This Sportplan session has been designed to instil that "never say die" attitude in your players and get them running to try and earn the point - even if the odds are stacked against them!
In addition to this we work on Serving consistency, accuracy by targeting the corners in the rally and even a bit of mental arithmetic for the scoring system in the final game!
Most of the drills in this session have been designed to have one player working in the full court whilst their partner is on easy street and has the easy job of working in the half court. This way the odds are stacked in the favour of the half-court player and the full-court player might get frustrated, thinking that it's impossible to win the point.
Of course though it's not impossible for them to win, although it is harder. But they should be reminded that it's amazing what just making a few balls in the court can achieve - by running everything down, they'll be putting the half-court player under pressure to be more and more aggressive.
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