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Analysing ATP Tennis Players' One-Handed Backhands!

Analysing ATP Tennis Players' Two-Handed Backhands

Analysing ATP Tennis Players' Serves!

Analysing ATP Tennis Players' Forehand

How to Hit the Backhand with Andre Agassi

1 HOUR of TENNIS TRAINING with Boris Becker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJIdEZoi_2s

Tennis Coach Tips: Track it to the Racquet

Improve your focus with this quick volley tip from USPTA Elite Professional, Brett Hobden.

Tennis Coach Tips: Improve your High Volley

Keep moving when you volley. Brett Hobden shows you how to flawlessly execute this shot.

Tennis Coach Tips: Perfect Backhand Volley

There's no better feeling than striking a crisp, clean volley, but you'll need a consistent contact point in order to create the solid feel you're looking for. Tackle the perfect backhand volley contact point with this quick tip from USPTA Elite Professional Mark Bey

Tennis Coach Tips: Learn to Volley

Like to know how to volley like a pro? Take a look at Alicia Molik's latest handy MLC Tennis Hot Shots tip to find out how to master net play.

Tennis Coach Tips: Three Drills to Improve Tennis Groundstroke Power and Accuracy

Coach Christopher with Scott Del Mastro

To succeed on the court, you need consistent, powerful groundstrokes. It may be tempting to hit the ball as hard as possible to mimic your favorite professional player, but before attempting high-risk shots, you first need to develop sound technique.

Scott Del Mastro, director of fitness at Club Med Academies in Sandpiper Bay, Fla., provides three tennis groundstroke drills that will improve your footwork, racquet speed and technique to improve accuracy and power. Perform these drills two to three times per week during your tennis practice to start hitting powerful winners past your opponent.

Hand Toss Drill

Perform this drill to develop your footwork and improve your groundstroke consistency and accuracy. Having quick feet will help you get into position so you can hit the ball in your target zone each time, reducing the chance of a dreaded unforced error.

Swinging Volleys

Use this drill to increase your groundstroke power. Swinging forcefully at the ball without a bounce requires a great deal of racquet speed, which will improve your ability to whip the head of the racquet through the ball.

Put-Away Forehands

One of the most frustrating things in tennis is to miss an easy put-away shot. Perform this drill to reinforce your grounstroke technique when near the net. This will help you consistently hit accurate, powerful shots that will end a hard-fought point.

As a bonus, perform this drill to improve accuracy and spin on your kick

Tennis Coach Tips : Swinging Volley

Learn how to perform Tennis Swinging Volleys to improve your put-away shots close to the net with instruction from Scott Del Mastro of Club Med Academies.

Learn Tennis - The Volley Expert

Pete Sampras

Pat Rafter

Pat Rafter is known as a Serve and Volley player all time great. Watch the Serve and Volley Battle below.

To hit a good volley, you must use a continental grip and spread your index fingers for more control.

Learn Tennis - The volley footwork

Carioca Footwork Tennis Volley Lesson

Learn Tennis - Low Volley

Split-Step is important to hit a good volley. If you master this technique, you can have a new weapon - SERVE and VOLLEY.

Learn Tennis - How to hit volley with more feel

Volley is an important technique when playing doubles games. When an approach shot is executed, you will be ready to block the next ball with a slight touch volley technique.

Improve your volley with Kim Clijsters

Kim Clijsters born in 1983 is a former World number 1 player. Watch how she split-step and contact the ball in front of her body.

Instructional Tennis: Serve and Volley

Serve and Volley Instruction Video by Hank Pfister.

Hank Pfister is a former tennis player from the United States, who won two singles titles in 1981 and 1982 ) during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on May 2, 1983, when he became World No. 19.

Being tall of stature, sturdy of build and possessing a very fast serve, his style was highlighted by use of the serve and volley game.

Improve your Volley - Swinging Volley

How To Hit The Swinging Volley

When executing swinging volley, you should contact the ball at least at wasit height with your forehand grip. With the swing volley, a player can put himself in an offensive position.

The swinging volley is an extremely aggressive shot. To help keep that aggressiveness from translating into wildness, most players use topspin. The position of Maria's racquet so far below the ball here indicates that she'll be brushing up the back of the ball heavily.

Maria Sharapova execute Swing Volley inside Service line

AO 2012 Sharapova and Azarenka Forehand Swing Volley Winner

The aggressive swing volley

Improve your Volley - with Roger Federer & Andy Murray

Roger Federer

Andy Murray

Improve your Volley - Poaching

Poaching is an aggressive strategy in doubles where the tennis player at net attempts to volley a shot hit to their partner on the baseline

There are four critical elements to poaching: positioning, stance, timing, and direction. Let’s take a look at each of them.

