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Tennis: Backspin Consistency

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DESCRIPTION

Player stands on the baseline.
Coach feeds balls to the ad side.
Player executes deep backhand slice down the line.

COACHING POINTS

Players works on consistency of the backhand slice down the line.
Most of the time, players want to hit the slice in a cross-direction but it puts the ball to the opponent's backhand and the rival can easily respond with the same kind of shot.
Many players don't have the same quality of slice on the forehand side so they will have to work much harder to answer slice balls with effective topspin.
Players, who can change direction of the rally with slice, can use this weapon on low-bouncing surfaces or against players who hold the racket for the forehand with western grip.

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OFTEN USED WITH...

Alley Ralley (Forehands and Backhands):

Players position on centre of doubles alley and rallies both forhand and backhand

Rally Drills

Backhand Slice Return - Get Back To The Old Times:

Player waits for the serve on the ad side.
Coach serves wide from the ad side.
Player executes deep backhand slice return in cross-court direction.

Serve and Return

Ball drop rally:

Play on a 1/2 court (so you can have two games going at the same time).

2 players close to the net. Start the point from 1 player balancing the ball on the net and letting go. When the ball drops into the court it is allowed to bounce once.

After this they play a volley rally over the net to try and win the point.

Rally Drills

Good court positioning:

-Learning correct positions enhances court coverage and enables the player to respond to the most likely shot placements by the opponent.
-Place 4 markers in a diamond shape around the centre of the baseline. Start by the coach telling the player to move to a correct marker after each shot.(Using forward, back, left, right commands.

Rally Drills

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