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I used this lesson plan during a recent Red Ball clinic and it worked like a charm. Hope you have the same success. It's never too soo...

After scouring over 400 posts on this blog I cannot for the life of me find one on trapping the ball against the back fence to improve servi...

PTR certified teaching professional Marcin Bieniek has some great tips on serve instruction in the November/December 2014 issue of TennisPr...

Here's a great serve and overhead exercise from Steve Smith at Tennissmith.

Here's a serve lesson plan great for larger groups. Warm-up Form two teams. Station each time at the service line. Players take turn ...

I can't believe I haven't posted this activity before, but I can't find it anywhere. I use it frequently with many variations. Y...

I cooked up this drill idea the other day while running a serve caterpillar. I often have players returning serve during serve drills to red...

Here's another great drill idea from Cosmin Milhoca at WebTennisDrills.com . It is similar to the Keep It Deep serve drill, but adapted...

I cooked up this drill myself as a way to work on return of serve. Borrowing a little from a drill I saw that Jim Courier used to use. Bet h...

Thank You, Jeeves is a serve warm-up. You will need at least four players. Pair players into teams of two. Place four balls on the ground ...

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 ...

In a 2011 article for  TennisPro  magazine, USPTA and PTR Master Professional Ken DeHart breaks down the basics of returning serve. He divid...

Float that serve out wide like a butterfly, then sting like a bee with your second shot Recently I was reading Cosmin Miholca's blo...

I have done this drill before as an adult student in a clinic. Its purpose is similar to 7/11 in that we want to work on serve and return o...

Ian Westermann and his cool tweener shirt Thanks Web Tennis Drills for recently recycling a 2007 video of Ana Ivanovic giving some si...

If you are a USTA member and you receive their 15-30 digital magazine, you may have seen this game in their most recent issue . In the video...

Continuing our incarceration theme with Serve Time, a great dual purpose game. No more boring serve practice. No more lost opportunities t...

Here's a simple activity to warm up the shoulder. Perfect intro to a serving lesson. Divide players into two teams, one on each baseli...

Azarenka demonstrates either the 'out' signal or reminding us she's been  #1 I concocted this game to help my youngest st...

If your students are struggling with the mechanics of the serve, take a break from all that technical talk and play this fun game instead. ...