At a higher level, players will have to draw upon a greater variation of shots to win points. That’s why soft skills and deft shots are an excellent attribute to have.
During the competition, players have to react to many different balls and use shots that are rarely practiced. Practicing these specific scenarios from time to time should be incorporated into training to make players prepared for demands of the competition.
Players, who can mix up offensive shots with controlled drop shots, are really difficult to beat because opponents never know where they should stand on the court to prepare for the next shot.
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.
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