in the video below Kevin Garlington outlines a strategy to help you understand and appreciate the different phases of a tennis point.

Stop making mistakes and giving your opponent the match! Successful tennis requires reducing the number of mistakes you make. You can reduce mistakes by going into a match with a game plan… and on a more granular level, a point plan for each point.

To create a point plan, you must first understand that the point itself is made up of 4 phases. Learning the 4 phases of a point will reduce the number costly mistakes you make in matches. This understanding will also help you know what to do in order to win more matches.