Good habits are enhanced by more court time. Permanent habits are created by practice, but they are not always perfect habits. The drills suggested below are a guide for perfect yet systematic practice of your ground strokes using a hitting partner or ball machine to feed you balls.
Any of your ground stokes can be practised systematically by following the suggested directions in the order of consistency, control, spin and speed.
Tennis is a game of error management, winners simply make less errors than losers. Treat your errors as critical feed back rather than condemnation and your systematic practice with these drills will reduce them dramatically.
From the baseline corner of the court have your machine, or practice partner feed as though a cross court rally is in progress. Try to keep the speed of the feeding at your normal level of play.
1.Consistency - 20 strokes in a row, over the net, relatively deep and in court.
2.Control - set 2m by 2m target with some cones deep in the opposite corner from your ball machine/ball feeder, then attempt to hit the target with 20 consecutive shots.
3.Spin - Pick a particular stroke and hit it every ball as you count to 20 for both consistency and control by hitting to or near a target at the opposite corner to the feed.
4.Power - 20 consecutive strokes with a little extra spin and stroke speed to your target.
Your strengths and weaknesses will be exposed by this method giving you the feed back you need to start working on perfecting your strokes. Monitor errors, initially with reference to consistency, then control, then spin and finally power.
I often see players attempt to practice these skills in reverse order, but spin, control and consistency are needed ahead of power. So temper your power until you have your strokes under control.
The results of this kind of practice can be seen on any tennis video of a top 10 ATP or WTA player.
Any of your ground stokes can be practised systematically by following the suggested directions in the order of consistency, control, spin and speed.
Tennis is a game of error management, winners simply make less errors than losers. Treat your errors as critical feed back rather than condemnation and your systematic practice with these drills will reduce them dramatically.
From the baseline corner of the court have your machine, or practice partner feed as though a cross court rally is in progress. Try to keep the speed of the feeding at your normal level of play.
1.Consistency - 20 strokes in a row, over the net, relatively deep and in court.
2.Control - set 2m by 2m target with some cones deep in the opposite corner from your ball machine/ball feeder, then attempt to hit the target with 20 consecutive shots.
3.Spin - Pick a particular stroke and hit it every ball as you count to 20 for both consistency and control by hitting to or near a target at the opposite corner to the feed.
4.Power - 20 consecutive strokes with a little extra spin and stroke speed to your target.
Your strengths and weaknesses will be exposed by this method giving you the feed back you need to start working on perfecting your strokes. Monitor errors, initially with reference to consistency, then control, then spin and finally power.
I often see players attempt to practice these skills in reverse order, but spin, control and consistency are needed ahead of power. So temper your power until you have your strokes under control.
The results of this kind of practice can be seen on any tennis video of a top 10 ATP or WTA player.
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