Games and Drills for group lessons

[LittleMAC]

What are some drills and games for group lessons? The groups can be from 5-10 kids. I need to come up with a large variety of games and drills suited for all ages... Beginners that have hardly held a racquet to young teenagers that have good form. The basic idea for them is to have a lot of fun. Turning into chizzled tennis players who often compete is not their priority. Some of the beginners are 3-4 years old, intermediates can be up to 10, advanced can be up to 14 or so. I already have games like king of the court, alligator, jail, around the world, baseball... you know, the basics. I'm wondering if there are more games and even drills that kids will enjoy. Like I said the whole idea is to have a lot of fun and to hit a lot of balls. Throw any ideas out there, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks!

-MAC

 

[freelans]

This thread definitely has my interest.

Here's one from the Harvard women's tennis club.
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~tennis/drills.html

How do you play king of the court, alligator, Jail, around the world and baseball BTW?



**Capture the Net**
2 Teams of 2 people on opposite sides of the net. Ball hopper is placed at the net so both teams can reach it. Spin a racquet to see which team starts at the net. Team who wins goes up at net, team who loses starts at the baseline. The team at the net feeds the ball to the team at the baseline. The ball cannot be fed to the same person at the baseline 2 times in a row and the inital feed must pass the service line. Once the ball is in play, the two teams play out the point normally, with one team at the net and one at the baseline. If the net team wins, they receive a point. If the baseline team wins, they get to run up to the net and feed the next point. When the net team loses a point, they have to run back to the baseline. Points can only be won at the net. The object of the team feeding is to catch the baseline team off guard, so play goes quickly.
Play to 11.

 

[freelans]

and another link here...
Lotsa stuff, please let me know which ones you think are good.

http://www.sportplan.net/drills/Ten...p;jsessionid=25C6A56313E095D12B4E7A844F27F2B8

 

[Kathy]

freelans,

Good links.

You also might find ones you can use at

www.**********.com

in the "Workshop" section, which is a collection of drills.

Kathy K
www.operationdoubles.com

 

[Kathy]

I guess this board doesn't like that URL to drills I tried to post above. Now that I think on it, I guess that site could be considered a competitor. Oops.

Kathy K
www.operationdoubles.com

 

[looseswing]

For the advanced players there is a fun drill called olympics. It is all doubles. A team is at the net and on the other side the teams rotate out. The instructor feeds randomly to the baseline team and then the two teams play it out. If the baseline team hits a winner or wins three in a row it is goes to the other side. As soon as the baseline team wins the instructor puts a high lob up just in front of the service line and the next baseline team can put this away off the bounce. If they do then they run over and if they don't hit a winner but win the point play resumes as normal and if they miss then they rotate out. First team to sixteen winners wins.

A singles drill is good where you have two people on one side and the rest on the other. The two people rotate after each point unless if their opponents misses a feed. Basically the students start at a doubles side line and the one of the two champions starts at the middle of the baseline. You feed to the opposite side of the other kids and they run over and hit it and play the point out against the champions. If they win that point then they run to the baseline touch it and then run and hit a volley. If they win that they are over.