I have written many times about the power of repetition in learning the game of tennis. Players should become familiar with and never forget how repetition is the key to automatic, instinctive, intuitive and subconscious play. Oddly enough, automatic play is what players desire the most, but rigid, mechanical play is what they seek to understand. Massive, and I do mean massive, amounts of information can be found flooding the Internet, teaching mechanics as the top priority for learning the game of tennis. Of course some guidance or procedures are necessary to learn a tennis stroke, but the priority must be repetition to achieve sublime intuitive play.
 
The body has an amazing ability to mold itself when given even half a chance. Too much technical information circumvents this molding process and leaves a player with a false sense of what must be done to learn how to play successfully.
 
So to help you further understand how you learn to be successful in the game of tennis, here is a lesson on the power of repetition combined with the power of time. Repetition alone will not do the trick. You need both!
 
To learn any sport you must understand and correctly utilize two principles of learning:
 
1. REPETITION
 
You must repeat an act over and over and over again in many different scenarios to eventually master a movement. Repetition does not mean hitting the same shot over and over again. Repetition in many different scenarios means hitting balls on a ball machine, in on-court practice drills, in practice matches, in tournament play and even against a wall. All of these different types of repetition can challenge the senses to begin molding tennis strokes. Repetition is the chariot of genius and is always the greatest teacher.
 
Nick Bollettieri's comments on repetition in a Q and A session says it all!