Tennis: Length

Purpose:

To learn that errors are costly in singles.

To develop error free point building

Players feed 2 points alternately. Only points lost by an error count on the score. Play up to 7 points. Winners don't score!

Player 1 is working in the whole court but primarily in the red target zone, hitting ONLY fhs: 1 fh cross, and 1 fh inside out.

Player 2 is working in the fh corner and is hitting a forehand back to the centre of the court, middle of the red target zone.

Player 3 is working in the bh corner and is hitting a backhand down the line to the outer edge of the red target zone. 

Player 3 feeds the ball in down the line, player 1 hits a fh cross, player 2 hits a fh down the middle, player 1 runs around the ball and hits an inside out fh back to player 3, and the pattern repeats.

Players are working in the full court and take it in turns to feed the ball in out of their hand.

They are playing the point out as normal but with the stipulation that they are not allowed to hit a winner to win the point! Players must make their best effort to reach balls, it is up to the coach to decide whether they have done this and whether the ball hit was an outright winner - in which case it will not be counted!

Players can play first to 11 points, this can and should take a quite a long time!