Positioning-most players stand too close to both the net and the alley to poach successfully. For best results, stand right in the middle of the service box. In this position you are right in front of the returner, who will immediately consider you more of a threat. You are also in position to intercept any return not hit perfectly cross court.
Stance-lower your center of gravity by widening your feet and bending your knees. In this stance you will be more balanced and able to push off to go in direction, right or left.
Timing-take off for your poach either just before or right as the returner is hitting the ball. This way you are making your move when the returner is concentrating on hitting the ball so they won’t notice you (or even better, notice you and make an error on the return).
Direction-always move diagonally toward the net. Players often just move sideways(usually because they are already too close to the net). By moving forward as well, your momentum helps you punch the volley, helping to resist the urge to take the racket back for power.

There are several times when poaching is very advantageous:

(1) The returner is hitting weak returns crosscourt.
(2) Every return is being hit crosscourt with few attempts to pass down the line.
(3) The server is missing a lot of first volleys, or is having trouble getting to net.
(4) To pressure the returner to hit a ball down the line if this is not their strength.

The mechanics of poaching are very simple. The poacher cuts in front of the server to hit a the return that is coming back crosscourt. The intention of poaching is to put the ball away. In essence, the poacher is cutting off the crosscourt return before it has time to get back to the server.

Poaching is very useful if the returner is hitting every return crosscourt. By poaching you force the returner to at least think about returning down the line, which they may be uncomfortable doing. This can lead to more errors off the return. It also takes some of the pressure off your partner's (ie: the server) first volley.

This video demonstrates a poach. Notice how the net player on the server's side cuts across the court and knocks off a weak return.

Tennis Poaching

The Poach Tennis Drills

Jamie Murry and Max Mirmyi give Poaching tips

How to Poach in Doubles

Improve your Volley - Tennis Drills

Volley is one of the fundamental shots in tennis. The recommended grip is Continental grip. This grip is a must to master as it can be also be used for Forehand/Backhand Slice, Drop Shot, Serve.

Grip Analysis

Volley Confidence Tennis Drills

Moving Volley Tennis Drills

Nick Bollettierie with his student.

Bryan Brother Amazing Volley Drills

Tribute to Bryan Brothers - World No 1 Doubles

Chok Tennis Grip

Important Roles of Non-Dominant Hand in Volley

Boris Becker: How to Volley

The non-dominant hand used in volley is to balance your body that resulted in better coordination before hitting the ball.

3 elements of a good volley
1) Bend your Knees and keep racquet head up
2) short backswing
3) contact out infront of the body
Note : Split step is important for Volley as it prepare you to react to oncoming balls.

Bob and Mike Bryan (World No 1 doubles demonstrate their famous RDC (Romanian Davis Cup) drill.

Maximize Your Volley Ready Position

Simple Guide to Fantastic Volley Footwork

Tricks for Great Volley Contact

Forehand Volley Techniques and Tactics

Forehand Volley Tip #1

The most common reason why many tennis players hit a long forehand (outside balls) volley shots is because they tend to pivot their elbow or wrist when they hit the ball. If you do this, you have to execute the shot accurately to avoid error. Remember to keep your elbow and wrist firm when you execute your forehand volleys. You also have to punch out from your shoulder when you hit the ball.

Forehand Volley Tip #2

It is ideal to hit the forehand volleys when the ball is at net level or higher. To do this, you have to move forward to meet the ball.

Forehand Volley Tip #3

For better results, you have to keep your racket head above your wrist when you hit the ball.

Forehand Volley Tip #4

Always remember that in a backspin forehand volley, the ball floats farther than in a flat volley. Thus, you have to hit your ball lower and apply lesser power.

Forehand Volley Tip #5

To hit a proper forehand volley, the magnitude of the downward angle in your racket swing must be of equal proportion to the magnitude of the upward angle of your racket swing.

Forehand Volley Tip #6

Always move forward and meet the ball in front of you when you make contact. Avoid hitting the ball back or else it can cause a lot of errors.

Forehand Volley Tip #7

When you are moving forward to hit the ball (as mentioned above at contact), you have to make sure to that you keep moving when you are about to make contact with the ball.

Forehand Volley Tip #8

If you are about to hit a return from your opponent’s heavy topspin shot, you have to remember that the ball has the tendency to jump off from your racket face. Thus, you need to compensate this by hitting the ball a bit lower.

Forehand Volley Tip #9

If you are going to hit a forehand volley below the net, remember that it is ideal to hit hard and deep than on a high ball. Add backspin in your shot and for best results, hit a drop shot or angle forehand volley shot.

Forehand Volley Tip #10

To hit a backspin forehand volley, you have to tilt your racket face upward or do the downward chop.

Tennis Lesson in East Coast, Marine Parade (Villa Marina, Mandarin Garden, Casafina, Laguna)