Player puts legs on bench and performs push-ups.
In this drill, Player works on their upper-body strength. Doing push-ups is a great way to warm up or to work on strength so players should incorporate these exercises into weekly routine. It is important to change difficulty of this drill to constantly improve, so one of the variations is to put legs higher than the rest of the body.
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.