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Tennis: Cross court inside-out forehands

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DESCRIPTION

The coach feeds the first ball in and then players have to keep the rally going, running around the ball to play a cross-court forehand into the coned area.

So player 1 hits the ball to player 1 on the other team who then returns to player 2 and so on.

COACHING POINTS

Encourage players to use correct footwork.

Remind players to hit enough spin to achieve consistency and clearance of the net.

Progression:

Turn this drill into a competition. The team scores a point each time the target area is hit.

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Attacking forehands on the move:

Coach feeds three balls per player from the basket.

Players should aim to hit the targets (as in diagram - can use cones to mark out targets).

The aim is to encourage players to progressively attack on the move.

Forehand Drills

Deep cross court:

-The coach feeds down the line, the player runs to hit the ball cross court into the target area.
First player to 3 shots (or higher if more advanced players) wins the game.
-The drill can then be run similarly from the backhand corner.

Forehand Drills

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

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Alternate Short Forehand/Volley:

Drill is continuous.

Drill takes place witin the service box on each side of the net.

Coach feeds the ball, player returns short forehand, a rally then continues with the player alternating between a short forehand and volley.

Coach to make use of all the service box.

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