How to prepare for tennis?
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if you've played other sports before, such as golf, baseball, you'll notice that the swinging motions are the same. if you are comfortable with these sports, your tennis swing should come naturally.  Footwork is also a main part of the game.  As long as you have good footwork, can move across the court quickly, it should give you an easier time making the team.  Anyone can play tennis with some dignity if they have a decent swing and footwork.
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Spelling correctly so that you'll have good grades and be eligible to play (if you're still in school).  \n\nStretch your throwing arm well, soft toss or hit off of a tee, jog a lap around the field, sprints from first to second base, field grounders, field fly balls.  My first softball practice is this weekend and I CAN'T WAIT!  Good luck.
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If possible\n1. Ask your parents to find a coach for you\n2. Do off courts exercises to improve your strength, flexibility, etc.\n3. Watch matches and see how the stars serve\n4. Read advices from websites like www.tennis.com\n5. Keep practising \n6. Avoid injury from over practising\n7. Believe you can serve better
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Work out and start pushing your self when you are sprinting.  Thats what you do in tennis.
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Just listing stuff on what is most likely required to be on a team,...high school team....\n\nYou need to know how to play tennis. To know at least the basics, not all the special techniques, but like forehand, backhand, overhead smash, serve (two ways to do it), etc. You should know how to do it and when do it. Also, you can't just have the knowledge of tennis, you could study and read about all you want, but you need to know how to play it. Are you able to run for the balls, able to hit them back? You need to practice, practice, practice. \n\nAnd for you, since you are a beginner, you should be practicing. Especially if you want to get on a team. And yes, preferably, get a proffessional to help you, or some lessons from an experienced player. You could watch tennis matches and read about it to know about the moves and tatics, etc. \n\nIt's not guaranteed that you will make the team, but it's still a chance that you would get in. The time, now and before the tryouts, just keep practicing...\n\nIf you want any more tips, just ask. ^^
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Ha ha! My greatest weakness in tennis is serving too! I suggest to keep on practicing. I practiced that for a few weeks and became steadily better. The correct way is to:\n1. Hold you racket and tennis ball, racket in your "writing" hand and tennis ball in the other,\n2. Swing your racket half a circle back, with a lot of power, and\n3. Quickly through your tennis ball in the air.\n\nYour swing with the racket should give you power. By the time you're done with the swing, you should instantly throw the tennis ball in the air. Thsi gives the serve more power form the swing. If you swing your racket and then throw the tennis ball in the air too late, your power from the swing will be gone and it will be a useless gesture. Hope that helps!
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How you practice is the Key.  Make sure you can keep you mind on what your doing.  Line up at the targets don't just hit balls.\n\nA good practice session can be an hour\n20 minutes range\n20 minutes putting\n20 minutes chipping
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It's hard to prepare for baseball when the weather won't co-operate. I live in Canada, so I know what you're going through. \n\nThe first thing would be to get a rubber ball, about the same size of a baseball and find a piece of wall somewhere. (The gym at a school is good, or anyother place like that where they'll allow you to throw it against the wall.). And just throw the ball against the wall and let it come back to you. Field it properly, practising positioning of your feet and such. It gives you great practice on anticipation, because you don't exactly know how the ball is going to come back to you. It's also good for short-hops, something you need to be able to handle as a first baseman. The throwing also helps you get your arm in shape, even though it might not be a real baseball; the repeatative motion will help strengthen the muscles you don't use all winter. And as for batting; it depends really on what you need to work on. Practising your swing can be done anywhere with enough room, and if you want to fine tune a little; swing in slow-motion in front of a mirror. Watch where your feet and hands are going and if your opening your hips properly. Hand-eye can be done at a gym too. Use a tee (Like in tee-ball. Retarded sounding, I know, but it works). And use wiffle balls or street hockey balls. Unless you got a batting cage handy (An indoor one, obviously), that's really all I can suggest.
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Dish before you swish. Always try to get your teammates good shots before yourself, but don't be afraid to step up and take the big shot. Get your fundamentals in passing, dribbling, and physical conditioning in order. Be a leader vocally, by example, and by your presence on the court. Memorize all your team's plays. Always believe in yourself and in your team and no matter how impossible it seems, NEVER EVER give up on a game, always come back fighting on both ends of the court.
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The older you are currently the harder it will be,  many of the professional tennis players on the circuit today started as young as 5 and have been having coaching and training hard ever since.\n\nThis does not mean that you cannot make it though, you just need exceptional self belief and personal drive. If you want it badly enough, anything is possible!\n\nOn a practical note I would firstly recommend joining a tennis club if you havern't done so already. Get some coaching which is essential to helping you improve your technique and always try and play people that are better than you and will challenge your game.\n\nEnter tournaments as other people have mentioned and basically strive to play as frequently as possible.\n\nFinally you constantly want to set realistic but challenging goals.\n\nGood Luck! \nIf you believe you're going to make it, I believe you will too! Let me know your name and I'll watch out for you.
