Player A serves softly from between the service line and the base line and player B has to return across the court. The point only begins when player A makes their first volley. The first player to 7 points then swap
Progression - As above but server starts from baseline
As above if the server can make 1st volley a winner then an extra two points can be scored.
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.
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