In this drill player links a baseline shot with an offensive response. Focus during the first shot should be placed on depth and solid pace to put stress on rival’s backhand. Additionally player has to be ready so that shot down the line creates good opportunity to put player on the run, therefore high quality has to be developed to be able to execute this offensive strategy. Second ball is a short one so it is a ball that most of the time should result in winner. Players who are successful in the mid-court area have great reactions, footwork and offensive mindset so during practising offensive forehand coach has to put emphasis on more than just technique.
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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