One player starts as the champion. They start on the court by alone. The other players line up on the opposite court. The challenger always starts with the first shot into the yellow court. The point starts and the champion will get 1 point every time they win. If they lose the challenger becomes the champion and moves to this side of the court.
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The challenger should try to attack the backhand side of the champion or the weaker side.
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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