
The Three Ball Drill Left is a warm up exercise to be used to get the players warmed up and used to hitting the ball. It also helps to promote movement. For right handed players this drill will be to the forehand side. If you have a left handed player, have them accomplish it as back-hands.
You can use this drill as a warm up or a way to help focus on hitting forehand groundstrokes. If you are teaching younger players such as 8u and 10u, simply move the player in to their traditional baseline for their game.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
Indoor courts give players less time and less room. Help them sharpen their split step, shorten their swing and stay calm, and winter becomes a season of real progress.
A tiebreak is a short sprint where every point is worth the same as a break of serve. The players who win them are rarely the ones who hit hardest. Here is how to coach the patterns, habits and scoreboard thinking that win the big points.
Most club players practise the serve on its own and then have no idea what to do with the ball that comes back. Serve plus one is the pattern that turns a good serve into a won point.