Players play a single point. The ball is put into play as a underhand shot. The player who loses the point switches with their teammate. The next teammate (D) puts the next ball into play to continue the rally with the opponent, this should be done with intensity. Once a player won 3 points in a row, the ralley is ended and the team of the player earns a Rally-Point and they switch with a teammate. The game goes as long till one Team earns 5 Rally-Points.
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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