A Book that Lets You Bypass Years of Playing Matches and Enduring Frustrating Losses to Gain "Match Experience"
The secret truth is that there is an invisible map being played out in EVERY single tennis point that even the world's top players are unaware of outside of instinct and knowing what to do in the moment.
Most people say "tennis is chess", assuming that tennis is too complicated to figure out and that the best you can do is come up with an endless list of random plays and hope for the best.
This book has quantified tennis strategy in both singles AND doubles, allowing you to bypass spending years of "match experience" and instead go straight to learning everything that can happen in singles AND doubles without having to guess or figure it out with hundreds d of random plays.
If you implement the knowledge in this book , your player development and match results will skyrocket.
Very soon, not only will this book will be the basis for AI match analysis, but it will be the secret weapon behind every successful player and coach.
If you don't want to fall behind and you want to advance your game or tennis coaching, get a copy.
People make tennis complicated when the truth is that tennis is very simple when you know how to quantify it.
Your level as a tennis player is exactly measured by your ability to do these three things, and these 3 things alone:
• Stay in the point
• End the point
• Save the point
Every time you hit any shot in any tennis point, you are attempting to do one of these three things.
• Staying in the point is called neutral strategy
• Ending the point is called offensive strategy
• Saving the point is called defensive strategy
In this chapter, we quantify exactly what each of these strategies look like.
But why is this chapter and the book called "The Complete Map of Tennis Strategy"? What is this "map"?
So here's where the map comes in. The success or failure of any of these three strategies will either lead to the end of the point, or leads to another strategy happening. This is called a pathway.
The complete set of pathways that connects every single strategy describes every possible outcome that can happen in a singles point. We get to doubles in chapter 3.
As the chapter title suggests, this chapter tells you every single possible effective shot.
An effective shot is a shot that removes the players balance and forces them to hit a particular set of shots that expose their lack of balance. In the book, we list exact signs of what this looks like.
This chapter quantifies the most important shots to work on from every single area of the court, and although it mainly concerns singles, it also applies to doubbles.
This chapter is the checklist of exact shot locations to work on.
There are 9 laws that tell you exactly how to play doubles:
• Law #1: The Role of the Front and Back Player
This explains the job of the player in the front and the job of the player in the back
• Law #2: The 2/3 Rule of Doubles Court Coverage
This law explains how to never get a passing shot hit passed either player when you're at the net
• Law #3: Returning Serve in the Hot Seat
This law explains how to never get penetrated by a shot in-between both partners at the beginning of the point
• Law #4: How to Properly Deal With Lobs
This law explains exactly how to deal with any lob
• Law #5: Advance Opportunities
This law quantifies and explains exactly how to take advantage of opportunities to move into the net
• Law #6: Proper Doubles Communication and Switching Sides
This law explains the exact situations where you're supposed to switch sides and communicate with your partner
• Law #7: How to Influence The Opponent's Return
This law explains how to control where the opponent hits their return based on your serve placement in doubles
• Law #8: The Middle Boundary Law: How to Hit Unpoachable Returns
This law explains how to return so that the opposing team's partner at the net cannot poach on it
• Law #9: Guaranteed Poaches
This law explains poaches that are highly guaranteed to be successful
After learning all 9 of these laws, you know exactly how to win any doubles match against any team.
My name is Julius Gavin. I've been playing tennis since I was 7 years old, have competed in hundreds of junior tournaments, played a semester of D1 college, and I've been coaching since 2019 - but the truth is that none of that actually matters.
My mission with tennis is to completely quantify every aspect of the sport: the strokes, footwork, strategy, gear, mindset, and fitness.
The problem with the sport of tennis is that it's never been quantified. Even our top players' are very inadequate at teaching the sport. And even the method of coaches who teach or worked with a top player just doesn't work on other people.
There's no universal method or linear training program that provides a clear map or list of what to learn and what to do to get to the next level. Tennis appears ambiguous to many, and like a "secret society" to other.
Without a clear idea of how to learn the sport, people defer to just believing that you need "natural coordination", "natural talent", you have to start young, the training takes years, and many other things completely out of your control.
But if you ask anyone why, they can't give you a real answer other than "that's what every pro did", and so everyone just stops there and never looks for better or faster solutions.
Tennis strokes are quantifiable. Tennis footwork is quantifiable. Tennis strategy is quantifiable. Everything in this sport is quantifiable to the point where it can be turned into a list of same-set instructions that work on anyone regardless of their background.
My mission is to turn tennis into an easier sport anyone can get into and to help players actualize their true potential.