Player jumps with the jump rope while moving forward and backward. Player alternates legs while jumping.
This exercise is a great warming up tool to raise the heart rate and also to work on coordination, agility and speed. Players should always use the jump rope when preparing for practice or a game.
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.