Practicing Soft Touch from Varied Distances
Practicing control and soft touch is crucial in tennis, especially when playing at different distances. In this drill, t...
Practicing Slice and Topspin with a partner using the wall
In this tennis wall drill, one player is designated to hit topspin shots while the other player focuses on executing sli...
Stopping the Body Momentum
This drill focuses on using one powerful step to stop your momentum while staying centered.
Calling Split Step
In tennis, mastering the split step is essential for effective movement on the court. This simple yet powerful technique...
Recover effectively using cross over steps
Crossover steps are crucial for distant shots, ensuring effective ball approach and execution.
Improving the Split Step
Here is a very effective way to work on the split step. Players starts between the baseline and service line. As the c...
Tarnish colors
Speed begins with mental processing. A square area is set up with cones in 4 distinct colors. When instructed by the coa...
Thinking and acting through colors
These color combinations are designed to engage players in critical thinking before taking action. Players are required...
Grabbing cones with movement task as a competition
For this task, we need two benches (or more for additional players), colored marker cones and a ball for the middle. Two...
Warm up strokes with change of groundstroke after optical color signal
The players hit through the middle of the mini tennis court. When the coach presents the cone in red, they use the Foreh...
Tennis exercise on a mini tennis court: warming up strokes with a cognitive challenge
Two players go out for a rally, with one of them volleying. The coach specifies a color that the volley player must grab...
Warm up strokes at the net with task change according to color indication
In the mini tennis court, we combine warming up strokes with a cognitive challenge. The coach gives us a color that we h...
Improve covering with additional task
Here we improve warming up strokes and covering in the small court and combine warming up strokes with a cognitive chall...
Change volley and groundstroke after optical color signal
The players hit each other through the center of the small court. When the coach presents the cone in red, they volley e...
Change topspin and slice according to optical color signal
The players hit through the center of the small court. When the coach presents the cone in red, they play slice on every...
Forehand Tracking and Loading
The kids should catch the ball with their free hand to the side in front of their body. Ideally on the side of the Foreh...
Backhand Tracking and Loading
The kids should catch the ball with their non-dominant hand to the side in front of their body. Ideally on the side of t...
Stay vigilant after the Serve
The kids warm up strokes with the Serve. After the serve, they add another stroke (Serve plus 1) and play it to the retu...
Maintain the intensity after the return
The kids warm up strokes with the return. The return must be returned to the Serve player, who should also return the ba...
Stroke training: responding crosscourt when receiving a down the line shot
Here, our Orange kids set up the rally on the safe crosscourt side. One player can then switch to down the line, then th...
Points: Down the line opens up the point
The players set up a crosscourt rally: as soon as one player plays the ball down the line, both players can immediately...
Approaching off the return
The return is used to attack. The partner takes over the sparring function and should play the ball to the approaching p...
Orange kids practicing serve and volley
Our Orange kids practicing serve and volley. The Serve is used to attack. The partner takes over the sparring function a...
Points returning and coming in
The return player must attack the serve and approach the net. The point is played out. The server therefore has an immed...