March was a busy month for tennis’ leading-edge instructional publication, tennisplayer.net. In addition to creating a new issue, the magazine’s publisher, Matt Pressman, and executive editor, Joel Drucker, participated extensively in RacquetX, the highly popular gathering of hundreds of tennis industry leaders and thinkers held in Ft. Lauderdale on the eve of the Miami Open.
Over the course of 48 action-packed hours, Pressman and Drucker conducted and led half a dozen seminar-like events – all devoted to providing first-rate insights on how to become a better tennis player.
One highlight moment: “Brave New Ball-Hopper,” a panel led by Drucker that featured such coaching notables as former WTA pro Viktoria Belinsky, former ATP pro Claudio Pistolesi, and, from the USTA, Brian Parkkonen. This lively dialogue touched on such topics as how to effectively understand the makeup of a particular player, the implications of mid-match coaching, and much more.
According to Pressman, who joined the publication in the summer of 2025 and is also the publisher-editor of Florida Tennis, “The mission of tennisplayer.net is to help players learn, compete, and improve. Our founder, the late John Yandell, was a visionary when it came to truly understanding how the game is played and how it can best be taught. We’re very excited to continuing fulfilling and extending John’s legacy.”
Drucker and Pressman also staged five instructional seminars. These were led by a variety of prominent coaches — John Sherwood from Saviano High Performance Tennis on the return of serve, Casey Curtis on the serve, Belinsky on how to teach the volley, Oscar Borras on pattern recognition, Gaby Paz on the contemporary forehand.
“Everything from technology tools to sports science makes this an exciting time for tennis instruction,” said Drucker, who began editing tennisplayer.net in December ’25. “What a treat it was to gather and work with so many great minds in a setting as lively as RacquetX.”
Drawing on an unsurpassed library of more than 100,000 slow and super slow-motion videos that reveal the mechanics of decades of skilled players, each issue of tennisplayer.net focuses on a single instructional concept. Over the years, tennisplayer.net issues have included stories by many of the world’s most prominent coaches, including Allen Fox, Chris Lewit, Robert Lansdorp, Jim Loehr, Rick Macci, and Jack Groppel.
The March 2026 issue was devoted to the serve, featuring articles by four prominent coaches – former pros Alexandra Stevenson and Rick Meyer contributed, as did longstanding leaders Kyle LaCroix and Peter Freeman.
Future issues will address such topics as the next big things in junior tennis, the transition game, match management, and, come August, an issue devoted strictly to incoming International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee Roger Federer.
“Roger has given fans all over the world so much joy with his beautiful tennis,” said Drucker. “Our thinking is that our community of first-rate instructors is best-equipped to dissect how he did that – even what other players can learn from Roger and apply to their own tennis.”
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