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Tennis: One Unit

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Player imitates forehand stroke, focussing on taking the racquet back with the non-dominant hand.

COACHING POINTS

The forehand is one of the most used strokes in tennis so proper technique is crucial to becoming a successful player. Modern tennis players take tremendous power from the body's turns.

Coaches should implement this action into every stroke; especially into groundstrokes. In this technical exercise, coach teaches player to work as a one unit. It means that turn should be executed using whole upper body. Non-dominant hand plays a primary role to facilitate the shoulder turn and to allow the dominant hand to relax before the swing.

Many players make a mistake by using a dominant hand to take a backswing which results in less power generated by upper body as also in mishitting the ball because of the early opening of the shoulders. After shadows, it is important to go through hand feed and basket drills to see improvements in more difficult situations.

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Forehand Technique

Are your players using the correct forehand technique? Help them perfect it in this fun and innovative session!

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Contact With Coach:

The coach stands in front of the player and keeps their racquet facing the player, holding it in the same position.

The player imitates a forehand and moves their racquet forward to touch the coach's racquet.

Forehand Drills

Backswing Loop:

The coach stands next to the player and keeps their racquet in a horizontal position.

The player moves their racquet over and under the coach's racquet to imitate a forehand stroke.

Forehand Drills

Comfortable New Grip:

Player inserts a pen between the hand and the racquet's grip. Player imitates forehand without changing a grip.

In this exercise, the pen is a valuable tool that will do all the work for the coach. Every time the player tries to change the grip to the old one, they will feel it because of the pen. After imitating, the coach should toss or feed balls to challenge players at the early stages of grip's change.

Forehand Drills

Call Hand Drill:

Coach stands in front of the player and throws the ball. The player moves left and right and catches the ball.

However, when the coach throws the ball, they shout "right" or left", and the player must catch the ball with this hand, regardless of what side of the body the ball comes to.

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