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Tennis: Serve and Volley

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DESCRIPTION

-Player serves diagonally to returner / feeder who hits cross court.
-Server moves forward and volleys back to returner / feeder.
-Returner / feeder hits a short low ball to the net players feet.
-The returner / feeder then plays out the point.
-Lobs are only allowed after a minimum of two volleys.

COACHING POINTS

If the returner struggles to hit to specific directions then they can feed in the first two shots and only play out in a 'live situation' after the low volley by server.

Remind the volleyer to maintain a low stance to help with 'picking up' the low volley from their feet.

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Serve Placement:

Divide the box into 3 areas using TDL (Throw down lines)

First person to hit each area 3 times on both the deuce and advantage boxes is the winner

Progression - The server has to say which area they are going to serve into if the serve lands in that area and they win the point they get a bonus point

Serve and Return

Serve and Volley:

Player 1 serves a 1st Serve and follows it in to hit a volley. If returner is finding it hard then serve a 2nd serve. Serve volley behind the returner i.e. to the same direction that the ball came from to wrong foot the opponent.

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Serve and Volley - Low returns:

Player A serves softly from between the service line and the base line and player B has to return across the court. The point only begins when player A makes their first volley. The first player to 7 points then swap

Progression - As above but server starts from baseline

As above if the server can make 1st volley a winner then an extra two points can be scored.

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Serve, Volley:

-Student serves, the player has to split step before the feeder makes contact with the ball.
-This drill was used to demonstrate that one server and one feeder can hit 6 balls in 35 seconds while four servers and one feeder can hit 21 balls in the same amount of time.

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