Cones are set randomly around the court. The player starts from the centre of the baseline and their goal is to touch each cone as fast as possible. Order can be random but player has to recover to the middle after each touch.
Modern tennis is based on speed and power. Players who are slow or can't make few consecutive sprints in a row without dropping quality of their shots won't have consistent good results. Only by performing specific fitness drills designed to improve speed, agility and anaerobic endurance, players will transform into athletes and their performance on the court will improve significantly. To make this drill more interesting, the coach can make a competition between players and set small penalties for losers.
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.
Wimbledon arrives at the end of June and the grass court swing transforms how the game is played. Low bounces, slippery footing, and rewards for forward play demand a different tactical mindset. Here is how to coach it.
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