Divide players into two teams. One team will be hitting backhands and the other team forehands. Both teams start on the same baseline. The coach feeds balls alternating lines. For every shot that lands in a designated area for example, in the singles court or beyond the service line that team receives a point. If a player misses a shot they must run and touch the net and then run back and tag the next player in line. (The coach continues to feed to the other team while a player is running.) The first team to reach 20 wins the first round and then switch sides.
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Indoor courts give players less time and less room. Help them sharpen their split step, shorten their swing and stay calm, and winter becomes a season of real progress.
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.
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