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