Insider's Playbook: Smart Strategies for Competitive Senior Tennis Players Over 50

👉 Go Deeper with Coaches and Pros Who Actually Know Senior Tennis https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081   Can you improve your tennis serve after 50 without changing your grip? In this episode of Insider’s Playbook , Ian Westermann joins Mike Rogers to analyze video of a player whose serve was limited by a shallow racket drop. Ian shows her original motion, the changes she made during...

👉 Go Deeper with Coaches and Pros Who Actually Know Senior Tennis https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081   In a national final with a Gold Ball on the line, Jeff Greenwald was handed a free point that would have ended the match. Instead, he stopped the official and said, “No, I don’t want the point. Replay the point.” What happened next became one of the defining moments of his competi...

👉 Go Deeper with Coaches and Pros Who Actually Know Senior Tennis https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081   For senior tennis players, the return of serve can become one of the most important shots in the game. But too many players over 50 treat the return as simply a way to get the point started instead of an opportunity to immediately put pressure on the server.   In this episode of I...

👉 FREE LIVE WORKSHOP: Move Better and Win More After 50 | Sept. 23 https://www.skool.com/stu-plus/about   What happens after the pain is gone?   For competitive tennis players over 50, feeling better does not automatically mean you are ready to go straight back into full match play.   In this episode of Insider’s Playbook, I talk with former professional hockey player and Matterhorn Fit co-founde...

👉 Go Deeper with Coaches and Pros Who Actually Know Senior Tennis https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081 What happens when you’re up 5-2, feeling good, and then suddenly tighten up?   In this episode of Insider’s Playbook, I’m joined by mental performance coach Jeff Greenwald to talk about one of the most frustrating parts of tennis: why we choke, why we start playing not to lose, and...

👉 Go Deeper with Coaches and Pros Who Actually Know Senior Tennis https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081   Watching the pros can make you want to copy everything they do. But which parts of modern tennis technique translate to recreational players, especially as we get older? In this episode of Insider’s Playbook , Ryan Reidy of 2MinuteTennis breaks down three techniques we can borrow...

👉 Go Deeper with Coaches and Pros Who Actually Know Senior Tennis https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081   Episode Description:   Most "play longer" advice starts backwards.   It tells you to stretch more or lift heavier. But Ryan Vesce — a former pro hockey player who now trains older athletes to stay competitive — says everything starts somewhere else: the nervous system.   "When you...

👉 Go Deeper with Coaches and Pros Who Actually Know Senior Tennis https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081   Episode Description:   Why Tennis Players Over 50 Get in Their Own Way | Jeff Greenwald Why can a 3.5 or 4.0 tennis player sometimes feel more pressure than a professional playing at Wimbledon? For competitive tennis players over 50, the biggest opponent often isn’t standing acros...

👉 Go Deeper with Coaches and Pros Who Actually Know Senior Tennis https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081   Most senior tennis players think their drop shot problem is a speed problem. It's not — it's a footwork problem, and it's wrong 90% of the time. In this episode of Insider's Playbook, tennis footwork and video analysis coach Ryan Reidy breaks down the three footwork mistakes that...

👉 Go Deeper with Coaches and Pros Who Actually Know Senior Tennis https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081   Episode Description:   Four spine surgeries. A heart arrhythmia during a match. A herniated disc at the World Championships in Budapest. Most players would have quit. Eric Friedman didn't.   At 63, Eric is still competing nationally — and what he learned navigating the medical sys...

👉 Be Match Ready as Soon as You're Get on the Court. https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081   Most senior tennis players believe they're too old to make major changes to their game — so they keep grinding the same strokes, hoping for different results. Eric Friedman didn't buy it. In this episode, Eric breaks down how he rebuilt his forehand into a weapon, switched from a one-handed to...

👉 Take my FREE 5-Day Match Ready Challenge: https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081  and be match ready as soon as you're get on the court. You'd think good balance just means you don't tip over on changeovers.   Richard Brice has assessed hundreds of senior players. Nearly every one of them has a balance problem — and most have no idea it's the reason their serve lost power, their nerv...

