When you walk onto the match court, practice time is over. You can’t make last-minute adjustments to your technique to improve your chances of winning. Your forehand is your forehand, your serve is your serve and your backhand is your backhand - you’ve just got to hope that you execute them well. What you do have complete power over though is your mentality and your tennis singles strategy. These are two areas where you can immediately make a difference in any game, no matter how dire the situation might look!

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• Players/teams cannot touch the net or posts or cross onto the opponent’s side.
• Players/teams cannot carry the ball or catch it with the racquet.
Players cannot hit the ball twice.
• Players must wait until the ball passes the net before they can return it.
• If the ball hits or touches the players, that counts as a penalty.

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