Starting Your Season: Tips from a State Champion Coach

Here are four ideas from Coach Kevin Record (coached two FL State Champion teams) on how he approaches a new season.  After coaching high school tennis for over 15 years this is what works well for him.  These ideas or parts of the ideas may also work well for you and your team! 1.  Setting [...]

Serve Tips and Handout

The serve is often a tough shot to learn with many high school players never able to reach a high level of competency. One stumbling block is often the grip – not being able to use the continental grip when serving.  One of your goals for the off-season for these players should be to serve [...]

Perfect Practice makes Perfect

Many coaches are familiar with Vince Lombardi’s phrase “perfect practice makes perfect” and it makes sense, a lot of sense especially with tennis. If your players do not know what they are doing, i.e. “just hitting balls” often they are just perfecting an error and are putting a ceiling on their improvement. The off-season is [...]

Tips from One of the Best

UNC’s women soccer coach, Anson Dorrance is one of the best.  His teams have won 72% of the NCAA National Championship games!  He has developed some core values for his players and you may be able to use some of these ideas with your team. So with these things in mind let’s look at where [...]

Indoor/Outdoor Practice

Here’s another fitness/conditioning drill you can use inside or out.  Use the search function on www.highschooltenniscoach.com  under Drills/Conditioning for more samples! Here are two variations for this drill. In the first situation have your players’ pair up and start in the push-up position with the hands of one player on the singles side line and [...]

Spring Tennis Weather (going inside)

Many schools have started tennis practice and often coaches have to deal with the weather.  Going inside to the gym or other indoor space can be a great option.  Here are some ideas to help run a productive and efficient practice inside. Have a plan.  Stations can be a great way to organize a large [...]

Target Adjustments in a Match (learning to self coach)

Target Adjustment in a Match (Self coaching)  By improving and being aware of shot placement your players will quickly improve their match strategies and be able to make adjustments.  As we all know players must often figure out what they need to do during match play to correct errors, coaches have little opportunity to coach [...]

Great Practice Drill!

Below is the description of a self run practice drill.  Do you have trouble remembering or finding all your drills?  Do you need new drills?  You will find over 500 drills on www.highschooltenniscoach.com!  You can quickly find specific drills with different attributes like large group, videos, and volley drills, doubles strategy, etc with the easy [...]

Challenge Matches – Try Player Overrule

Player overrule is gaining popularity especially with college tennis and challenge matches among team players.  Here’s how it works; The player overrule permits one’s opponent to overrule a line call.  By putting the twin rudders of trust and control in the hands of both players, we give players a new tool for navigating through what [...]

Coaching Handouts (Daily Sheet)

The Camp and Event Manager area on www.highschooltenniscoach.com  helps to organize your camps and events (an event can also be a day or week of practices, fundraising events, tournaments, etc, basically anything you need to schedule).  You also have the ability to create a Daily Sheet for each day of the camp, event or practice.  [...]