Tennis Drills TV Blog
Running Out of Drill Ideas? Try This “Plug-and-Play” Lesson Plan Coaches Swear By
Running Out of Drill Ideas? Try This “Plug-and-Play” Lesson Plan Coaches Swear By By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional, and PTR International Master Professional Let’s be honest… It’s not that you don’t care. It’s that [...]
Buying and Selling Racquet Sports Facilities
Buying and Selling Racquet Sports Facilities By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional, and PTR International Master Professional I recently had the opportunity to interview my friend Jim Bates, a former tennis teaching professional and now [...]
The Smart Way to Build a Better Serve
The Smart Way to Build a Better Serve (Step-by-Step Progressions) By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional, and PTR International Master Professional In this video, we break down one of the most important and often frustrating [...]
Types of Forehands (And Which is Right For You)
Types of Forehands (And Which is Right for You) By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional, and PTR International Master Professional If you look at the best players in the world, you will see plenty of [...]
Why Tennis is the World’s Toughest Sport
Why Tennis Is the World’s Toughest Sport By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional, and PTR International Master Professional Tennis isn’t just physically demanding… It’s mentally relentless. Unlike most sports, there’s often no coaching allowed during competition. [...]
The Four Stages of Competence
The Four Stages of Competence By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional If you’ve ever felt like your game got worse right after trying to improve something… You’re actually on the [...]
Range of Acceptability – Tennis Technique
There Is No Perfect Technique (So Stop Chasing It) By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional, and PTR International Master Professional If you study the best players in the world, you’ll notice something surprising… None [...]
The Real Reason to Compete
The Real Reason to Compete By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional, and PTR International master professional The real reason to compete in tennis isn’t just to win, it’s to gather honest, invaluable feedback. Matches expose [...]
Getting Your Coaching Staff On The Same Page
How a Large Private Club Created Consistency Across 12 Coaches By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional Running a large racquet club sounds great on paper… Multiple pros / Full schedules [...]
Masterful High School Tennis Practices
How a High School Coach Turned 90-Minute Practices into a Competitive Advantage By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional When this high school coach first joined TennisDrills.tv, their biggest frustration wasn’t [...]
Transforming Your Tennis Program
How One TennisDrills.tv Member Transformed Their Coaching Program By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional At TennisDrills.tv, we hear it all the time… “This has made my life so much easier.” [...]
5 Ways Tennis Coaches Can Protect Their Bodies (and Careers)
5 Ways Tennis Coaches Can Protect Their Bodies (and Careers) By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional Most tennis coaches don’t get injured in one dramatic moment. They wear down. It’s [...]
Player Motivation and Tennis Drills
How Much Motivation Should Come From the Coach vs. the Player? By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional One of the most common questions I get is this: Who is responsible [...]
Rally Builder Series
Rally Builder Series By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional After over four decades of teaching and spending more than 65,000 hours on the court, I’m more convinced than ever [...]
If You Were the Coach – Strategy Quiz for Players
If You Were the Coach - Strategy Quiz for Players By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional As coaches, we often struggle to get our players to think and deploy [...]
Ten Ways to Get the Most Out of TennisDrills TV
Ten Ways to Get the Most Out of TennisDrills TV By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional This article's purpose is to help you understand the many ways that you [...]
Tennis Parent’s Quiz
Tennis Parent’s Quiz By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional. This is a Tennis Parent's Quiz originally from Tennis Hall of Famer Stan Smith. We share this with many of [...]
Core Values that Tennis Teaches
Core Values that Tennis Teaches By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional. It may be the oldest question about sports... Do sports teach character or reveal it? Some would answer [...]
3 Types of Toughness Needed for Tennis
3 Types of Toughness Needed for Tennis By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional. Mental Toughness has always been associated with success in tennis. Players often talk about the need [...]
The Truth About Rally Length
The Truth About Rally Length By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional. If you teach or play tennis, you’re gonna wanna read this. A few years ago, my good buddy [...]
EVIDENCE: Why You Should Come to the Net
EVIDENCE: Why You Should Come to the Net By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional. Many of you know that my buddy Craig O’Shannessy is the lead strategy analyst for [...]
5 Reasons You’re Not Improving at Tennis.
5 Reasons You’re Not Improving at Tennis. By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional. I talk to a lot of tennis players who tell me they feel they have stopped [...]
Why Tennis is the World’s Toughest Sport
Why Tennis is the World's Toughest Sport By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional. We often tell our players at the club that tennis is the world's toughest sport. At [...]
Serial Drillers
Serial Drillers… By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional & PTR International Master Professional. How group lesson programs are killing American Junior tennis. I have been teaching for over 40 years and have logged over [...]
The Value of Competitive Match Pressure
Understanding the Value of Competitive Match Pressure By Jorge Capestany, RSPA Master Professional, PTR International Professional After teaching for more than four decades, I can see a distinct shift in players' attitudes toward competition [...]
























