Player starts in a plank position on their hands. Bring their right foot out to the side and level with their hands. At the same time drop the arm nearest to the foot so that the elbow touches the floor at the same time.
Push off the front foot and walk the hands forward to get back into a lunge position.
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.