THE PLAYBOOK

The Playbook is a one-stop, go-to manual of tennis coaching drills, top tips and tales from the tennis tour. It brings to life everything you need to improve your game, whether you are an elite player, a coach, or just starting out on your tennis journey. Dip in for guidance or raid it for new ideas and encouragement: The Playbook will inspire you to get the best out of your game. It pulls together valuable coaching drills (basket-fed and live-point), hidden gems picked up by Colin (Beechy) and collected in his notebooks over 30 years of playing and coaching on the professional tour. There is even a ‘Glossary of Terms’, for those that might not know their Ad court from their body serve, or that ghosting is not just someone ignoring your texts! Everything is covered: inside-out forehands, slice backhands, niche shots, first and second serves, volleys, and smashes. It is all there. Take your pick.And that’s not all. There are stories from Beechy’s days on the ATP tour, too. Valuable learning moments experienced along the way. These are not just the high points. These real-life tennis stories highlight how every player, every coach, however successful they might become, must face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some of them physical, some of them mental. You have to lose a lot of points at tennis, even if you win: Roger Federer lost 46% of points played in his career, after all. What do you learn from coming unstuck in a match? The stories here are intended to breathe life into the drills. They are a way of understanding why we as coaches and players do what we do. They shine a light on how this commitment to repetition and drilling and fitness and training can be rewarded in the ultimate arenas of the sport. Read more