tennishackery – Details, episodes & analysis

Soham, Craig and Tarun discuss in detail their Top 3 news worthy items from 2024 in this exciting and entertaining year-end special!

Soham, Craig and Tarun discuss match play deficiencies seen at both the junior and adult levels and and how to play better in matches. Topics include importance of training intensity, serve/return game, transition game, drills, dealing with emotions, court geometry, etc.

Resources and Links: 16 second CureRoger Federer's outstanding speech at Dartmouth Alex Deminaur in training - Crazy - Dont' try this at home.

Philosophy in dealing with Failure in matches- Giannis reaction- GOLD -  THERE IS NO FAILURE IN SPORTS

Soham, Alex and Tarun discuss Injuries and Prevention of Injuries in Tennis.

Early Specialization in Youth Sports

Tennis injuries -juniors survey

Heat illness - cramps

Soham and Tarun discuss the Pro Game, including their favorite players from ATP/WTA, singles and doubles tennis, as well as what can we learn from these pros.

Related

String Theory- The finest piece of tennis writing. Period.

Strokes of Genius

Stan Wawrinka vs Gasquet - Commentators going absolutely bonkers reacting to insane level of tennis.

Sampras vs Agassi USO 2001

Open by Agassi - Autobiography

Steffi Graf

Soham and Tarun discuss technology in tennis, including topics like Rackets, Strings, Analytics, Apps, Videos, etc.

Broad survey of tennis Tech

Bill Jacobsons Tennis computer

Guide to tennis courts.

Rackets & Strings

The crew discuss things like the improvement process, match management, recognizing patterns, risk taking, dealing with nerves in a match and a bunch of other related fun topics.

Links

• Dr Jim Loerhr's 16 Second Cure
• Mindset by Carol Dweck
• Winning Ugly - Brad Gilbert
• Euclidean tennis

The gang gets together to discuss the mental aspects of tennis. Broad topics like growth mindset, emotions, energy, self awareness, junior tennis philosophy for parents and kids are discussed in this part 1 of Mental Tennis series. It's a Q&A format with Soham & Alex where Alex talks about her experiences as a pro player and coach, and Soham on his experiences coaching and competing.

Resources

Jorghe Capstany - Tennis IQ podcast

Books

Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallaway

Fearless Tennis Jeff Greenwald

Winning Ugly - Brad Gilbert

The whole Tennishackery gang Alex, Soham and Tarun get together to discuss tennis fitness: what, why and hows.

Resources

Risks of early specialization in tennis

Dr Mark Kovacs itpa-tennis.org 

https://kovacsacademy.com

Some good Instagram accounts

https://www.instagram.com/_baselinepower_/

@squatuniversity.

Disclaimer - Do not learn stuff especially olympic lifting and friends without proper supervision and training.

Episode 2 features Soham's visit to the recently concluded Indian Wells Masters. We talk about broad ranging topics focused on this tournament and more importantly what we can learn from the pro game and players.

The launch episode of the Tennishackery podcast. The place where we discuss all things at the intersection of tennis, technology and the brain game. Episode 1 is about what is Tennishackery, how we came about, a little about each of us and the kind of content we are hope to bring. Please follow us on our socials .

Instagram: @tennishackery X: @tennishackery Email: tennishackery@gmail.com

Website to be launched soon :-)