In the modern game, the backhand slice is becoming an essential shot in your player’s arsenal. Develop and improve your player’s backhand slice, providing variation and mixing it up during a rally - and catch the opposition unaware! It’s also crucial that your players play the correct shot at the right time, executing it to perfection to put them on top during a rally. Get your players thinking tactically and making those correct decisions to win them games!
What’s in the Session?
Start off with a quick agility drill to get your players warmed up and on their toes, before teaching your players to learn the backspin with a simple drill - for your more advanced players, you can vary the drill for progression. Develop this skill further with some more simple yet effective drills, before we finish with a couple of rallying drills so your players can put their newly-learned skills into practice!
Indoor courts give players less time and less room. Help them sharpen their split step, shorten their swing and stay calm, and winter becomes a season of real progress.
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.
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