 Scott's Tennis Tips
Scott Nichols was formerly, the Director of Tennis at Long Cove Club, Hilton Head Island, SC. and at The El Paso Country Club, El Paso, Texas. He also; designed, built and managed The Scott Nichols Centre Court in El Paso. Scott holds top International, National and Southern Singles and Doubles Rankings in the Men's 40 Division. In 2003, Scott won the National Grasscourt 40 Singles title in Rhode Island, and in 2004, he represented the United States at The Trabert Cup in Antalya, Turkey.
- Former US Nationally # 1 ranked in singles and Doubles
- US Trabert Cup Team member 2004
- USTA National Grasscourt Champion 2003
- USPTA 2005 Southern 35-under Player of the year
- USPTR 2005 Player of the year
- USPTA/PTR Pro 1
- Former USPTA CertifiedTester
- Promoter and teacher of tennis to the Special Olympic athletes and Wheelchair tennis player
- Past sponsored by several companies; Mercedes Benz, Fila, Wilson, Adidas
Van Winitsky, Scott Nichols, Jeff Johnston, and Tom Coulton
Island Nationally Ranked Pros
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Turn First for Volley |
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Many of you are quick, agile and smart at the net; however several of you attack the volley by moving your racquet first and never moving your feet. Instead, one should decide which side you will volley; forehand or backhand; then turn for that shot by moving your feet etc. and then use your racquet to make contact on the volley. If you do not turn first, you will have poor technique and this will create bad habits and you will have very little success. See you on the lesson court!
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Foot Faulting |
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Many of you members are foot faulting, as a server one is NOT allowed to touch the baseline with either foot while serving. Though many of you have a ‘fluid’ technique for serving, we must all work on this bad habit. It does matter, especially if you are playing in USTA Team Leagues, as well as, participating in Adult Interclub Tennis. The easiest way to fix this problem is to back up a few inches from the baseline and change nothing else. This solution is simple enough and will do the trick.
To find out if you are foot faulting, simply ask your doubles partner to watch you serve a few. As a team, both players should be communicating and helping each other with this bad habit, as well as, any others that may appear. I am available for any consultation about this topic of foot faulting and will be implementing the same in my up-coming tennis clinics.
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Seeing the Ball |
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Over the last few weeks, on cloudy day’s, I have noticed an array of errors with some of your tennis swings. The balls have not been very hard shots, so I started to think deeper into what the cause may be. It dawned on me, that some players that have prescription glasses, may not be wearing them for tennis. After asking several player’s in my clinic’s about this, sure enough, some of the player’s forgot to wear their glasses or didn’t think they needed to. Whether you are near sighted or far sighted, the game of tennis requires player’s to hit moving tennis balls near to us or far from us. My suggestion is if you read and/ or drive with glasses, try wearing prescription sun glasses, regular prescription glasses or contacts for tennis., I bet it will help and you will have a reduced number of unforced errors!!
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