
Points with Serves. "Offensive Player" serves, and is looking to move the ball around, away from the center part of the court marked with cones. "Defensive Player" is just trying to make every ball. Focus on depth and margin, not going for winners. Stay within the cones, away from the sidelines.
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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.