The coach tosses the balls to the deuce side. Player's goal is to make many adjustment steps before he hits the forehand.
Tennis is an unpredictable sport. Opponent can give us different balls as also court surface can make the ball more difficult than we expect. That is why players have to always prepare in the best possible way to make sure that the quality of shot is always high.
In this drill, the player works on adjustment steps in the forehand stroke. Many times the whole effort of running and preparing the shot is wasted because of lack of few adjustment steps. By making "too many" adjustment steps players learn the importance of this aspect and they start to use it more consistently during the rally. The coach should always pay attention to these details in all strokes to make sure that players will be able to take the most of each shot.
"It is not only useful for staff who are experienced but a valuable tool for those subject staff who have to take teams."
The variety of sessions across sports - sometimes we steal session ideas from one sport and use them with another.
As we enter the business end of the competition, we take a look at the remaining eight teams and the key talking points surrounding each side.