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Tennis: Forehand to catch - get your eye in

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Players 1, 2 and 3 feed a ball underarm high over the net to 4, 5 and 6. Players 4, 5 and 6 have rackets and must try and hit the balls back for their partners to catch. After six turns they change around.

COACHING POINTS

Using non-racket hand to point at the ball.

Moving back quickly to hit the ball.

Jumping up to hit the ball if required.

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Deep cross court:

-The coach feeds down the line, the player runs to hit the ball cross court into the target area.
First player to 3 shots (or higher if more advanced players) wins the game.
-The drill can then be run similarly from the backhand corner.

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.

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Cross court inside-out forehands:

The coach feeds the first ball in and then players have to keep the rally going, running around the ball to play a cross-court forehand into the coned area.

So player 1 hits the ball to player 1 on the other team who then returns to player 2 and so on.

Forehand Drills

Deep cross court rally:

-The players rally aiming to hit the target area.
-The players take turns to hit a shot each.
-First team to 10 points wins the game.
-This can be played fom the backhnad conner too.

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