Tennis Drils

I have been looking around for different tennis drills and tennis tips on the web. Many tennis drills can be used with just a few players on up to as many as you like.

These 3 useful tennis drills came from the Harvard Tennis Club site.

Double Miss
"Works for 4-6 people. Split the players up into two teams. Teams make a line at the baseline (or behind it.) First player for each team steps up to the baseline and plays a singles point (with or without serving either works great.) Keep track of the score with each point. Each player stays "in" (ie keeps playing out points) until they LOSE 2 POINTS. then the next player on their team steps up and plays out points until THEY MISS TWICE. Play to 11 or 21."

Zone Ball
"2 Teams of 2 people on opposite sides of the court at the service line (Zone 2). Everyone plays at one time. Ball is fed (or put in play) to the "home team." The home team is either randomly picked or, if playing with other courts and having each team move up if they win and down if they lose, the home team is the team who had won their previous match. The point is played. The team who wins moves up to the net (Zone 1). The team who loses moves to the baseline (Zone 3). In order to win the game, a team must win 2 points in a row at Zone 1. The balls should be fed quickly with very little time in between points to run forward and back to the baseline. When a team is at Zone 1, they cannot let the first ball bounce. Once a team wins a game, they move up and if they lose, they move down a court to play the next team."

Capture the Net
"2 Teams of 2 people on opposite sides of the net. Ball hopper is placed at the net so both teams can reach it. Spin a racquet to see which team starts at the net. Team who wins goes up at net, team who loses starts at the baseline. The team at the net feeds the ball to the team at the baseline. The ball cannot be fed to the same person at the baseline 2 times in a row and the initial feed must pass the service line. Once the ball is in play, the two teams play out the point normally, with one team at the net and one at the baseline. If the net team wins, they receive a point. If the baseline team wins, they get to run up to the net and feed the next point. When the net team loses a point, they have to run back to the baseline. Points can only be won at the net. The object of the team feeding is to catch the baseline team off guard, so play goes quickly.
Play to 11." More from the Harvard Tennis Club site here

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~tennis/drills.html

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