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ok where to start, the basics to a serve are basically the same for most people and even the pros.\n\nto start off, you want your back foot to behind your front foot. for example, if your right handed, youre left foot would be in front of your body and your right foot would almost be behind. if you watch all the pros, they basically all do this and it gives you a lot of body rotation. you can either choose to slide your feet in or keep them there, whichever is more comfortable. \n\nalso, you want to be hitting it with preferably a continental serve(you can look it up for pictures of it if you dont know what it is). you can easily kick serve with it or get a nice flat serve if you flick your wrists. pros already get a lot of speed just by their arm motion and the flick of their wrists, which is one of the hardest things to learn.\n\nlearn where to toss the serve so that it is comfortable for you and is best for whichever serve you are doing. \n\nthats all i can think of at the moment.... so good luck. if you can find videos of aggasi serving, it is a nice solid serve to learn off of, otherwise federer's is nice as well.
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The full rules of tennis are administered by the International Tennis Federation and can be found on the ITF Website. \nhttp://www.itftennis.com/abouttheitf/\n A basic guide is currently available on the BBC website. \nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/rules_and_equipment/4222290.stm
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I am going to assume that you already know how to play and practice every day(because that is what pros do).\n\nMake sure your health and nutrition are in check.\n\nJoin a local league. Once you can dominate that, go to regional competitions. Once you have mastered that, you can start going to USTA futures events. Woek your way up through the ranks. Then challenger events. Do well enough in those and you may get a wild card into a main draw in an official ATP event. \n\nIf you have a lot of money, you can attempt to bribe someone you know who has a challenger event to give you a wildcard. Even if you lose the first round, which you probably will no matter how good you are, you get enough ranking points to play in challengers for a while.\n\nI dont know how old you are. If you are in high school, one of the major problems with American tennis is that young people try to go straight to the pros and ignore the valuable resource that is college tennis. If you are good enough to go pro, you are good enough for a tennis scholarship, meaning you are getting four years of college education and top quality coaching for four years for free. You will also be able to get some buzz and contacts for your career. And, that way, if you have a bad injury or decide that you dont want to do tennis, you have something to fall back on.
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I dont think too much about, but u should try to remember this 4 lines from the poem "I Have Decided" by Wes Beavis:\n             "I may be a success \n              Or learn from my mess\n\n              I may be applauded \n              Or go unrewarded"\nJust play the game. If u dont win it doesn't matter just think that u got another change to practice your tennis.
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http://tennis.com/yourgame/instructionvideos/index.aspx\nhttp://www.humankinetics.com/products/showproduct.cfm?isbn=073606480X&associate=4190&associate=4190\nGo to those two links and there you go
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Personally, I'd prefer an instructor who could sensibly explain anything he is asking you to do, but sometimes that isn't always the case.\nSometimes the teacher's suggestion really is not sensible, but it could still work. For example, some tell you to "peel an onion" to hit a slice serve. This really doesn't make technical sense, but it may get you to move your racket head across the ball, which is required for a slice serve.\nOr he may suggest that you need to jump to hit a serve, which again is not really correct. Your momentum carries you off the ground as you hit, but you don't jump and then hit. However, it could help to think about jumping if you hadn't been using your legs.\nI also realized a long time ago that, in terms of strategy, an "incorrect" plan may be better than no plan at all. I.e., doing the wrong thing well can cause you to focus confidently on that strategy, causing you to do better than if you remained confused.\nThat's the best I can do. Good question.
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like they said earlier, bend your knees a heck of a lot. but, you will need to hit the ball in front of your body because if you hit it close, you are going to mis-hit it or flail it long. try setting up two wooden poles along the sides of the net and then set a string about 2-3 feet above the net connected to the poles. get a ball machine or have somebody feed you a lot of balls and just practice hitting it through that "window" that it creates and adjust as necessary. if you are hitting the ball over the string every time, aim lower and don't go low to high on your swing as much. if you are hitting the ball in the net, check the angle of your racket face when you hit and bend your knees more to get below the ball. if you are hitting them long, come over the ball a bit more to get more topspin or just don't hit the ball so hard. all it takes is a hitting of a lot of tennis balls and after you finally find your comfort zone in hitting low, hard balls over the net, you will be one heck of a good tennis player.\n\np.s. hitting the ball low and hard over the net is not advised. it is a very high-risk shot. however it might have a great feel to it and you will have awesome winners, unless you are really good at it, it will probably not win you many matches with tough players that can get it back. but it is always fun to hit and is a great approach shot for coming in and taking volleys.