Develop your player's skills to move the opposition around the court with this session, forcing them into mistakes so you can hit the winner!
Make your players awake of the advantage of moving the opposition about the court, controlling the power in their shots, positioning the ball to perfection. By using drills such as Directional Approach, improve important skills such as coming into the net, ensuring that your players are mixing up their play with a variety of shots.
Changing direction with different groundstrokes will also force the opposition into making mistakes, handing the advantage over to your player, ready to finish off the point! Don't let their play become predictable and put pressure on the opposition with this session.
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