Dominate The Net - Improve Your Tennis Volleys With These 6 Drills

ollies six volley drills you can do with your partner or a partner i know that a lot of people go out and they just kind of play but these are six drills that i used to do all the time always in progressions from simpler to more complex from slower to faster and they're just there to really work on the basics of your volleys so that's what we're doing today it is volley time my name is mike babel former top 30 wta pro 19 times grand slam competitor and volleying was definitely one of the things i enjoyed most so the first drill is very simple we're going four-hand cross-court volleys to just forehand volley to forehand volley and we're working on the basics and we're starting a little further in and then once we have a couple of rallies that went okay meaning over 10 balls we move back so we always go from a little easier to a little more complex until we're all the way back on the service line all right so let's see how it goes with faizal my partner here who's so kind to help me out today all right here we go so are you moving your feet over there so we just keep it on the forehand side always coming back to ready position and we got our feet moving there we go all right i think we can slide back a little bit so now we have to lift the volley maybe a little bit more but we're still split stepping nice and now we're going service line to service line and if you're doing this right it's a workout all right and again we're just keeping it forehand to forehand sorry it's all right and we're losing control are we losing control never all right back inside it's the same progression we're going really slow this is not about pace and the key is really that you're really really working on those little itty bitty gritty details because if you have internalized those then you can pick up the pace so you're really seeing we're trying to do all of this with one ball i don't know why i have three more in my hand we're gonna make it with one ball sorry keep those feet moving now yep really want to try to keep that fist in front of my body so that i can react really quickly all right let's slide back a little bit sorry a little short and then of course we're going all the way back to the service line sorry ah back in the day i had that all right our next drill is just volley to volley one-on-one but it's going to be random so it's not just foreign or just backhands but what i want you to do is choke up on your racket and that really allows me to work on keeping the racket face above my wrist because i don't have the entire weight of the racket weighing me down this is especially a great drill for kids when they first learn how to volley i still do want the left hand your offhand on the throat of the racket because the left hand does have a very important role and again we're just feeling and we're trying to sort our feet out so again this goes for numbers we're starting fairly far up and then we work our way back and also the hand down on the racket so nice and easy good and come back in ready position left hand always on the bracket there we go oh we're doing the figure eight gotta interrupt that all right and then we can move one step back and slide down on the grip a little bit until we're all the way all the way back at the baseline and of course you don't have to do that continuously right if you work in increments of 10 you can stop the ball and then move back all right so now that we're at the service line we're going all the way down to our proper grip so this is just friendly volley to volley make sure that you have the tip of the racket facing to the side there we go low base on every volley you come back to your ready position so same drill from the front choking up first keeping the wrist below the racket face and keeping the wrist out in front okay let's dance that's almost what it feels like can't dance anywhere else but i think on the court i do have some rhythm all right let's move back a little bit and we also move down on the grip a little bit oh i got lucky on that one all right and then you're moving back to the service line and again we're in our full grip and go good and of course once you have these numbers of repetition you can also pick up the pace but always go from slower and a little simpler to more complex and then a little faster so you get those repetitions made famous the seesaw or yoyo whichever one you want to call it what you're going to do is we have the benefit of the junior lines on this chord i'll start on the duece chord faisal starts on the duece chord there and again friendly we're balling together as i'm moving to my left on this side faisal moves to the left on his side and once we reach the junior lines on the other side we're going to do it the other way around all right let's see if we can do it with one ball so just a couple of steps to the trying to control the ball here okay i got my junior line let's make our way back okay let's see if we can do it across one more time nice and way back and again of course if you're making it once or twice through you could pick up the pace that was well done so the last two drills and these are for singles more so than for doubles and you notice that by my court positioning so if i'm coming in i'm following up an approach shot and i'm attacking faisal's deuce court i need to shade over slightly to the left of the middle line because i want to be on my bisector of an angle if i made that a doubles drill totally different animal i would slide more into my uh right hand service box here into my deuce court service box but as it is as a singles drill i want to be about here and this is another thing that i want to make you aware of a lot of people when they practice volleys are up here and to my mind that doesn't really serve its purpose because you rarely get into this position as your very first volley so i want to work in a position where i usually get my transition volleys and that is around the service line and then of course i made my way in and that's why i'm staggered over to the left a little bit so what we're doing is we're just going my volley to faisal's deuce court he can hit four hands and backhands and if i get a backhand volley on this side here i'll play that as well so we're not limited to either one of our sides right you'll also notice that i'm not moving in a whole lot i'm not consecutively moving and moving closer moving closer putting the ball away i want to force myself to play lower volleys because again that's most likely what i'm going to get as a transition volley yes of course i'm moving up on each individual volley but i'm not going to close up to net and again if you do this right it's a workout all right let's get serious all right there we go perfect that's what i want to work on i didn't get behind that ball ah that's good didn't move up to it i just let you pull me sideways all right and of course we're doing the same drill on the ad side or faisal is on the outside i'm on the deuce court again if i attack his backhand his outside in singles i want to slide over from the midline a little bit to my right to be on my bisector of an angle all right let's do it again i'm staying around the service line because i want to work on my transition volleys that is a very good ball here that's realistic for when you would play matches and i don't have that

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Length: 12min 13sec (733 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 13 2021