Players line up behind baseline. Place 2 rackets into net as height obstacles. Coach drop feeds from forehand corner. Player must use C swing to hit topsin to forehand corner. 1pt for shot into area. If they hit the target they win. 1st 2 players to 5 points wins.
Using a large C swing for generating topspin is important for improving rally and moving opponents outside the court while reducing errors.
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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