Drills, Games, and Practice Routines
Learn to use a variety of fun drills, games, and practice routines to improve your tennis.
Tennis Drills
The best tennis drills for beginners, intermediates, and advanced players, as individuals or in groups, providing fun, skill-specific practice on forehands, backhands, serves, volleys, overheads, quickness, footwork, power, depth, placement, and consistency.
The best tennis drills for beginners, intermediates, and advanced players, as individuals or in groups, providing fun, skill-specific practice on forehands, backhands, serves, volleys, overheads, quickness, footwork, power, depth, placement, and consistency.
The Best Serve and Return Drills for Advanced Players
Full explanations of how to run the two best advanced tennis drills for aiming and spinning serves and returning the full range of spin serves.
Full explanations of how to run the two best advanced tennis drills for aiming and spinning serves and returning the full range of spin serves.
The Three Best Contest Drills for Advanced Players
Full explanations of how to run the three best contest drills for advanced tennis players, including a drop volley contest, side pocket contest, and drop shot contest.
Full explanations of how to run the three best contest drills for advanced tennis players, including a drop volley contest, side pocket contest, and drop shot contest.
The Two Best Levels Drills for Beginners
Full explanations of how to run the two best beginner tennis drills in which the player works through increasingly difficult levels as she progresses.
Full explanations of how to run the two best beginner tennis drills in which the player works through increasingly difficult levels as she progresses.
The Two Best Consistency Drills for Beginners
Full explanations of how to run the two best beginner tennis drills that work on consistency of forehand and backhand volleys and groundstrokes.
Full explanations of how to run the two best beginner tennis drills that work on consistency of forehand and backhand volleys and groundstrokes.
The Two Best Aiming Drills for Beginners
Full explanations of how to run the two best beginner tennis drills that work on aiming volleys and forehand and backhand groundstrokes.
Full explanations of how to run the two best beginner tennis drills that work on aiming volleys and forehand and backhand groundstrokes.
The Three Best Net Drills for Intermediates
Full explanations of how to run the three best intermediate tennis drills for net play, including volley and overhead skills.
Full explanations of how to run the three best intermediate tennis drills for net play, including volley and overhead skills.
The Three Best Contest Drills for Intermediates
Full explanations of how to run the three best contest drills for intermediate in tennis, including a lob contest and two types of overhead smash contests.
Full explanations of how to run the three best contest drills for intermediate in tennis, including a lob contest and two types of overhead smash contests.
The Two Best Levels Tennis Drills for Intermediates
Full explanations of how to run the two best intermediate tennis drills in which the player works through increasingly difficult levels as she progresses.
Full explanations of how to run the two best intermediate tennis drills in which the player works through increasingly difficult levels as she progresses.
The Two Best Scored Tennis Drills for Intermediates
Full explanations of how to run the two best intermediate tennis drills that give the player a score through which she can track her improving performance.
Full explanations of how to run the two best intermediate tennis drills that give the player a score through which she can track her improving performance.
Animated Tour of Tennis Footwork Exercises
Animations illustrate a sequence of tennis footwork exercises you can use to warm up and as agility training.
Animations illustrate a sequence of tennis footwork exercises you can use to warm up and as agility training.
The Lob Game - A Great Tennis Game for Medium-Large Groups
A great game for 4-10 intermediate or better tennis players.
A great game for 4-10 intermediate or better tennis players.
Volley Drills and Games
How to improve your net play by practicing with a friend.
How to improve your net play by practicing with a friend.
Best Practice Games: "Five Person"
The most popular game for groups of three to five intermediate to advanced players.
The most popular game for groups of three to five intermediate to advanced players.
Best Practice Games: "Smash and Volley"
A great game for one intermediate to advanced player and two beginner to advanced players.
A great game for one intermediate to advanced player and two beginner to advanced players.
Group Games: Jail and Around the World
Two great tennis games for large groups of kids.
Two great tennis games for large groups of kids.
Playing Tennis Without a Court
Games and fun drills for when you can't get a court.
Games and fun drills for when you can't get a court.
A More Tennis-Like Platform Tennis
A variation on platform tennis that gives great practice for full tennis groundstrokes.
A variation on platform tennis that gives great practice for full tennis groundstrokes.
Platform Tennis
Platform tennis is the one racquet sport you can play outdoors year-round, even in snow country.
Platform tennis is the one racquet sport you can play outdoors year-round, even in snow country.
Winter Tennis Without a Court
How to keep playing tennis in winter with snow on the ground and no indoor courts nearby.
How to keep playing tennis in winter with snow on the ground and no indoor courts nearby.
Tennis Footwork Warmup - Footwork Drills
A sequence of footwork drills for use as a warmup and to improve court coverage in tennis.
A sequence of footwork drills for use as a warmup and to improve court coverage in tennis.