Side-to-Side Tennis Drills

Video Transcript

"Okay this is going to be the side to side training drill. You have some tennis balls over here and the goal is I'm going to slide over and pick one up and then deposit it in our basket over there. Now you don't have to do this on a tennis court, you can do this in a field, your backyard, move some furniture out of the way. The most common shot in tennis is someone hits a ball to you cross court and you slide over and you hit it. That's what this drill works on. So, you're just going to be like this. You're going to go side to side, grab the ball, move over back, drop it in the basket, side to side, like that. So, if you can do that, then you can also do it with a racquet and without a ball. So you just move over, pretend to hit it and then hit it and then recover. So, this is like in boxing when they do shadow boxing, you don't need to play anybody. If you do a drill like this, it will get you fitter, get you faster and it will groove the swing. So, do a drill like this, do it for about thirty seconds as hard as you can and then take a break and then do it for thirty seconds as hard as you can."