Cones are set in front of the player. Coach stands behind the player and tosses the ball over the players' head.
Player runs forward, catches the ball on the racquet and run around the cones without dropping the ball.
This drill is a good starting point to work on reaction and dynamic control. To make it more interesting, coach can make a time-competition between the teams to increase motivation.
This drill is a good starting point to work on reaction and dynamic control. To make it more interesting, coach can make a time-competition between the teams to increase motivation.
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.
Wimbledon has just crowned another champion, and if you watched closely you saw the same thing every year: the best returners quietly won the tournament. Here is how to coach a return that pressures the server rather than just surviving it.
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