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― Bill Patton, Visual Training for Tennis: The Master Guide To Tips, Tricks, Skills and Drills for Best Vision Of The Ball

“Dr. Allen Fox's "Think to Win" and Paul Wardlaw's "Pressure Tennis”
― Bill Patton, Top 5 Strategies and Tactics for Winning Tennis: Move Away from Confusion, Embrace Your Style, and Win those Matches Your Previously Lost

“One of the lost pieces in the over programming of a tennis player is that practice match, or a friendly match just for the love of the game.”
― Bill Patton, Top 5 Strategies and Tactics to Win More Tennis Matches

“Your Fingerprint and The Cyclone Fence Stand at the baseline. Raise your index and with your finger print about 8 to 12 inches from your face. Focus until you can see your fingerprint perfectly. Everything beyond your finger will be out of focus and most likely appear as double vision. From your fingerprint, shift your focus to the far fence, pick a small object on the fence on which to focus, preferably at the same height which you would be looking at the toss. Did you feel your focus shifting away? Take your focus back and forth from your fingerprint to the back fence until you experience your focus traveling back and forth in between these two objects you are taking turns to focus. Shift your focus as smoothly and quickly as possible between the two objects. This will exercise your eyes to smoothly shift focus. Once you begin to feel very comfortable, then experiment with focusing on the far fence all the way to your fingerprint and have your focus shift as fast as possible, as though you were following a ball in flight. Now do this faster and faster. The focus of your eyes, can shift at well over 100 MPH, but the exact number, or if any limit exists is not known by me. Now go and rally some tennis balls and try to maintain focus on the ball during an entire rally.  Of course, when you are tracking you can work to keep the ball fairly close to the center of your vision. Action Items: * Exercise above for up to 5 minutes each day for one week. * After one week, use as 30 second to 1 minute warm up. * Also use when you have been overpowered by speed of shot.”
― Bill Patton, Visual Training for Tennis

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― Bill Patton, Visual Training for Tennis: The Master Guide To Tips, Tricks, Skills and Drills for Best Vision Of The Ball