Finding fun and effective ways to keep players interested when training is something that even the best coaches struggle with. However, using conditioned games to train skills and simulate live situations is a great way to reward hard-working players whilst also focusing on their key skill areas!
This session works on both attack and defence by sharpening up your players' lob shots whilst also working on how to recover after being lobbed. In this games based session we also take a look at volleying, going to the ball and quick reactions.
Packed full of notes and helpful videos, this games based session will have your players working hard on their technique without them even realising it! Teach your players how to adapt, improvise and overcome!
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.