Monday, January 2, 2012

Fun Tennis Drills

By Anthony Jones


Tennis teachers usually have a great number of tennis drills to use for a single tennis court. Since most tennis coaches start their career by teaching private lessons or smaller groups, they soon become quite comfortable teaching their tennis drills on one court. However, under certain circumstances, teaching pros have to adjust to using multiple tennis courts. Such instances are teaching high school or college tennis teams, tennis camps, or a league team. Many tennis coaches freeze up when it comes to dealing with large groups on multiple courts. Here are three tennis drills to use on multiple tennis courts to help struggling tennis coaches.

The first drill is called "Deep Shot Warm-Up". The player and the instructor start at the opposite baselines. The player tries to hit every ball between the service line and the baseline. The instructor keeps the ball in play by hitting it back to the player. The drill ends when the player reaches 30 points. For more advanced players the instructor can place a line of balls halfway between his service line and baseline. The player has to hit all balls behind this line. As the name indicates, this is a great warm-up tennis drill.

The next drill is called the "21 Point Drill". The drill is played on two tennis courts. One player starts at each baseline on both courts. The rest of the players line up between the courts at the net post.

The players on both courts play out the point against each other. The winning players stay in and the losing players go to the end of the line in the middle. The first player in line replaces the losing player. Players collect points individually. The first player to reach 21 points is the winner. This tennis drill can be used even with different level players.

The last game is called "Jabba the Hut". Exactly 6 players are needed for this drill with 3 player teams on each side. One player in each team kneels down at the T on their side. The other players are at the baseline. The instructor feeds the ball from the net post to one of the baseline players.

At a random time the instructor will hit a short ball and yells out "short". From that point the player can also hit the ball wherever he wants to. He approaches the net and plays out the point against the instructor. Once he scores five points, the instructor moves to the ad side and the drill is repeated. More advanced players can only hit the approach shot down the line. This is a great tennis drill to work on approach shots.

These are just a few tennis drills that help to accommodate a large number of tennis players on multiple courts. Tennis professionals have to be flexible to be able to adapt to unexpected circumstances. They have to know a great number of tennis drills to be able to improvise in any situation. This knowledge of tennis drills separates the best coaches from the good ones.




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