This week we're helping your players improve the consistency and placement of their backhand strokes.
Players often have weaker backhands than forehands, so it is important that players regularly work on this to stop it becoming a weakness in their game.
What's in the Session?
Packed with great live ball drills, we start with a fun drill that uses the doubles alley as a target before working on hitting strokes from different parts of the court (deep, middle and short). Drills also cover controlling direction, recovering quickly and opening up the court by using the angle.
Indoor courts give players less time and less room. Help them sharpen their split step, shorten their swing and stay calm, and winter becomes a season of real progress.
A tiebreak is a short sprint where every point is worth the same as a break of serve. The players who win them are rarely the ones who hit hardest. Here is how to coach the patterns, habits and scoreboard thinking that win the big points.
Most club players practise the serve on its own and then have no idea what to do with the ball that comes back. Serve plus one is the pattern that turns a good serve into a won point.