Tennis: Warm up: side to side

Develop your players' variety of serve and ability to connect it with the second shot to create tactical opportunities to hit point winning shots.

Players warm up by running and performing dynamic stretches.

The coach should ask players to perform exercises which will help to develop the skills related to the half-volley.

In this warm up set up two cones about 1.5 metres apart. Ask your player to stand facing the cones, then reach down to the cone on his/her left with their right hand.

Then return to the standing position before reaching for the left cone with the right hand.

The player serves from the Deuce side, aiming for the body of the imaginary opponent.

The coach then feeds the ball to the player's backhand side.

The player then has to hit an aggressive forehand inside out by running around to get into position to hit the shot.

The player hits a serve to either the ad or deuce side. The coach, who is in front of the player, then feeds him/her a low ball.

The player has to react quickly after the serve and hit consistently low and flat returns over the net.

Player goes diagonally through the ladder, using only little steps in between each space.

In this drill, player works on speed and coordination. At the beginning, kids should focus more on coordination rather than speed.