HOME Tennis Drills Smash Drills

Tennis: Smash and Run

Your tennis drills are extremely useful coaching tools.

Nail, Tennis coach

DESCRIPTION

Players take it in turns to step into the court, tap the net with their racket and smash back the high feed from the coach.

After repeating this twice (making sure they hit the net before each shot) players run over to the ladder on the far side of the court and perform a fast feet exercise of your choice (cross-over steps, both feet in each rung...)

COACHING POINTS

After players have hit two balls and run through the ladder they jog around the outside of the court and rejoin the back of the line.

READ MORE

READ LESS

OFTEN USED WITH...

Run and smash:

Every player with a ball each. They have to run to the net while bouncing the ball on their racket. when they get to the net they throw up the ball and smash it across the net after which they have to run back.

First one back is the winner

Smash Drills

Approach and smash:

-2 feeding players, with a basket in the middle.
- Feed a short ball followed by a lob.
- After the approach shot the player smashes the lob.

Smash Drills

volley smash volley smash:

Coach feeds the ball from the backhand side of the court in no mans land.
The first feed is for a volley and the second one is for a smash then one more time and the player moves to the back of the queue

Smash Drills

Touch and Smash:

-Player touches net with racket then coach puts up the lob. The player hits the smash into the back 1/4 of the court.
-On the second feed the player lets the ball bounce before the smash.

Smash Drills

1277283

1010