The player move side-to-side between the cones, and alternates crossing the cones with outside leg and with both legs.
Ability to quickly change direction is a priority in modern tennis because of the speed of the game. Players have to learn how to quickly push from the outside leg and move to the other side without using too many steps. This drill is a good exercise to work on speed, quickness and change of direction.
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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