Tennis: Shake on it!

This is a simple relay race through the cones with some fun variations for your players:

1. First person in each team balances the ball on their strings moving around the cones to the net and back (like an egg and spoon race)
   
   
2. The ball is then passed to the strings of the person next in line, who repeat the run
   
   
3. The first team to finish wins the race

This is a speed development drill for tennis.

Players line up along the outer tram line to start the race.

Players run to the inner tram line and return back to the outer line, without stopping they run to the centre service line and return again, and then continue also run to both tram lines at the far end.

The players will touch each line with their hand before moving to the next line.

Players stand opposite one another in the service boxes and play the point out.

However, this time, the ball must be hit down into the court so that it bounces on the player's own side before it goes over the net (like in table tennis). The ball cannot therefore bounce before the opposing player makes contact with it themselves.

Points can be played up to 21 in this way.

-Pick two teams, one team are the hitters, the other the runners.
-The hitters take it in turns to hit the ball over the net, back to the feeder or to a designated area.The coach has to choose the target according to players level of ability.
-The team scores a point each time a shot is hit to the agreed target.
-The runners take it in turn to run around the outside of the court, back to the team like relay race.
-Once all of the running team have done a round they shout stop, and the points of the hitting team freeze.
-The teams then swap sides and the new hitting team has to beat their score.