Adaptive Mastery: Sierzputowski's Strategy for Dynamic Tennis Training

Key Points

• Constantly vary your drills in practice, hitting to different targets and areas of the court, remembering to include point based challenges
• “Tennis is not Golf” The serve is the only shot in tennis you are not influenced by your opponent
• You have to learn to adapt to different situations in a match by practicing in a way that uses variety and unpredictability
• Players can feel different on any given day
• Some days, all they can give is 3 or 4 out of 10
• Monotonous practice sessions that are the same every day in terms of drills and exact hours played, can burn players out and cause injury
• Mix up the times of training sessions, so you’re not always practicing at the same time
• Guide your players to “solutions” by using variety in how you structure ball feeding and practice sessions