The Murray brothers, Andy and Jamie, Kyle Edmund, Dan Evans and Cameron Norrie all aim to play in the ‘Battle of the Brits’ round robin event which will be played behind closed doors at Roehampton on 23-28 June 2020.

Roger Federer’s social media proposal that the ATP and WTA should merge has prompted many positive responses including that from Simona Halep and Garbine Muguruza according to the BBC. The current lockdown climate urged Federer to claim that ‘the time is right to come together as one’.

Amazing Italian girls; Vittoria 13 and Carola 11 became overnight social media stars with this fantastic rooftop rally during the lockdown last Saturday 18/04/2020.

Wimbledon Champion, Novak Djokovic faces a dilemma about taking a possible mandatory COVID-19 vaccine supplied to every ATP and WTA player once the tours recommence according to ESPN News.

I know, these are unprecedented times with very little if any income, an inert tennis programme and racquets gathering dust. But amongst the gloom, the actions from many in our industry have been second to none. Home tennis ideas, webinars to discuss the way back, the list goes on.

It’s a typical doubles scenario whether you are serve and volleying or just coming in on a short ball and highly frustrating having just successfully played one of the hardest shots in the book, only to have your efforts thwarted by a keen net poaching opponent!

As a naïve junior player it was drummed into me,” You must step into the volley! Get forward!” But many years, much experience and research later I discovered that this is not strictly true.

When you play doubles either socially or more on a competitive level what tactics do think about?
Most would think about needing to be sharp at the net, possibly even the need to serve and volley or chip and charge.

I hope you and your families are keeping well in these physically and mentally challenging times. We’d love you to try out some of these 5 fun garden games.

We’ve created 7 FREE groundstroke and footwork videos to help you practice at home.
Plus, we also show you a cunning way for you to practice hitting without breaking anything precious no matter how big your garden is!
Please stay safe and enjoy!

The split step is to allow the player to move in a more efficient and explosive fashion but when exactly do you execute it, read on...

I’m sure that you will agree to the importance of staying physically active and mentally charged
So, we at MTI would like to offer you a series of FREE video exercises to help your all-round fitness and flexibility that you can do at home devised by Head Coach Tutor, Andy Magrath.