Hitting the ball into open space
Discover the tips that will help you develop and improve your tennis.
CONTENTS
Drill 1
Use markers to create a football pitch.
Player 1 places a white ball on a marker and tries to score a goal.
They hit five forehands and five backhands
towards a goal defended by Player 2.
Players swap over after 10 shots.
Variation: perform the drill with two goals, giving Player 2 a larger area to cover.
Match
Set up a goal on each side of an imaginary court. The players defend their goal as best they can.
First to seven points wins.
Tennis is a game of precision that involves a lot of legwork. The first educational drill allows children to work on their shots and to defend against each other. Players attack and defend according to the match situation.
Romain Cohen Solal
State-qualified youth and PE coach
My passion? Tennis! But more than anything else, I have a passion for coaching children and watching them develop throughout their sporting careers.I'm going to share Artengo's evolutionary training sessions with you so your juniors can take their game to the next level.