Tennis Coaching: Applying the Game Sense Approach

Abstract

This article demonstrates the game sense approach for teaching tennis to novice players. In a game sense approach, learning is positioned within modified games to emphasize the way rules shape game behavior, tactical awareness, decision-making and the development of contextualized stroke mechanics.

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Shane Pill

Shane Pill ([email protected]) is an associate professor in the School of Education at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia;

Mitchell Hewitt

Mitchell Hewitt is an education project manager at Tennis Australia in Melbourne, Australia.