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Tennis: Fun Finishing

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Coach sets up a target (basket). Players compete with each other while trying to throw the ball inside the basket.

COACHING POINTS

It is important that young players finish the practice with fun and interesting exercise to take this memory home and want to come back again. Coach should make competition easy to succeed (short distance from the target/bigger target) to guarantee fair chances for everyone. With younger children, it should be a team competition; older children can compete individually.

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Egg and spoon run:

Players start on the baseline with a ball on their racket strings.

They run up to the net where they swap over the ball with the player on the opposite side of the net.

They then run back to the baseline.

Coordination / Fun Games

Five Alive:

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.

Coordination / Fun Games

Forehand plus development:

Coach rallies with player. Player alternates hitting forehand and catching/throwing forehand.

Forehand Drills

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The coach throws an easy ball to the player who hits a forehand shot back to the coach. The Coach then throws the ball back again but this time the player hits a forehand shot to the open space (deuce side) where the cones are situated.

Forehand Drills

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