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Tennis Tactics
The half of tennis nobody teaches beginners: where to hit, and why.
Tennis Tactics is a beginner's course in the half of tennis nobody teaches you: where to stand, where to aim, and what to do in each situation. Every lesson is a short conversation with Rocco — a raccoon coach — built on a court diagram and one real match decision you have to make.
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The problem
A beginner's first year is all mechanics — grip, swing, follow-through. Meanwhile they lose points to things no one has mentioned: standing on the centre mark, aiming at lines, going for winners off defensive balls. Tactics are treated as an advanced topic, and they are the cheapest points on the court.
Why now
Beginner tactics is the one part of coaching that scales to an app. It needs no camera, no wearable, no AI — it needs a diagram and a question. So the whole course fits in the download and works offline, which is where beginners actually are: on a bench between sets, with no signal.
Why I'm building this
The tactical mistakes that cost a beginner matches are the same fifteen mistakes, every time, and they can all be drawn on one court diagram. Nobody teaches them early because they sound advanced. They aren't — they're just unglamorous. I made the unglamorous part a five-minute conversation with a raccoon.
— Can Ayan, founder
How it works
Answer two questions
What would make this worth it, and how much have you played. Three taps to your first lesson.
Have the conversation
Rocco makes a point, shows you the court, and asks what you'd do. One decision per screen.
Take it to the court
Each lesson ends on one rule you can use in your next match. Finished lessons replay free, forever.
Inside the app
The hook
The half of tennis nobody teaches beginners.
The course
The whole course on one rail — the next lesson is ringed.
The diagram
Where to stand and where to aim, on a real court layout.
The decision
One match situation, three plausible answers, one right one.
The payoff
XP, streak and a chapter badge — then straight to the next lesson.
Side quest
At the net while your partner serves — do you know where it is going?
What it does
A diagram for every rule
Each lesson draws the court and shows you the shot — the target zone, the recovery step, the ball that gets you punished. Every rule gets its own diagram, without exception.
Rocco asks, you answer
The course is a conversation, not a page. He poses the situation, you pick what you'd do, and a wrong answer gets you what that choice costs — then another go at the same question.
Side quests for specific gaps
When Rocco finds a hole he opens a focused set. The first: you're at the net, your partner is about to serve — do you actually know where it's going?
Works with no signal
The whole course ships inside the download. Learn on the bench, at the club, on a plane. No account, no sign-up, and nothing about you is collected.
Free
ForeverThe complete core experience.
- ✓Chapter 1 in full — six lessons on court geometry, no account needed
- ✓One lesson a day from the rest of the course
- ✓Every court diagram and every scenario question
- ✓Replay any lesson you have finished, forever
- ✓Works entirely offline
Premium
ProMonthly · Yearly · 3-day free trial on the yearly plan
Pricing subject to change at launch
- ★Every chapter and every side quest, start to finish
- ★No daily limit
- ★Every side quest Rocco opens
Updates · last few weeks
Aug 18, 2026
feature
Every lesson is hand-written
All 35 conversations are now written rather than derived from the lesson prose — five chapters plus the doubles side quest. A test asserts it, so a lesson can no longer ship without its dialogue.
Aug 17, 2026
decision
Rocco arrived
The course became a conversation with a raccoon coach instead of a readable lesson page. Drawn in SwiftUI rather than shipped as an image set, so every expression animates and the app gains no dependency.
Aug 16, 2026
decision
Built with no backend, on purpose
The whole course ships in the binary. No Firebase, no accounts, no analytics — which is what makes it work offline and keeps the privacy label empty.
Audience & signal
Adults in their first year or two of tennis, returning players, and juniors' parents looking for something to do between lessons.
- ·Every lesson hand-written, each with its own court diagram and a scenario question
- ·Works fully offline — App Privacy label is Data Not Collected, with no account and no SDKs
- ·Sits beside DropVolley rather than competing: that one trains committed club players, this one starts from zero
- ·Not yet submitted — building in the open, and the waitlist gets the TestFlight first