This week we're teaching your players to use the overhead smash like a pro!
Despite being one of the least practiced shots in tennis, the overhead smash is often the final shot in a point as players use it to kill off their opponent. It is a shot the top players make look easy, and now your players can too thanks to this session.
Packed with video drills that slowly build up your players' ability to smash their way to victory, you'll notice an improvement in their smashes immediately, and you can guarantee that the players will find it fun and exciting!
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.
Wimbledon has just crowned another champion, and if you watched closely you saw the same thing every year: the best returners quietly won the tournament. Here is how to coach a return that pressures the server rather than just surviving it.