The player slightly bends knees and maintains straight upper body. The player keeps dumbbells in both hands and perform pulling action with both hands at the same time.
In this drill, the player works on strength of the back. Back muscles pay crucial role in maintaining proper body posture on and off the court so players have to work on these muscles to make sure that requirements are met. In this particular exercise, it is important to maintain proper technique so the coach has to make sure that upper body is straight and actions are performed by squeezing scapulas and keeping both elbows close to the body.
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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