Tennis and Self Discovery

Do you want to learn Tennis or the steps to improve? Dr. Melo explains the essential link between movement and personality for quicker results. To progress, players must develop an accurate image of the strokes and the tennis personality type behind them. This is achieved with the modalities of ‘attention’, the greatest tool to regulate our mental energy.



Dr. Melo’s tennis method opens the game to a new group of people. It is presented as an exercise for self awareness by the practice of attention at each position and transition, similar to the martial arts, yoga or dance.



Dr. Melo has been successful with many students. His tennis teaching career began at Northwestern University. He played for Coach Claire Riessen and off-season hired him to manage a summer club in Evanston, Illinois. Later, he taught at various clubs in the Chicago area while getting a Ph.D. in Linguistics.



In the 1980's Dr. Melo taught a tennis clinic at the Himalayan Institute of Science and Philosophy during the summers. He called the method “Tennis and Self discovery”. This book is a version in tennis terms of his graduate studies in movement and the theory of symbols or Semiotics, a branch of Linguistics. Dr. Melo continues to teach private lessons in Sarasota, Florida.