Practice Drills For Perfect And Permanent Tennis Skills
Spend your time on court creating good habits. Repetition and practice create permanent habits, however your habits may not always be perfect. The drills suggested below are a guide for sound and 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.
Place your machine, or practice partner at a baseline corner of the court, have them initially feed as though a cross court rally is in progress. Keep the speed of the feeds consistent with what you normally use.
1.Consistency – Goal is a count of 20 consecutive stokes over the net 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 – Support your racket and make an effort to send the ball to your target with a little extra oompf for a count of 20 consecutive.
You will quickly recognise your strengths and weaknesses with this routine, and know what you need to work on to perfect your game. Act on the feed back from your errors as to consistency, control, spin and power.
For better tennis you must master the key disciplines of spin,control and consistency before attempting to play a power game. You will develop a consistent, controlled power game if you practice this way.
Watch a tennis video of any top 10 ATP or WTA player, you will see the results of this kind of practice being showcased.
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