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Tennis: React & Finish Down the Line

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DESCRIPTION

  • Player stands at the net and rallies with coach on the baseline.
  • Player hits 2 deep backhand volleys down the line and 1 forehand stop volley down the line.

COACHING POINTS

  • In this drill player works on control while hitting deep and short volleys.
  • Keeping the ball deep is important to get time for reaching a better position on the court and also forces the rival to move behind the baseline and make it more difficult for them to hit successful passing shot.
  • Additionally player should be able to execute well-controlled stop volley to take advantage of the big distance that the rival has from their starting position to the bounce of the ball.
  • Player should remember to hit the ball with a lot of backspin and high over the net to allow the ball bounce short and stay there even after second bounce.
  • For more advanced level, the coach can evolve this drill into a more reaction and make baseline player hit down the line anytime she wants.

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Players 1 and 2 are at the net, player 3 is working from the baseline.

The point is live as soon as the first ball is fed in from the volleyers with tramlines being out for both ends.

However, the volleying players cannot hit a clean winner to win the point, they must force player 3 into making an error to score.

Player 3 can do whatever they wish with the ball to win the point, they also win the point if they can make the ball bounce before the volleyers can get to it.

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