ABOUT
What is RACQIX Academy?
RACQIX Academy is an interactive tennis decision-making academy, published by RACQIX. It is not a library of videos to watch and not a game to beat. It is practice for the part of tennis that happens between the shots: recognising what a situation calls for, and choosing well under pressure.
How a lesson works
Each of the 50 lessons plays a short rally and stops at a real decision — the moment a point asks something of you. You choose between two or three credible shots. The rally then plays out the consequence of your choice, honestly: a good read can still lose to a brilliant reply, and a poor one sometimes gets away with it. Underneath, the lesson explains why the choice worked or did not — the contact, the space, the margin — and your first read, your improvement and your earned mastery are kept as separate, honest records.
Ways to practise
New players can start with Your first six reads: one real decision in each of six simulation-built lessons, across six patterns, played in a single run that ends with a summary of the reads you made — a starting point, not a rating. Today’s Read features one decision a day from the simulation-built lessons: the same read for everyone that day, a fresh one tomorrow.
Any pattern can also be trained as a run — its lessons played back to back, unattempted ones first. Big-Point Training gathers the six pressure-and-defence lessons and frames each one as a score situation: break point, 4-4, the tiebreak. One honest limit, stated in the app itself: the simulated opponent plays the same whatever the score says — it does not tighten, choke or raise its level, because the simulation does not model nerves. The pressure is the situation around the decision, and that is the part you can train.
Beat Your Nemesis offers four practice paths — Beat the Pusher, Beat the Counterpuncher, Beat the Net Rusher and Beat the Moonballer — each a set of lessons chosen for the situations that style of opponent creates. The opponent inside the lessons does not change style; the style lives in the lessons chosen. In the My Opponent lab you can shape an opponent with sliders and watch it play, compare the same rally on slow, medium and fast courts, follow the ball’s flight with a tracer, and share a setup by link. The lab is an exhibition: nothing there is scored.
Everything you play feeds My Progress, kept in your own browser. Your Reads groups your first reads by pattern and, once a pattern has three or more first reads behind it, names the one most worth working on. Review Your Misses queues the reads you have not yet redeemed — weakest first; it is a weakness order, not spaced repetition, because the records hold no dates. Your Week of Reads shows this browser’s daily reads for the last seven days.
Two kinds of lesson, labelled
Sixteen lessons are simulation-built: their outcomes are worked out by a court simulation in your browser, not written in advance. The other thirty-four are original lessons from the Academy’s first set, with authored outcomes. Every page and every lesson says which kind it is. The simulation is an illustrative teaching model (Level 1): it is there to make consequences visible, and no point-win probabilities are claimed for it.
Patterns and articles
The lessons are organised around twelve tactical patterns — the crosscourt diagonal, serve and the first ball, the inside-out forehand and more — and the pattern pages index which lessons train each one. A separate, standalone Patterns product is not built yet, and these pages do not pretend otherwise. The blog teaches the same ideas in short articles, each linked to the lessons behind it.
Free
Every lesson in the Academy is free — $0, stated plainly. Your first lesson opens with no sign-up; opening the rest asks for an email address and marketing consent, and then all 50 lessons unlock on your browser. Declining is one tap, and it leaves the lesson you opened, the lesson library and every page on this site available. There is no account and no password; your progress is stored in your own browser, on your own device (see the privacy policy).