How Become a Professional Tennis Player

Tennis is a fun and engaging sport. Many dream of playing on a professional level, but few achieve that dream.

Being a professional in any sport is challenging to say the least, but tennis is one of the most challenging. Tennis is a solo sport where everything falls to only one player. Playing a solo sport teaches valuable lessons in self-reliance and can be one of the most rewarding sports to play, especially at the professional level.

There are many things such as hard work, passion, patient, talent, wisdom require becoming a successful professional tennis player. But there is one thing that every junior player who made it as a pro had: sincere desire. This characteristic, desire, while not having anything to do with genetics or wealth, certainly is often more elusive and rare than any other attribute.

Desire means that no one and nothing will prevent you from doing what is necessary to reach your goals. Players with sincere desire do not look at making time to practice as a "sacrifice." Anyone can say he "wants to be the best tennis player in the world," but few are willing to pay the price to actually be the best. Those who have become the best in anything didn't get there by wasting time or avoiding the hard work that they knew it would take.

 Ask any champion if they didn't make serious sacrifices in pursuit of perfection. Many might even say they never made any sacrifices because it was always their number one priority to become the best tennis player in the world. Once a player understands the correlation between desire and setting goals, the rest of the "journey" becomes the reward and the level of actual skilled.

I will give some tips from my experience for beginners to become a good tennis player.

Practice! You have to be fairly good in tennis where you are at the level of at least being able to compete locally. Practice is the only way to get better, and I could say this a million times and it would still be the best advice. Practice frequently and well. I can never stress the importance of practicing! It is so important. It is the only way of getting better!

Competitiveness is good, but getting under stress and becoming over-competitive is bad! Chill sometimes when you are losing badly or having a bad season.

Take care of your body. You only have one for your whole life. So please be gentle with yourself. If you are injured, REST.

Get a good coach. They will become very good help and advice givers. This is important. Get a coach. Spend the time to find good coaches. Bad coaches ARE out there, believe it or not (from personal experience). Your time will be paid back when you get superb coaching.

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Get good equipment. Novak Djokovic does not play with strings that are made out of plastic and racquets that are out of junk. Get fairly good equipment, so you will have less worries and more concentrations on court and trust me it cost a lot of money!

Join the USTA! You can't play in tournaments, leagues, team tennis, or anything really if you don't join the United States Tennis Association. So join! It isn't very expensive.

http://www.usta.com/About-USTA

Start at a young age. You have to accumulate points, and this, believe it or not, is a really good "first step" in competitive tennis. You might have a chance once you're older. You can have fun by participating in leagues and even going to nationals!