Paul Borenstein_Tennis

08/30/2026

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08/26/2026

08/26/2026

Tennis is tough...
But don't give up just yet!
Keep pushing! 💪🎾

08/24/2026

Why all top servers coil their wrist at the beginning of the serve? Alcaraz, Sinner, Federer, Shelton, Kyrgios - they all do it. The reason is when you get to the top of the serve motion here, you want you hand facing down. It's gonna be the easiest way to get it around and back through. Otherwise, the palm points up and we end up pushing the serve.

08/24/2026

Keep your non-dominant hand on the throat of the racket a little longer. Don’t separate too early, and don’t complete your unit turn and take the racket back just to wait there. Instead, stay connected and time your load and separation for just before the ball bounces. That’s your cue: as the ball is about to hit the ground—load and separate.

08/23/2026

🎾 Continental Grip: A Must for Serves & Overheads

08/20/2026

This happens before every great serve!!

08/16/2026

My Top 3 Tennis Regrets as a Junior Player 🎾

Looking back at my junior tennis years, there are three things I wish I had understood much earlier. And interestingly, I see a lot of junior players making these same mistakes today.

1️⃣ My racket was too heavy.

305 grams, 315 grams... for many 13-, 14-, or 15-year-old players, that's simply more racket than they need.

At that age, you're still growing. You may be tall, you may be strong for your age, and you may be a very good player—but you're still not physically developed like an adult.

Don't choose your racket based on what your favorite professional player uses. You're not them.

At least not yet. 🙂

Use a racket that allows you to generate racket-head speed, stay relaxed, and develop good technique without having to muscle the ball.

2️⃣ I didn't spend enough time working on my footwork.

Technique is incredibly important. Nobody would argue with that.

But movement and footwork are just as important.

As you get older and the level gets higher, almost everyone has decent strokes. The ability to move efficiently, get into the right position, recover quickly, and stay balanced becomes one of the things that separates better players from everyone else.

So don't skip the movement and footwork drills just because hitting balls is more fun.

3️⃣ I thought practicing a lot automatically meant getting better.

This may be my biggest one.

Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes habits.

And those habits can be good—or bad.

You can train five days a week and still reinforce the wrong movement, the wrong technique, or the wrong tactical decisions thousands of times.

That's why training needs to be mindful, purposeful, and systematic.

Understand why you're doing a drill. Know what you're trying to improve. Pay attention to whether it's actually working. And when something isn't working, don't just keep repeating it—figure out why and make an adjustment.

Otherwise, you can spend an enormous amount of time, energy, and money practicing while unknowingly making bad habits stronger.

Training more isn't always the answer. Training better is. 🎾

08/16/2026

YOUR RACKET IS NOT A BAT!:)

One of my junior students’ moms texted me the other day asking if I could help “string a bat.” 😄

At first, I honestly didn’t understand what she meant. Then I realized she was asking if I could string her son’s tennis racket.
It made me laugh, but it also got me thinking...

Of course, she simply doesn’t know much about tennis, so to her, a bat and a racket are basically the same idea—something you use to hit a ball.
But there’s actually an important distinction here that I think many tennis players don’t fully understand:

A tennis racket is NOT a bat. Think of it more like the tip of a whip.
If you try to generate power by gripping the racket tightly and muscling the ball with your arm, you’re treating the racket like a bat.

Instead, great racket-head speed comes from using the entire kinetic chain—legs, hips, core, shoulder and arm—while keeping the arm and wrist relaxed. The energy travels through the body and into the racket, allowing the racket head to accelerate and whip through the ball.

Watch this slow-motion compilation of some of the best forehands in tennis (in my opinion)— Roger Federer, Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz—and you’ll see exactly what I mean.

Don’t swing a bat at the ball.
Let the racket whip through it. 🎾