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Summary: Finding a tennis coach and playing partner will help your game. Buy good equipment, work on your fitness and watch the pros. Learn how to play beginner tennis from our expert instructor in this free sports video.
Coach Hill has been teaching tennis, squash, racquetball and golf professionally for about ten years. He has always been a lifetime sports and fitness enthusiast. Coach Hill lives in...read more
"Okay, resources; what do you need to improve your game? You're going to need some tennis balls, you need a racquet, but I think you need a concept of the game. So, trying to find a coach will help. If you've got somebody in your family like a parent, a brother or a sister to practice with. Getting these Nerf balls so you can hit against the wall, and also tennis balls and find a good wall to practice against. But when you go on the Internet, there's a lot of great resources and there's a lot of videos you can watch to watch the great pros technique; how they do stuff. You want to get fitter. You want to join the USTA and get Tennis magazine. If you do stuff like that, you'll start reading and watching and knowing th game better and better. Plus you'll enjoy it more. So, if you ever go to a pro tournament, that's unbelievable to watch the pros play and practice and of course, there's a lot of matches on television. So, the most important thing is to just get out and start hitting; whether it's drop and hit or whether it's hitting the wall. Try to find a good coach; somebody that you like working with and then find some other people to practice with and I think if you can do all that, your game will once again improve pretty quickly."
eHow Article: Beginner Tennis: Resources