Tennis Drills

Player side steps until the coach drops a ball. The player must catch the ball before the second bounce. Players can also start from a stationary position with heels of the ground or hopping on one leg or criss crossing the legs or with player starting with their back to coach and the coach shouting out when throwing the ball.

Players work in groups of 2-6. Players get in a circle and attempt to keep the ball in the air for as long as possible.

Coach feeds the ball from centre of court to the players backhand. Players moves from the centre to hit the backhand down the line then recover back to the middle and move to hit a forehand down the line.

Dead ball drill. Coach is stationed on position 2 and players start off middle baseline and moves to forehand then 2nd shot on back hand

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.

In this exercise, the coach feeds all the balls to one side. The player's goal is to alternate shots with higher and lower trajectory over the net, firstly hitting a high shot, followed by a low shot, and this is repeated.

Players start in two lines, one behind the deuce service box and the other behind the advantage box. Coach feeds balls alternately to players on their left and right. Players on the coach's left hit forehands and those on coach's right hit backhands. Players are aiming to put the ball away, as close to the baseline as possible.

Player moves around the cones as fast as possible and hits a forehand down the line.

Coach feeds balls to the deuce side. Player hits 4 balls aiming at 4 different zones. Player hits deep cross-court, deep down the line, short cross-court and short down the line.

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.

Sit close to the wall and put feet up on the wall. Lift your upper body and start throwing the ball overhead against the wall. Player has to maintain straight upper body to make sure that core muscles are working all the time. On the other hand, player also works on shoulders while throwing the ball.

Players stands close to the net. Coach feeds a lob ball. Player hits overhead to the ad side and quickly runs to the net (deuce side). Coach feeds another ball to the deuce side. Player finishes with forehand stop volley down the line.

Player 1 is feeding and can start halfway between the service line and the net with arms outstretched at shoulder height. Player 2 is working, starting in the ready position on the baseline, but remaining active on the spot. Player 1 must drop either of the 2 balls they have outstretched in their hands. As soon as player 2 sees this they must sprint forwards and try to get to the ball after 1 bounce. They then throw the ball back to player 1 and shuffle their feet moving backwards in a relaxed way to get into the start position for the next feed.

Player stands on the baseline Coach stands in front of the player Coach alternates feeding short and deep balls to the backhand side Player hits backhand slice alternating loading front and back leg before the hit

The coach throws an easy ball to the player who hits a forehand shot back to the coach. The Coach then throws the ball back again but this time the player hits a forehand shot to the open space (deuce side) where the cones are situated.

Coach stands on the player's side of the court and feeds the ball with the racquet off the ground. Player moves forward and hits an aggressive forehand.