Longines Future Tennis Aces Tournament

A MEETING OF TALENTED YOUNG PLAYERS IN THE HEART OF PARIS

The Longines Future Tennis Aces tournament has been organized by Longines since 2010. For eight successive years, every year Longines invites around 20 promising young tennis players who are around 12 years of age into this prestigious event.

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Footwork and Movement for Tennis Youngsters

As a youngster tennis player, the technical part of your tennis game is very important, but another main aspect is footwork and movement to help you get to balls on the court. Young players do not really need to do very heavy or hard fitness as they are still young and are growing but learning some basic footwork and movement drills is quite necessary.

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Sports That Help a Youngster’s Tennis

Agility, coordination, endurance and speed are some of the many key fundamental athletic requirements needed for tennis. These areas can be developed and improved on by playing sports other than tennis and may even speed up the developmental process. There are a vast variety of sports which will assist in the development of your child’s tennis. These are sports which your child can participate in when they are not playing tennis.

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Keys to a Powerful Forehand

When tennis youngsters play competitions or tournaments, some of them think that their shots cannot finish the point or hit penetrating shots because their shots do not have that much power. This can happen on forehands commonly and also backhands. Then they start to try to hit the ball harder by doing wrong things like tightening up. Even some kids hit the ball with two much rotation and cannot control the ball so much easier and this may cause the ball to go in all sorts of directions on the tennis court.

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