Cardio tennis drills drive the fitness aspect of the game of tennis.
They aim to help tennis players develop their stamina for those long endurance matches you see in the grandslams.
Tennis in general provides an incredible cardiovascular workout. However, beginner players often have a hard time finding teammates who can challenge and keep up with them for an hour or more. Let’s face it, these matches can become static quick and end up being boring if rallies do no last very long.
This is where a set of cardio tennis drills comes into play. The drills in this article are actually taught to tennis coaches and teachers. Some of the drills require just a ball and racquet, whereas others can call for foam or low compression balls, both which are easily available at sporting good stores. Foam and compression balls slow the game down a bit and ensure more control, boosting the chance of a prolonged drill.
In this Spanish Cardio Tennis Drill, players are able to practice different stances and different shots, in a fast-paced footwork orientated drill. The drill can accommodate for both beginner and advanced players at the coaches discretion in terms of how fast things go.
- The coach will feed a ball out to the first cone, where the player will play a pre-defined shot and stance. For a right hander this might be an open-stance backhand, a closed-stance backhand or a backhand that they should step into and drive down the line.
- They then go around the first cone, moving backwards while always keeping their body facing forward.
- They will then go out and play a pre-defined forehand (if right handed) that is along the same stance/shot as the first shot.
- They then go around the cone and back towards where they started to complete the circuit again.
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