In this drill, Player works on concise movement and baseline strokes. Movement in a figure of 8 puts emphasis on movement in all directions to be able to make the balls: moving inside on shorter balls and recovering behind the baseline after the hit. Coach can make this drill more challenging by increasing the pace of the feed and also by increasing the number of balls in a set.
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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