tennis

Welcome to the tennis section of Yoursportplanner. As an enthusiastic coach and passionate tennis trainer, you will find here the ultimate resource for training exercises, tactical insights and tools to create effective workouts. Whether you work with youth or adults, beginners or experienced players, Yoursportplanner provides you with all the information and tools you need to achieve your goals in the sport you love so much. Proper training, practice, dedication and fun are the key to success. Right now we offer 70 tennis drills and 3 tennis workouts created by tennis coaches. Don't hesitate and proceed quickly to put together your tennis workouts and improve your players' performance.

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Tap & bounce hand-eye coordination
Place hoops at the back line.
Each player own racket and ball.
The player holds the racket horizontally in front of them with the elbow bent and taps the ball up a bit.
Then let the ball bounce along the racket on the ground in the hoop and in the bounce pick up the ball again to tap it back up a bit.
Do this 10 times.

Then they will do the same exercise walking to the net.
Turn around and return to the hoop.
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Bulls eye
Put a ball carrier/cart in the middle of a half court.
Each player tries to hit the balls into the ball cart with a backhand.
Bulls eye if successful.
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Chair Dance
The children spread out across the tennis court.
When the trainer says start the children begin walking/running/etc. through the court.
When the trainer says a "stop" word, the children look for a hat as quickly as possible.
While the children are running around, the trainer can also call another variation of movement such as hopping, stepping sideways, etc.
At each round, remove a hat so that someone goes off.
The one who is off does 5 jumping jacks and then join in again.
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Backhand exercise
A backhand is indicated.
Player takes turns playing in one zone and then another.
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Singles in place
Have the players pass to each other where they stand.
After a number of times, change where they are standing.
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Warming up
Put the players in a row next to each other.
About 1 meter in front of them on the ground is a tennis ball.

Have them put their feet slightly apart.
Quickly run -dribble- in place.
At the trainer's instruction they do while dribbling:
Hands on knees.
Hands on toes.
Hands on shoulders.
Hands forward.
Hands in the air.
When the trainer calls Ball!, they grab the ball as fast as they can.

Repeat and throw the commands interchangeably for variety.
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Forehand-backhand
There are 4 balls randomly indicated on each side of the court is a pot.
If a Forehand is played then the Forehand pot must be tapped.
If a Backhand is played then the Backhand pot must be tapped.
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Warming up
Setup:
In pairs, place the players in a row facing the wall.
Per pair 1 tennis ball.
Exercise:
Player 1 stands closest to the wall and begins the exercise by throwing the ball against the wall.
Player 2 catches the ball.
Player 1 meanwhile runs back through the right side and then catches the ball that player 2 just threw against the wall.
Repeat at least 20 times.
Make the exercise more difficult by having the ball caught in a hat.
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Junior warm up
Preparation:
Half Field.
Place hats on the back line with a tennis ball on top.
Place equal number of hats at the net.
Exercise:
Have the players run with the tennis ball to the overlying hat.
Have them put the ball down on the hat there for 2 seconds.
Pick it up again and run back to the starting hat.
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Conditioning sprinting around pawns

Sprint around the pawns, always via the middle pawn.

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