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Tennis: backhand recovery and forehand

I have used many of the tennis drills and as a result my two High...

Linsent, Tennis coach

DESCRIPTION

Players line up on centre move to play a backhand down the linerecovers to the centre and moves to hit a forehand down the line.

COACHING POINTS

Players should take quick adjusting steps and as they get closer to the ball smaller quicker steps should be taken just prior to contact.

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Backhand forehand:

Dead ball drill.
Coach is stationed on position 2 and players start off middle baseline and moves to forehand then 2nd shot on back hand

Forehand & Backhand Drill

backhand and forehand Dead ball:

Coach feeds the ball from centre of court to the players backhand. Players moves from the centre to hit the backhand down the line then recover back to the middle and move to hit a forehand down the line.

Forehand & Backhand Drill

Deep Forehand And Backhand Drill:

Players will be fed 2-6 balls each.

The balls are hit down the line into the target area as marked by the cones.

The feeding can be varied i.e. higher, faster or with more spin.

Forehand & Backhand Drill

Backhand/Forehand/Volley:

Coach, 4 players, 3 targets, and a basket of tennis balls.

Player 1 starts off on the centre of the baseline.

Coach feeds ball 1 to the corner of the singles court for player 1 to play a cross court backhand to target 1.

Coach feeds ball 2 to the opposite side of the court just in front of service box for player 1 to run on to and play a short cross court forehand at target 2.

Coach feeds ball to the centre of the opposite service box for player 1 to run on to and play a backhand volley to target 3.

Player 1 joins the queue.

Drill repeated with player 2/3/4.

Volley Drills

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