WATCH: Billie Jean King Explains How to Improve Your Tennis Game At Home
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We are all looking for new ways to be constructive during these times of social distancing. Staying at home, without leaving, for a stretch of two weeks or more can get quite challenging. Billie Jean King has just the thing for you if you wish to hone your tennis skills from the comfort of your home.
Tennis practice at home
In a sport like tennis, which is heavily reliant on your skillset, rigorous practice is always key. During these troubling times, we are all forced to stay at home as much as possible.
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Stepping out of your homes would not only be folly on your part, but it could also have repercussions for public health as a whole.
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So how in the world do you practice and improve your game?
With Billie Jean King’s Eye Coach training aid of course!
As the former player showed us herself, the Eye Coach is a simple training aid that enables you to train your eyes to track the ball and improve your form while hitting the ball.
Working on improving my contact point indoors this weekend with the @BJKEyeCoach. #KeepPlaying pic.twitter.com/IpBAKLuXGR
— Billie Jean King (@BillieJeanKing) March 28, 2020
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Billie Jean King revolutionalized the sport of tennis in her time, compelling the world to recognize women as equal to men. Well at least in the sport in the tennis community.
Her fight for gender equality in the sport led to many big events paying both genders equally, the first of which was the US Open.
The 12-time Grand Slam champion was one hell of a player in her prime and if she believes the Eye Coach can improve my game, I’m all for it.
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We might just get a surge of young talents across the globe coming out of the coronavirus situation much better players. Perhaps a few Billie Jean Kings are already in the making.
Now, you don’t have to go out and risk your health for a bit of tennis. So stay home, stay safe and practice away.