Tennis can be a long game and requires concentration, stamina and skill (who can forget Isner v Mahut match (see video) at last year's Wimbledon, which lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes!
This match lasted as long as it did because both players were not thinking too far ahead and were playing the game one shot at a time!
Designed to work several players at once this week's session will really get your players working and thinking hard - playing the game one shot at a time!
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.