This session covers controlling the direction and contact point of the backhand, then working on consistent hitting towards one side of the court before opening the rally up by hitting cross court.
We also look at the most important part of the rally, the serve and return. Getting the serve and return spot on, will put you in a position to be winning the point.
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.