Adults Extra

Our Rusty Rackets & Mixed Drills sessions run on weekly themes dedicated to specific match situations. The content of each theme is adapted to reflect the different levels through the two programmes. Each term, classes will be run with 4 blocks of 3 weeks* dedicated to the match situations and themes detailed below:

*some terms will not have 12 weeks so the content will be tweaked to reflect this in those terms.

Match Situations and Session Themes

Start – Serve and Return of Serve (Week 1/4/7/10)

Most points in tennis are won in the first four shots in the rally, making the start of the point (serve/return of serve) and the +1’s (first shot after your serve or return) the most important shots in tennis. Players will often use the first serve/return of second serve as an opportunity to attack and to try and stay neutral when hitting a second serve/return of first serve. 

Build – Rallying when both back  (Week 2/5/8/11)

Building is when players are in a neutral rallying situation and are tussling for the better position. The aim is to not give your opponent the chance to get on top of the point and to build an opportunity to attack with quality rallying and ball control challenging their movement, timing and strike zone. In doubles this could be in any of the common formations that we use, 1 up 1 back, 2 up 2 back and switch position.

Finish – Attack/Defend ( Week 3/6/9/12)

Players are looking to finish the point with this shot. They have often built the advantage in the point and have set up the finish. Players will mostly look to finish the point when closer to the net with an attacking groundstroke or volley/smash. Players on the other side of the court will be looking to defend against the Finish. This might be by managing to stay in the point, neutralizing, or even looking to turn the point around with a counter-attack. In doubles this could be in any of the common formations that we use, 1 up 1 back, 2 up 2 back and switch position.

The final three weeks of the term the players will have a chance to put the practice into match situations. Players/Coaches find out more information about their game when competing. It can often highlight areas that the players are strong at and areas where players need to work more on.

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