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What transfers

The whole reason this project exists: a body fluent in squash and badminton is not a blank slate for tennis — some of what it knows helps, and some of it actively sabotages. Naming which is which before the first lesson is how the wrong habits get caught early instead of grooved deep.

Transfers — spend this inheritance

• Court sense & anticipation — reading the opponent, being where the ball is going. Fully portable.
• Fitness & footwork base — the engine is already built; tennis just moves it over more court.
• Hand-eye & timing — years of tracking a fast object. Real, and rare in a beginner.
• Competitive calm — knowing how to lose a point and play the next one.

Interferes — unlearn this, deliberately

• The squash wrist. Squash rewards a snappy, wristy swing; a tennis groundstroke wants a long, stable arm and a quiet wrist. This is the #1 thing to undo.
• The badminton flick. All in the forearm and wrist — perfect for a net shot, poison for a topspin forehand that needs the whole body.
• Standing too upright / too close. Both other sports play tighter to the body; tennis wants a lower base and more space to swing.

Brand new — no shortcut, build from zero

• The long groundstroke — full backswing, topspin brush, follow-through over the shoulder.
• The serve — resembles nothing in squash or badminton. Its own mini-project.
• The big-court geometry — angles and depth over a court many times larger.