1. 1st4sport Level 3 Certificate in Coaching Tennis
Technical Overview

2. Technique
Technique is how a player uses their body and the racket to achieve a ball outcome
Good Technique will be:
Efficient – the body and racket being used in the most proficient way
Effective – the desired outcome being achieved with consistency
‘Good technique’ achieves the desired outcome, gives potential to improve outcomes in the future, is repeatable, does not fatigue or cause injury

3. Tennis Technique Efficiency Effectiveness Reception
Set up
Path, Angle, Speed of racket through contact
Ball Characteristics
HDDSS
Effect on opponent
Action
Suggestion(?) Reception – Set up – Action becomes Set Up (including reception skills 3R’s) and Action (hitting?)
Efficiency Effectiveness

4. Technical development
Technical development is a combination of developing both efficiency and effectiveness
Sometimes development is based on increasing effectiveness and the player develops efficiency to achieve the outcome
Sometimes development is based on increasing efficiency to give the player potential to be more effective in the future
A good coach understands the relationship between the 2 and is constantly switching between them

5. Technical development
Evaluation
Observation
Coach Knowledge of Technique
Development
Analysis
Improvement

6. Tennis Technique: Effectiveness
Reception
HDDSS
Set up
Path, Angle, Speed of racket through contact
Ball Characteristics
HDDSS
Effect on opponent
Action
Suggestion(?) Reception – Set up – Action becomes Set Up (including reception skills 3R’s) and Action (hitting?)
Efficiency Effectiveness

7. Effectiveness
Effectiveness can be described in terms of the following outcomes:
Result of the point
Effect the shot has on opponent
Effect the shot has on the player
The characteristics of the ball sent

8. Ball Characteristics
Height
Direction
Depth
Speed
Spin

9. Tennis Technique: Efficiency
Reception
HDDSS
Set up
Path, Angle, Speed of racket through contact
Ball Characteristics
HDDSS
Effect on opponent
Action
Suggestion(?) Reception – Set up – Action becomes Set Up (including reception skills 3R’s) and Action (hitting?)
Efficiency Effectiveness

10. Efficiency
What needs to change, develop or be added through contact point to achieve this?
Describe this using:
Path
Angle
Speed
Can the player find the solution to this now they understand?

11. Efficiency If the player hasn’t achieved their goal yet
How can they develop their:
Reception skills
Set up
Action
In order to help them achieve the desired improvement at contact and in ball effectiveness

12. Technical Analysis: Recap
When working with a player the coach needs to establish:
What is the current outcome – efficiency / effectiveness?
What is the intended or future outcome - efficiency / effectiveness?
The coach must get the player to feel/understand the gap between the above 2 statements.
Sometimes developing an understanding is enough to help the player make the improvement – let them try….
3. What interventions are required?

13. Coach Knowledge of Technique
Level 1:
Mini Tennis Progressions
Reception
Action
Level 2:
Mini Tennis Progressions
Ball outcome
PAS
Reception
Action
Level 3:
Mini Tennis Progressions
Ball outcome
PAS
Reception, Set up, Action