Session 2 Tennis

In session 2 of tennis we started light jogging around the court several times before Nichola came out, after the warm up we each got a tennis racket and tennis ball and concentrated on keeping the ball up in the air, this made sure we used hand and eye co-ordination and gave each player a good feel of the ball and racket and footwork was very important for balance and this lasted for a duration of 5 minutes.
After the first part of the session we went onto a game called round the world, this game in detail was all 10 players were split into two groups of 5 and 5 players at either side of the court. The aim of the game was just to return the ball into the opposing court and if you missed one of your life’s would go and you had 3 lives before the game started to try and stay in all the way until someone else lost all their lives. To lose a life you would not hit it into the designated opponent’s area. This game made you use a lot of technique to handle the racket and hit it in the centre of the racket and you needed positioning for this and this is a very important technique in tennisafter this we focused on backhanded shots I believe this is a weaknesses for me compared to forearm so I consider it is important to work on my weaknesses so it is essential to work on backhand for myself. At start we each got a racket and a ball and kept the ball in the air but only using backhanded shots and this gave us 5 minutes to warm up our backhand. After this we did another “around the world” only using backhanded shots I found this more difficult as I am more familiar with forearm shots.
After this we went straight into a serving drill where we each had a partner and went on a court between the two and served shots to each other I found this pretty hard to achieve hitting it perfect into the box with power and accuracy overall I believe I improved in serving.