Players rally together, but instead of both players using the racquet, one player uses their legs and feet to control and kick the ball over the net, while the other player does use their racquet before swapping.
This exercise is a great tool to have fun while working on co-ordination skills and also helps players improve their ball perception abilities.
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.