Nerves, hebejebes, yips whatever you call it most of us have felt the pressure of trying to win at some stage. As a regular club tennis player I have experienced this on numerous occasions, most recently in the men’s double final at my local club. I found myself becoming more and more frustrated, resulting in [...]

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When watching the pros play I always try and pick up a few tips to experiment with.  During the recent APT Tour finals it was mentioned that Federer always keeps his head still when playing his strokes, unlike many of the other top players who rotate their heads with their bodies. I have now tried [...]

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As an average club player who plays 2 to 3 times a week I can only dream of playing like Andy Murray. None the less when on court I find myself trying the same shots, slice, kicking serve and even the squash like defensive shot. I haven’t yet plucked up the courage to try and [...]

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The basic purpose of a Tennis ball machine isn’t to recreate a tennis match but as a substitute for a tennis partner, who consistently plays the shots. Dependent on how advanced the machine is, topspin, backspin, ball depth can all be altered to give a good work out.
A Tennis ball machine will give you consistent [...]

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Murray now seeded sixth in the world after winning his first ATP masters title against Djokovic is also seeded 6 at the Olympic Games and will face Yen-Hsun of Taipei, who is currently ranked 74 in the world.
Second seed Rafael Nadal is a potential quarter final opponent for Murray, with Novak Djokovic, a possible semi-final opponent.

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Roger Federer is under increasing pressure from his biggest rival Rafael Nadal to keep his world number one ranking. Federer has been at the top of the world rankings for 234 weeks. In January Federer was 1445 ranking points ahead of Nadal, now there is less than 300.

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The 22-year-old Scot who has not played a singles match since April 2007 and is currently not ranked in the world for singles said “I would like to give it a go, and I thought after what I did last year it was probably my best chance. It would be a dream come true.”
Murray has tasted success at [...]

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World number three, 20-year-old Serbian Novak Djokovic told BBC’s Inside Sport programme: ”In the UK a lot of kids are a little bit spoiled. If you have perfect conditions and everything you want, you don’t know the real meaning of tennis and you don’t work as hard as you are supposed to. You do not have [...]

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Robert Dee, 21, recorded a victory in the qualifying section of a futures event in Spain. Normally this would be nothing to get too excited about but when you consider this young British tennis player has earned the title of the worst player in the world after losing his first 54 professional matches you can understand why this would [...]

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After 30 years of sponsorship, one of the longest in Tennis history, Stella Artois are ending their support for the pre-Wimbledon grass court tournament held every summer at Queens’s Club, London.
The Championship more commonly known as the Stella Artois which takes place on 9th - 15th June 2008 will be the final time it is sponsored [...]

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