So this week we had spent some time from the beginning of the practice working on the cross-court shot, which is the most common shot hit in tennis, and hitting on the run. We had let kids play points through cross-court rallies, and this was the first week where kids had played more than 10-15 minutes of points.
As we have told the kids in practice, the basic idea is to get everyone to be able to rally for a longer period of time, keeping the ball in play and not going for too many big shots and trying to hit winners extremely early in the rallies. In the coming weeks, we will continue working on the most basic stuff such as early preparation and trying to be balanced when we hit, while maintaining a rally for as long as possible. Cross-court rallying will be the focus of the practice, as well as finally playing more points with serves.
The grip changes, arm and racquet position on the serve, overheads and volleys, are starting to show improvement and all the coaches will continue to stay on the kids to make sure that everybody sticks with it.
Drago
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