"Therefore you, knowing I am not a fool, would clearly not put the poison in front of yourself." ~ Vezzinni from Princess Bride (Clearly...

Last year I had a client who came to me with the idea of starting a new tennis clinic with ladies from a particular social group at the...

Pressure Time And Space If I were to say that I want to pressure my opponent’s time and space, but all I do is stand 5 feet behind the...

It’s interesting and disappointing to me how self-centered many coaches can be, but the most successful ones are other centered, or at...

When you have a client at your club, they might be a regular lesson taker. They might want private lessons, clinics, hitting sessions and...

The way you use targets on court will change slightly based on what kind of style you play. The more powerful a player you are, while you...

Even the best volleyers will have a relative weakness, and I will use an extreme example to start. Daniel had a world class backhand...

One of the great things about the other player’s second serves, is that it can be the greatest opportunity you will have to break your...

Be Empathetic When that student first enters the gate, and maybe for the last few hours up to the beginning the lesson, they often are...

Today is a quick brain dump trying to get to the bottom of 7 things that will help you to attract and retain clients like no one else....

The return of serve is the second most important shot in tennis, but that is because it's counterpart is the most important shot. The...

Today is part two in a series on how to exploit the general weaknesses inherent in certain types of shots. This is all in the forthcoming...

This is the first in a series of blog posts about how to find and exploit the relative weakness in any style of player that you might...

Here is a still valid conversation from October 2017 with Styrling Strother. Styrling and Bill discuss... Bill summarizes his trip to...

The Foundational Set Up Early in the season with the most advanced players, I like to give them 30 full minutes of practicing serves and...

This is an early draft of a chapter from Tennis Strategy 201, because... If you want to move beyond 4.0 to 4.5 and beyond, you absolutely...

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers...

Hey there, I am pleased to announce that I am on vacation. The occasion is that my aunt Lorna is having her 90th birthday, and it's...

A collaboration of Bill Patton and Styrling Strother (USATennisCoach is no longer...) (From Bill) A coach can develop greater trust with...

I am not a product of my circumstances, I am a product of my decisions. ~ Stephen Covey All three of our last three posts could have...