Player stands on balance platforms with both legs. Player tries to maintain balance.
In this drill player works on balance and focus at the same time. Player has to control body and mind to maintain position on unstable platforms. For more advanced players coach can make them progress and ask them to close their eyes. Lack of visual feedback makes this drill much harder.
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.