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Many of my students come to me as beginners - 'never-evers'. As such, they all love volleys because the volley is one shot in tennis...

This drill is a modified ball machine drill, originally named 'Mr. & Mrs. Touch', from Inaki Balzola in the Sept/Oct 2014 issue ...

This simple but effective drill idea is from the 3rd Toad tennis blog . Its purpose is to get players comfortable with coming in to the net....

Lauren Stewart's third suggestion for 2.5 drills is this volley drill. In addition to consistency and backhand skills, she said beginner...

No, it's not Ebola, or acne. Breakout is my own mash-up of Jailbreak and Net Monster. All players begin on one baseline. Coach feeds b...

DTL (Down The Line) Champs is from Inaki Balzola, in the May/June 2014 issue of TennisPro Magazine. It is presented as a ball machine drill....

Net Gain is my name for Alejandro Ciffoni's series of net drills in the May/June 2014 issue of TennisPro Magazine. You will need at l...

Ultimate Volley Drill by Inaki Balzola appeared in the Jan/Feb 2013 issue of PTR's magazine. It was presented as a ball machine drill...

What is it with tennis drills and caterpillars? There are at least a couple more caterpillar-named activities in this blog if you have the t...

Mining Oliver Stephens' recent article in TennisPro Magazine for all it is worth! Here's a twist on a dead ball drill that Stephe...

Let's just say I had lots of options when Googling an image to go with this post This drill appeared in TennisPro magazine. It was s...

Double Trouble originally was a ball machine drill suggested in TennisPro Magazine by Inaki Balzola, PTR's International Director. It...

This is such a fun game from PTR Master Professional Daniel Breag. Simple and action-packed. Plus, I like the name. Four players at servic...

So apparently the 1973 Skylab mission has a tennis connection This is what I deserve for Googling 'snake tennis drill'. . . but ...

This was the only snake pic I could bear to include. Available here. The 11-17 PTR certification workshop I attended recently was lead b...

Thanks Coach William Vazquez for this drill which was originally posted here . Two player start as King or Queen or Champ or whatever you ...

This player is a lefty, so she is starting with the racquet in her non-dominant (right) hand Third in Ken DeHart's series of hand qu...

Number 2 volley improvement suggestion from Ken DeHart is the Superman drill. Same idea as Fast Gun, but instead of patting the leg with t...

Fast Gun is a drill to improve hand quickness from Ken DeHart. It appears in PTR's DVD Tennis Tips No doubt he is a beast at the net ...

This game was also at optimumtennis.net but was a little hard to decode so I hope I am explaining it right. If not, at least I understand ...