Spend your time on court creating good habits. Repetition and practice create permanent habits, however your habits may not always be perfect. The drills suggested below are a guide for sound and systematic practice of your ground strokes using a hitting partner or ball machine to feed you balls.

Practice a specific ground stroke following the four successive levels – consistency, control, spin and power/speed.

Tennis is a game of error management, winners simply make less errors than losers. Treat your errors as critical feed back rather than condemnation and your systematic practice with these drills will reduce them dramatically.

From the baseline corner of the court have your machine, or practice partner feed as though a cross court rally is in progress. Try to keep the speed of the feeding at your normal level of play.

1.Consistency – 20 strokes in a row, over the net, relatively deep and in court.

2.Control – set a target with some type of marker deep in the opposite corner from your ball feeder, then attempt to hit the target with 20 successive shots.

3.Spin – Choose to hit topspin, then hit 20 consecutive shots without mistake to your target, being sure of a good net clearance with every stroke.

4.Power – Support your racket and make an effort to send the ball to your target with a little extra oompf for a count of 20 consecutive.

Your strengths and weaknesses will be exposed by this method giving you the feed back you need to start working on perfecting your strokes. Monitor errors, initially with reference to consistency, then control, then spin and finally power.

For better tennis you must master the key disciplines of spin,control and consistency before attempting to play a power game. You will develop a consistent, controlled power game if you practice this way.

You can view the results of this kind of practice being showcased on tennis video’s of any top 10 ATP or WTA player.

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