Tennis can be a long game and requires concentration, stamina and skill. Although thinking ahead can be good it is important that players concentrate on the shot they are playing and think about how they can improve their game, spot weaknesses in their opponent's and play the game one shot at a time!
In this two hour session we use a series of games to get your players thinking - By imposing restrictions on some of these games and not on others you can encourage players to stop and think about how they are playing the game and whether they might be more successful if they adopted a different strategy.
Designed to work several players at once, on one court or two, this session will really get your players working and thinking hard!
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.