In this drill player works on ability to hit balls with different depths. Being able to control shots in 4 zones gives opportunity to move opponent around the court and expect to get easier ball to finish the point. Coach should ask players for necessary technical changes between deep and short balls and see if they understand these requirements. To make this exercise more difficult coach can change difficulty of own feeding or add recovery positions on the court.
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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