Coach rallies with player. Player alternates hitting forehand and catching/throwing forehand.
First athlete then tennis player. This phrase should be a priority for coaches working with young players.
Young players have to develop plenty of athletic skills to be able to become decent tennis players so early specialisation is an old and ineffective way to teach tennis.
Coaches should make sure that drills include development of tennis-specific and general skills at the same time to use 100 % of young players' possibilities to improve.
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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