Tennis drills
- Four balls are indicated at random.
- There is a pot on each side of the court.
- If a Forehand is played, the Forehand pot must be tapped.
- If a Backhand is played, the Backhand pot must be tapped.
Put the players in a row next to each other.
About 1 meter in front of them on the ground is a tennis ball.
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.
- Have the players line up on the baseline.
- Between the sidelines are 7 pawns.
- Have the players shuffle around the pawns one at a time. Important that they keep their faces toward the net.
- So they shuffle sideways forwards and backwards.
- Arriving at the net, they jog along the sideline back to the baseline and rejoin the group.
- Have the players line up behind the baseline.
- Have the players do side shuffles one at a time, between the sidelines, toward the net.
- Arriving at the net, they jog past the net, between the side lines on the other side and back along the baseline to rejoin the line.
- Repeat the exercise a few times.
The children themselves play the ball up underhand or overhand and try to rally straight through the amount indicated on the game cards.
- A 4 is four passes
- A picture (jack, queen and king) counts for 5
- An ace is for 2
- A joker is a lucky card, they just have to play on that, as it counts for 1. It must be in, of course.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- A backhand is indicated.
- Player takes turns playing in one zone and then another.
- Have the players pass to each other where they stand.
- After a number of times, change where they are standing.
Put the players in a row next to each other.
About 1 meter in front of them on the ground is a tennis ball.
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.
- 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.
