Coach stands on the player's side of the court and feeds the ball with the racquet off the ground. Player moves forward and hits an aggressive forehand.
Quick reaction and hitting in the high point of contact (shoulder level) are 2 priorities for any player who wants to be more offensive. Running fast gives us more time to prepare and less time for the opponent to react. Hitting around the shoulder level gives us higher margin of errors because we can hit flat and the ball will still go over the net.
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.
Wimbledon has just crowned another champion, and if you watched closely you saw the same thing every year: the best returners quietly won the tournament. Here is how to coach a return that pressures the server rather than just surviving it.
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