👉 Take my 5-Day Match Ready Challenge: https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081 and be match ready as soon as you're get on the court.   Richard Brice spent 17 years in chronic pain before he figured out what was driving it — and it wasn't weak muscles or tight hamstrings. It was his brain. Richard joined me on Insider's Playbook to break down why most senior tennis players over 50 are f...

Free Challenge - https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081/about Tired of taking a set to find your game? Try the free 5-day challenge that has you walking onto the court ready from the very first point.   Episode Description:   If you've ever dragged yourself onto the court the day after a grueling multi-match tournament day — singles, doubles, repeat — this episode is the debrief you nee...

7 Day Free Trail - https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081/about Senior Tennis Unpacked Community   You've spent years fixing your forehand, tweaking your footwork, and drilling your backhand — and you're still making the same mistakes. Richard Brice, vision and brain-based training specialist, makes an uncomfortable case: the problem was never your strokes. The problem is your visual sy...

7 Day Free Trail - https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081/about Senior Tennis Unpacked Community   Your reaction time is only declining 2–6 milliseconds per decade — and that decline is trainable. The real reason you feel slow on court isn't age. It's anticipation.   Tennis Fitness Coach Nathan Martin joins the Insider's Playbook to break down the science of reaction time and tennis agi...

7 Day Free Trail - https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081/about Senior Tennis Unpacked Community   Episode Description Jonathan Stokke is back for his third appearance, and this time we're getting into the one thing that beats pace, power, and fancy shot-making at every recreational level — consistency. Not the "just keep it in play" advice you've heard a hundred times. Jonathan breaks...

7 Day Free Trail - https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081/about Senior Tennis Unpacked Community   If you're over 50 and skipping the weight room because you think it'll wreck your joints or wear you out before match day — this episode is going to change your mind. Nathan Martin from Tennis Fitness breaks down exactly why strength training isn't optional anymore at our age, why the ligh...

7 Day Free Trail - https://bit.ly/stu-skool Senior Tennis Unpacked Community   📄 Episode Description We all know the feeling: you're at the net, feeling like a pro, until that high, slow ball goes up and suddenly you're backpedaling like a panicked crab. Most of us hate lobs because we're terrified of our own overheads, but the truth is, we're making it way harder than it needs to be by taking da...

📋 Episode Description Most senior players think they move badly because they're slow. John Craig says that's the wrong diagnosis entirely. In this episode, John — whose "Footplay" system has transformed movement for players well into their 70s — reveals why chasing speed is a trap, and why the real unlock is rhythm, continuous motion, and learning to touch the court instead of hit it. Whether you...

📄 Episode Description Most doubles players think poaching is a gamble — a wing-and-a-prayer lunge you attempt when you "feel it." Jonathan Stokke says that's exactly backwards. In this episode of Insider's Playbook, Stokke breaks down why 99% of his poaches are pre-planned before the ball is struck, why standing near the singles sideline is quietly killing your net game, and why the real default...

If your serve has quietly gotten shorter, slower, and less reliable over the last few years, you've probably blamed your shoulder, your elbow, or just "getting older." John Craig has coached hundreds of senior players over 40 years and says the real culprit is almost never what you think — and the fixes most players are chasing are making it worse. In this episode, we get into what breaks down fir...

Every competitive tennis player over 50 will eventually sit in a surgeon's office. Most walk in completely unprepared. In this episode, orthopedic surgeon Dr. William Kang — who plays and treats tennis players — gives you the exact questions to ask before agreeing to surgery, the truth about PRP and whether it's worth your money, and the recovery timeline reality that most players get completely w...

What ends senior tennis careers isn't one big injury — it's the slow accumulation of small ones you kept playing through. Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Will Kang explains exactly what to watch for before it's too late. In this episode, Dr. Kang breaks down the three most career-threatening injuries for players over 50 — tennis elbow, rotator cuff tears, and knee degeneration — and delivers some hard trut...

Attention 50+ tennis players, we're picking up right where we left off — no small talk, no warm-up, straight into Reason 6. In Part 2 of this conversation with Peter Freeman, we finish the list: serve clarity, the hunter vs. hunted trap, second serve domination, the difference between Dr. Feel Good and Dr. Feel Bad practices, and the one doubles mindset shift that most senior players never make. I...