Tennis: Donkey

Find out how coordinated your players are with this fun peripheral vision and alternative hand skills session

Bring new ideas to your warm ups and focus on agility, fast footwork and improving reactions times - All essential speed elements in any player's game

Player side steps until the coach drops a ball.

The player must catch the ball before the second bounce. Players can also start from a stationary position with heels of the ground or hopping on one leg or criss crossing the legs or with player starting with their back to coach and the coach shouting out when throwing the ball.

Separate the whole group into teams of around 5-6. Each team nominates a player to feed first.

When ready the feeder throws the ball to each player consecutively until the team has caught 5 balls.

The team getting to 5 first shouts Five Alive and win the first point.

A new feeder is selected by each team, and the next round begins.

-Players hit one shot each and if they return it into court they return to the back of the queue, if they make a mistake they become a ghost.
-Ghosts must go to the same end as the feeder. If they catch a ball before it bounces they come back to life again (swapping with the person who hit that ball).
-The winner is the player who is last one alive!!

Rally with the coach in a round robin system.

• Players hit one shot and then run to the back of the queue.

For variation use one racquet. After each shot players must pass the racquet on to the next player.