This crafty shot is a great way for your players to change their pattern of play, catch their opponent on the wrong-foot and force more errors from their opponent!
To help your players grow in confidence and develop this tactic to their game this session encourages players to not always hit into the obvious space but instead play the ball in the space that's just opened up behind their opponent - forcing them to turn sharply and play their shot on the back foot!
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.