Traditional winners but with a partner the whole time. So if one person misses, BOTH partners must touch either the back fence, side fence or net before they can hit a ball in the next point. Stay in until a winner is hit on you, then they switch out with the next team waiting in line at the net post.
Keep the feeds quick. As soon as a point ends, feed the next ball in order to give the other team a great shot at a winner.
Encourage kids to get creative with the types of winners they hit. If both players ran to the net to touch, try a lob. If both ran to the back fence to touch, try a drop shot. Be creative and read the right shot.
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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