What's a good tip to keep the ball deep?
I often find myself setting the ball short. How can I improve on hitting the ball deep? Any tricks or input?
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Permalink Reply by Brian Tinio on -
Practice and training. Drill is simple set a cone target, do it over and over.
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Permalink Reply by Tennis Coach Abs on -
During a session with a ball machine , penalize yourself whenever you hit a ball in the service box by forcing yourself to run around the other ball and take it on your forehand...Very soon , you'll be so tired of running around balls , that'll you do whatever it takes to hit that ball deep.. ;-) Sounds pretty masochistic , but it works.. :)
Best of luck.
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Permalink Reply by Tim Prapong on -
Wow, Abs. That's pretty funny, but I'm sure it works. I'm going to use that one on my partner, Karl!
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Permalink Reply by Tim Prapong on
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I have a drill where I put three or four cones, a foot inside the baseline on both sides of the court. Then the two players have to rally and try to knock the cones off first.
I also set the 3-4 cones only for crosscort backhands or forehands, which is easier because the cones are closer together.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Dong on -
Tim, now this I like! I will give this drill a shot!
Tim Prapong said:
I have a drill where I put three or four cones, a foot inside the baseline on both sides of the court. Then the two players have to rally and try to knock the cones off first.
I also set the 3-4 cones only for crosscort backhands or forehands, which is easier because the cones are closer together.
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Permalink Reply by Decker on -
The cones are a great idea.... For my serve, I put tennis cans on the corners. I serve until they are all hit.
For the groundstrokes, I concentrate on bending my legs. It seems I get lazy at times and don't fully spring out of my shots...
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Permalink Reply by Tim Prapong on
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Yeah, it is alot like playing the board game "Battleship", only with tennis. haha!
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Permalink Reply by Harold Bessette on -
Just rip it.
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Permalink Reply by Kelvinator on -
yea i like this too...we just to do another dril that's easier...where you cone of a back area and we keep score to see who hits it in that area the most times...or whoever hit the last shot in that area gets the more points if they win the rally...etc...lots of variations!
kt
Mike Dong said:Tim, now this I like! I will give this drill a shot!
Tim Prapong said:
I have a drill where I put three or four cones, a foot inside the baseline on both sides of the court. Then the two players have to rally and try to knock the cones off first.
I also set the 3-4 cones only for crosscort backhands or forehands, which is easier because the cones are closer together.
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Permalink Reply by Tim Prapong on
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Yeah, this summer, I put four cones on the corner of the service box to practice my kick and topspin serves. It would take me the whole 70 ball basket to hit the cones five to six times. I had those cheap flat cones, so they ended up shattering.
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Permalink Reply by Tim Prapong on
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I bet you can, Harold, with that giant racket of yours. ;)
Harold Bessette said:
Just rip it.
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Permalink Reply by Kelvinator on
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each cone 5 to 6 times? that's like hitting a cone every 2 to 3 serves! That's impressive...too impressive...lol
kt
Tim Prapong said:Yeah, this summer, I put four cones on the corner of the service box to practice my kick and topspin serves. It would take me the whole 70 ball basket to hit the cones five to six times. I had those cheap flat cones, so they ended up shattering.
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