Players perform their regular warm up routines based on running, jump rope and dynamic stretching.
Players rally together to warm up all strokes.
Coach prepares specific exercises to start improving from the beginning:
The first ten minutes of the practice are as important as the last 10 so a proper mental and physical approach is needed to improve skills.
The coach should pay attention to player's focus to ensure they have a professional attitude from the beginning of the session.
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.
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