Player stands on balance platforms with both legs. Player tries to maintain balance.
In this drill player works on balance and focus at the same time. Player has to control body and mind to maintain position on unstable platforms. For more advanced players coach can make them progress and ask them to close their eyes. Lack of visual feedback makes this drill much harder.
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.