Loosen the grip with Paul Prior

One of the greatest contributors to poor performance under a stressful tennis match is tension and a tight forearm. Being looser allows your muscles to flex and generate more speed to the racquet head. Not only will you see greater ball speed, but spin!

Target Practice

Targets are great, they bring a challenge, but also bring focus. Additionally targets are a great means to train technique.

The Accelerator

This drill helps to develop the players ability to adjust to fast incoming balls to play defensively, but still with the racquet and ball speed to neutralize their opponents strong stroke.

Waiting for the ball

One of the most intriguing questions that I have had in studying tennis for all these years is, Why do better players look like they have more time to hit the ball than beginners do?




If players of higher levels hit the ball harder, theoretically they should have less time to hit the ball than a beginner who hits the ball slower. It is an illusion I have come to see!




because more advanced players have a faster swing, they can start their swing later than the beginner with the slower swing, giving the advanced player more time to get into position to execute their stroke.




You need to hit with a faster swing, not only to hit more effectively, but to buy yourself more time to hit the ball!

Hip the ball for Successful Tennis with Paul Prior

The rotation of the hips is important to allow the power to continue flowing up through our bodies and into the racquet and ball. The hips are the link in the Bio-Kinetic chain that cause the most breakages. This exercise assists in developing not only the movement but timing too of when to rotate the hips!

Benching the Groundstroke

A great way to develop the technique of the groundstrokes. It limits the body movement, and works the racquets movement.

Modern Tennis?

I always find it very entertaining with a laugh under my breath when I hear coaches talk about the modern way to play tennis. I always ask myself the same question, how much has the game of tennis really changed? To be more specific, How much have the principles of tennis changed over the years?

Imagine you woke up this morning, turned the television on and heard the breaking news (I suppose in this day and age, you would get it in your Facebook feed), that the governing body of tennis, the International Tennis Federation, had changed the dimensions of the tennis court, adjusting not only the lines and court dimensions, but the official net height. This would constitute a sit down and rethink how tennis is played and taught, a modern way of tennis. Or suppose the International Tennis Federation changed their name to the Inter-galactic Tennis Federation with tennis only permitted to be played on the moon or planets where there is no gravity. This too would bring about changes to the way tennis is played and therefore the way tat the game needs to be taught. That to me is the Modern game of tennis!

I have come across this so many times with so many parents being convinced by some coach that their son or daughter needs to train with them to learn how to play the game of the pro's and modern methods. Unfortunately I have so often seen these coaches ruin a very good natural talent.