Divide your players into teams and all the players start on the same court.
Start with a courtesy feed or the pro’s feed and whoever misses is out.
If one side loses all their players a player from the other side moves to that side until it’s one on one.
The player that wins that point is the survivor and receives three points, the finalists receives one point.
Players then rotate spots and a new point is started.
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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.
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