5 Tennis drills to improve your skills

#2 Practice forehand and backhand strokes

This is another basic drill which will help you to understand forehand and backhand strokes. Stand on the centre line for service and make your companion stand on the opposite service line. Let them launch balls at you at regular intervals and you may hit them with your forearm stroke. Slowly, you can increase speed and improve your forehand strokes.

Practice forehand and backhand strokes

Similarly, backhand can be practised by launching the balls on the opposite side of your playing arm. These balls can be launched at a height near your waist. In the next level, you can tell them to launch balls on either ends and making you run. This will help you improve your grip with the racquet. Later, balls can be tossed at shorter distances to make you move in all directions to hit the ball. Remember, this is not a rally, so has to be hit only by you and the other person just launches balls at you in different directions.

#3 Trying Alley rallies

Once you are confident in hitting balls from anywhere in both forehand and backhand you need advanced drills. Practising good rallies is the next goal for you. At first, you may begin by maintaining rallies with your companion. Start with 10 shots together and then try 20 balls at a time to make a rally. Practice rallies very frequently as it is vital for your tennis career. The alley rallies are advanced ones that will take a long time to achieve.

Trying Alley rallies

Never lose hope, anything is possible with practice. For alley rallies, you must strictly stay within the doubles alley lines of the court. You and the other player must try to achieve 10-20 balls within this limit. You are qualified to become a professional player if you reach this target. Making this happen in a narrow place might be difficult in the beginning. But this will greatly improve your concentration and allows you to move quickly to courts.