Two-Racket Tennis: The Truly Balanced Workout

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By Don R. Mueller, Ph.D. aka “Professor Tennis and the Two-racket Guy”

TworacketTwo-Racket Tennis, unlike its one-racket counterpart, is truly a full-body workout as both sides of the body are utilized in a balanced way to play the game. (The two-racket game is a complete form of tennis along with the two-racket serve. The game follows the same rules as that for one-racket tennis.) Two-racket play encourages the development of bilateral coordination, strength and power, which lends itself to numerous sports: soccer, hockey, basketball and baseball to name just a few. In the new era of Cross-training, such athletes can benefit by including Two-racket Tennis into their training repertoire.

Two-racket tennis can be played by anyone willing to give it a try. Kids particularly like the two-forehand appeal of the game, because they generally have trouble in quickly mastering the backhand. Senior players find two-racket tennis to be a novel way to alleviate arm strain by employing the two-arm strategy. For the garden-variety tennis enthusiast, two-racket tennis affords the player a number of practical benefits over that of conventional tennis:

(1) Hitting with power from both sides.

(2) Bigger wingspan: more easily reach those difficult shots.

(3) Avoid backhand injuries.

(4) Hand-eye coordination for both sides of the body.

(5) Less back strain.

(6) Less arm fatigue.

(7) Greater flexibility.

The Two-racket Serve: People ask, “Professor, how can you possibly serve using two rackets?” Fortunately the answer is simply and straightforward. The tennis ball rests in the throat of the racket held by the non-serving arm and is then tossed upward in the same way that a one-racket player tosses the ball with his or her non-serving hand. It’s really quite simple once you get the hang of it.

Two-racket tennis can also help improve the performance of the one-racket player.

Two-racket tennis can also help improve the performance of the one-racket player. To give you a concrete example, let’s examine the traditional two-hand backhand: The two-hand backhand is really just a choked up forehand (with the “racket hand” placed near the bottom portion of the racket handle) as you would find in the swinging of a baseball bat. Practicing two-racket tennis builds forearm strength, which in turn, adds power to the two-hand backhand stroke. Try it out and you will see.

For more information about the Two-racket game, feel free to check out the following link:

Two-racket website: www.tworacket.com