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Coach feeds balls to the deuce side.
Player hits 4 balls aiming at 4 different zones.
Player hits deep cross-court, deep down the line, short cross-court and short down the line.

COACHING POINTS

In this drill player works on ability to hit balls with different depths. Being able to control shots in 4 zones gives opportunity to move opponent around the court and expect to get easier ball to finish the point. Coach should ask players for necessary technical changes between deep and short balls and see if they understand these requirements. To make this exercise more difficult coach can change difficulty of own feeding or add recovery positions on the court.

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9 spots to AD:

Cones are set in the ad corner.
Coach feeds 3 kinds of balls: deep, medium and short in 3 directions: deuce, middle, ad.
Player hits offensive shot to the ad and recovers back to the middle after every shot.

Forehand Drills

3 variations on the forehand side:

Cones are set in the deuce corner. The coach feeds 3 balls to the forehand side. The player executes forehand after the bounce, forehand drive in the air, and forehand volley in cross-court direction.

Forehand Drills

Attacking forehands on the move:

Coach feeds three balls per player from the basket.

Players should aim to hit the targets (as in diagram - can use cones to mark out targets).

The aim is to encourage players to progressively attack on the move.

Forehand Drills

1 High 1 Low - Forehand:

In this exercise, the coach feeds all the balls to one side. The player's goal is to alternate shots with higher and lower trajectory over the net, firstly hitting a high shot, followed by a low shot, and this is repeated.

Forehand Drills

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