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Most of these tennis tips are tennis instructional articles that Tennis Coaching Expert Jay Davern was commissioned to write for the Australian Tennis Magazine. Jay Davern was the Chief Instructional Writer for Australian Tennis Magazine before moving from Australia to Hong Kong. Jay wrote his own 2-page column entitled “lessons from the pros” for each publication issue.

The above picture is the May 2006 issue of Australian Tennis Magazine lessons from the pros column about “Footwork: All the Right Moves” leading in to the clay court season.

“Don’t be LEFT Out in the Cold” is about how to play against left handers. Rafael Nadal had only one one grand slam at the time: the 2005 Roland Garros title the first of 12 in Paris for Rafa.

Tennis Tips:

  1. How To Concentrate and Achieve FOCUS
  2. How To Improve YOUR Return of Serve“Many Happy Returns” 
  3. How To Gain THE Edge Over YOUR Opponents“The Changing Game of Martina Hingis”
  4. How To Use Video For YOUR Game“Visual Value”
  5. How To Win More Tennis Matches – “Home Ground Advantage”
  6. How To Improve YOUR Consistency“A Class on Consistency”
  7. How To Play YOUR Best Tennis “The Best of the Best”
  8. How To Defeat YOUR Opponent “Battle of the Backhands”
  9. How To Improve YOUR Game Plan “A Sniff of Victory”
  10. How To Attack YOUR Opponent“Net Results”
  11. How To Use YOUR Brain To Win“Brain Gains”
  12. How To Use Doubles To Improve YOUR Singles Game“Double Your Odds”
  13. How To Draw a Short Ball from YOUR Opponent “Double A”
  14. How To Keep Winning Like Roger Federer “Roger – Perfect 10?”
  15. How To Improve YOUR Serve – “Need to Check-in for a Service?”
  16. How To Perfect YOUR Tennis Game – “Perfect Practices”
  17. How To Improve YOUR Volleys – “On The Fly”
  18. How To Play Approach Shots – “Build Your Best Approach”
  19. Science is the Key to YOUR Tennis – “The Science of Progress”
  20. How To Train for Tennis – “Power To You”
  21. How To Improve YOUR Tennis – “Evaluate to Elevate”
  22. How To Hit with Topspin – “Spin or Be Spun”
  23. How To Play an Angle Volley – “Searching For a New Angle”
  24. How To Play a Slice Backhand – “Slice of Heaven”
  25. How To Improve YOUR Footwork“Footwork: All the Right Moves”
  26. How To Play Left Handers“Don’t be Left Out in the Cold”
  27. Learn How To Volley in Tennis
  28. Learn How To Serve in Tennis *Updated
  29. How To WIN Tennis Matches
  30. So WHY didn’t Andy Roddick Win? #1
  31. So WHY didn’t Andy Roddick Win? #2