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Tennis: Attack With Comfort

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Coach alternates feeding low and high short balls to the deuce side.
Player moves inside the court and hits offensive forehand into side zones from both points of contact.

COACHING POINTS

In this drill, players work on offensive skills.
Some players have difficulties while attacking from different points of contacts so practicing attacking forehands from low and high balls will allow players to adapt technically and learn how to approach differently both of these opportunities to finish.
Coach should teach player to use more wrist actions while attacking from low balls as also to take the backswing a little bit higher while dealing with higher balls.
With more advanced players, the coach can send random balls or can change the spin of own balls to make players read the ball before they decide about the best possible solution.

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Aggressive Forehand:

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.

Forehand Drills

All About The Legs:

Cones are set in front of the player inside the service boxes
The coach alternates feeding to the forehand and to the backhand
The player makes a split step over the cones, executes a regular volley and recovers behind the cones to start the action with the other volley too.

Volley Drills

Deal With High Balls:

Coach feeds high and short balls to the deuce side.
Player moves forward and alternates hitting attacking forehand after the bounce and forehand drive volley out of the air.

Forehand Drills

Attack With Courage:

Coach feeds the ball to the ad side.
Player moves forward, hits an attacking backhand cross-court and moves into the net.
Coach hits the ball back, cross-court. The player finishes with a controlled deep backhand volley down the line.

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