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Tennis: No Late Volleys

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Player stands inside the service box.
Coach/partner stands next to the player with their racket touching the players shoulder.
Player shadows a backhand volley without touching the partner's racket while in their backswing.

COACHING POINTS

To achieve control over a volley, players should maintain point of contact in front of the body.
It simply means that all actions before hitting the ball should increase the chance of meeting the ball in front of the body.
Knowing that players have to react at the net and make shots in a split second, a short backswing is necessary to be able to do this.
After shadowing, the player should try to hit some balls (still with partner on their side) to see if the backswing isn't impacted when more factors are included in the exercise.

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Sharpening up!:

Players 1 and 2 are at the net, player 3 is working from the baseline.

The point is live as soon as the first ball is fed in from the volleyers with tramlines being out for both ends.

However, the volleying players cannot hit a clean winner to win the point, they must force player 3 into making an error to score.

Player 3 can do whatever they wish with the ball to win the point, they also win the point if they can make the ball bounce before the volleyers can get to it.

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Net game to deuce:

Cones are set in the deuce corner, whilst the player stands at the net. The coach feeds random balls, with the player hitting a volley/overhead to the deuce side.

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Racket Block:

Player stands inside the service box with a racket.
Coach feeds a short ball that bounces right in front of player.
Player steps forward with right leg and using the racket to block the ball just after the bounce.

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Rally Right After The Bounce:

Coach stands at the net.
Player starts from the service line.
Coach and player rally together.
Player hits only forehand half volleys while coach is using only regular volleys.

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