Styrling Strother is an innovative tennis coach who trains junior players and adults to transform the way they practice and think about the match court. He is a Tennis Performance Trainer (TPT) with the International Tennis Performance Association (ITPA), a PTR Professional Coach, a best-selling author, and the founder of Styrling Strother Tennis, a player development program located in Cary, North Carolina.
This episode will totally shift your practice habits, and inject fun into your doubles matches.
Styrling shares some transformational ideas with me in this episode.
- Why you should NOT look at the ball after you hit.
- A new way to think about the game score that helps you maintain focus and concentration (Momentum Scoring System).
- Innovative doubles drills that will better help you win matches.
- What you should be thinking when you make an error.
- Why opponent-based thinking is the #1 thing to learn for tennis players (and why it’s so hard).
We also discuss his new book, The Art of Winning Tennis, which offers strategies that change the way you see the court. I’m about halfway done with the book and it’s already got me thinking about adjustments for my next match.
As we dissect the traditional practice court paradigm, you’ll discover why it’s critical to move beyond technique to the strategic ‘where, when, and why’ of each shot. You’ll learn to embrace the pressure of in-match scenarios through our in-depth analysis of scoring and drill modifications that mimic match conditions.
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- Follow Styrling: Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn
- Styrling’s Website: www.transformpracticecourt.com
- His new book is The Art of Winning Tennis
- Drill: Deuces are Wild
- The objective of this momentum game is to highlight that players should focus more on winning 2 consecutive points in the game.
- Players must win 2 consecutive points (1 Momentum point) to win the game.
- The Momentum score is never tied, a player is either +1 or -1 in the Momentum score.
- Serve rotates to the next player once a Momentum Point is won.
- Play short sets to 4 games or full sets to 6 games, must win by a margin of 2 games.
- There are no Tiebreaker games played in Deuces are Wild.
- Drill: Double Mo
- The objective of this momentum game is to highlight that 60% of all games played are won by the player who wins 2 momentum points in the game.
- Players must win 2 momentum points to win the game. This is not 4 points in a row, it is winning 2 consecutive points x 2.
- For example, Player A wins 1 momentum point (2 consecutive points), then Player B wins 1 momentum point. The Player that wins the next momentum point wins the game, a Double Momentum.
- The Momentum score is never tied, a player is either +1 or -1 in the Momentum score.
- Serve rotates to the next player once a Double Momentum is won.
- Play short sets to 4 games or full sets to 6 games, must win by a margin of 2 games.
- There are no Tiebreaker games played in Double Mo.
- Styrling’s Favorites
- Racquet: Yonex Ezone 98
- Book: Winning Ugly by Brad Gilbert
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