them all together in an ebook that you can get for

When you think about the mechanics of your strokes in tennis, you may spend a lot of time thinking about your grip, your racquet position, your contact point, even your footwork. But most of us don't spend much time thinking about our follow through. And I think that's because the follow through is what happens after we've already hit the ball. Failure to think about or care about the follow through is a really common error among beginners. But it can also affect advanced players. So let's talk about the follow through - what it is and why it's so important.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim!  Thanks for listening!  You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page.  Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info.  You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips100GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very best tip

It's time for another tennis rules episode (hooray!).  This week, I'm answering the question of a Tennis Fixation follower who asks about where doubles partners can stand when returning the ball.  This is a pretty interesting episode as it turns out the answer is not just about what the rules allow, but also what the best court positioning may be for the returning doubles team.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim!  Thanks for listening!  You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page.  Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info.  You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips99GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very best tips on how to "fix" your serve, I've put them all together in an ebook that you can get for free.  It's called "!0 Quick Fixes to Improve Your Serve: No Lessons Required" a

Fall tennis league is just around the corner and I am preparing so that I don't show up at that first league match, when it counts, as the person who hasn't picked up a racquet in the last two months.  If you also don't want to be that person, be sure and follow my top tips for getting league and tournament ready.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim!  Thanks for listening!  You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page.  Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info.  You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips98GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very best tips on how to "fix" your serve, I've put them all together in an ebook that you can get for free.  It's called "!0 Quick Fixes to Improve Your Serve: No Lessons Required" and you can get instant access here:http://tennisfixation.com

Have you ever played against someone who wants to win the warm-up?  They angle their volleys off for winners.  They smash their overheads back at you, or maybe back at your partner who is not even paying attention to your opponent.  Some people play the warm-up as if its some kind of mini-match that they need to win before the real match even begins.  In this episode of Tennis Quick Tips, I'll talk about how to really "win" the warm-up, how to make the most of those 5 to 10 minutes before the match begins to get yourself physically and mentally ready to play.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim!  Thanks for listening!  You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page.  Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info.  You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips97GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very best tips on how t

I don't know about you, but I have played numerous matches where, at some point, the players can't figure out what the score is. Or who's turn it is to serve. Or even what just happened. This is especially true in a doubles match where four players may come up with four different versions of what's happening on court.  So what do you do in this situation?  Continue playing with the error, even though you know it's wrong?  Start all over again?  In this episode of Tennis Quick Tips, I'll tell you how to deal with errors in your tennis matches.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim!  Thanks for listening!  You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page.  Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info.  You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips96GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very best tips on how to

How do you play mixed doubles?  Is it OK to go at the woman every time?  Is it better to mix it up?  Just what is the etiquette when playing against a man and a woman?  In this episode of Tennis Quick Tips, I'll discuss mixed doubles and just how to properly play it so you can win without coming off as a sexist jerk. GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim!  Thanks for listening!  You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page.  Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info.  You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips95GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very best tips on how to "fix" your serve, I've put them all together in an ebook that you can get for free.  It's called "!0 Quick Fixes to Improve Your Serve: No Lessons Required" and you can get instant access here:http://tennisfixation.com/frees

If the serve is the most important stroke in tennis, then the toss may be the most important part of the toss.  But a lot of players struggle with getting their toss just right.  In this episode, I talk about the need to keep your tossing arm up as long as possible.  This will help you avoid pulling off to one side when you're serving and will help to move your momentum into the serve.  I also tell you how you can practice your toss anywhere, including at home.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim!  Thanks for listening!  You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page.  Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info.  You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips94GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very best tips on how to "fix" your serve, I've put them all together in an ebook that you can get for free.  It'

If only we all had a chance to sit down with the greatest tennis players of all time to ask them just how they do what it is they do. How do they play such incredible tennis? Imagine Pete Sampras telling you how to get a great second serve. Or Andy Murray revealing how to hit a drop shot. Or doubles great Max Mirnyi explaining just how to hit someone at the net and not live to regret it. In his book, Game, Set and Match: Secret Weapons of the Worlds Top Tennis Players, tennis journalist Mark Hodgkinson gives us all of these "secrets" and a whole lot more.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim!  Thanks for listening!  You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page.  Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info.  You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips93GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very best tips on how to "f

So you think you know all about tiebreaks?  What about the Coman tiebreak?  Do you know how to play one of those?  In this episode of Tennis Quick Tips, you'll learn exactly what a Coman tiebreak is and you'll see just how easy it is to play one.  And after learning about the Coman tiebreak, you'll probably want to play one every time you have a tiebreak in a doubles match.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim!  Thanks for listening!  You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page.  Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info.  You can find them at:http://tennisfixation.com/quicktips92GET MY FREE EBOOK:If you're interested in getting my very best tips on how to "fix" your serve, I've put them all together in an ebook that you can get for free.  It's called "!0 Quick Fixes to Improve Your Serve: No Lessons Required"

Has your tennis team resorted to "stacking" the lines?  Also known as dropping the lines or flipping the lines.  If you have, then you know it can be a controversial topic for any captain and can lead to sometimes disastrous consequences.  In this episode, I'm interviewing one of my own team captains and someone who has served in that capacity for many years as well as working on the boards for a variety of tennis leagues.  Her name is Mary Baird and yes, she has stacked the lines.  But she's been able to do it in a positive way that not only keeps the team from disintegrating but actually produces results.  So listen in to learn all about the pros and cons of stacking the lines.GET THE SHOW NOTES:Hi, it's Kim!  Thanks for listening!  You can leave me your comments or suggestions by going to the show notes for this episode and leaving a comment at the bottom of the page.  Those show notes also include an edited transcript, links to resources and tons of other tennis info.  You can fin