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.
Four technical nightmares creep into club tennis every season. Here are the drills that banish them for good.
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.
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