The player stands on the service line. Coach then throws a low ball to their forehand side.
The player should then run forward, bend their knees and hits the forehand.
If a player misses too many long balls the coach can teach them how to follow through properly (to the hip). This action guarantees applying heavy topspin to quickly clear the net and still drop inside the court. Traditional extension through the ball and finishing over the left shoulder are not effective while responding to low shots.
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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