Beguiners drill groundstrokes FH and BH (FH or BH first) The leader will feed the short balls to the FH to the player furthest at the right first. Alternate the ball feed every other player in a way that one player in each half of the court will hit a ball. Use half of the court for 2 players and the other half for the other 2 players. Once the drill is assimilated players how do not hit the ball can do a shadow swing to train their motion
Goal: Low intensity drill. The hits have to be maintained as minitennis. Work on control and technic
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
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