In this month’s column, coach Marcin Bieniek, founder of instructional Enjoy Tennis Blog, explains the importance of good footwork and how proper movement connects many other tennis skills. To put advice into practice, Marcin is giving us three concrete moves that we can work on to gain advantage over our opponents: split step, sprint and deceleration, and crossover step.
Technical skills in tennis have to be accompanied by specific tennis movement. Petra Kvitova wins a lot of points using offensive forehand, Serena Williams is famous for hitting winners with her powerful backhand — every player has their own strengths that they use to dominate opponents, but movement is an important aspect of it.