1. Level 3 1st4sport Certificate in Coaching Tennis
Tactical Development

2. Tactics
The tactical performance factor is made up of lots of tennis terminology: Consistency, Strengths, Positioning, Strokes, Patterns, Intentions, Decision-making etc. Tactics are how you use these to win a match: Tactical training and goal setting is how a player develops their strategy and tactics for future matches

3. Strategy and Tactics Level 3 Coaches need to be able to:
Describe where a player is tactically in terms of what they are achieving in each game situation
Gather information on player within lessons using basic measurement methods
Identify goals for a player
Demonstrate an ability to work on those goals in game situation, tactic, pattern, stroke intention and skill

4. Describing a player’s tactical skills
Performer
Tactics are always based around the person (performer)
Tactics
Talk about your player by talking about how their game links together in this way in each game situation
Patterns
Intentions
Skills

5. Tactics All tactics in tennis are based around 5 core areas:
Consistency
Space
Time
Strengths
Weaknesses
Some of the most commonly used tactics are described with well known tennis phrases.
Eg. To exploit space and take away time using a powerful 1st serve followed by attacking fh into either corner
… ‘serve and forehand attack’

6. What patterns could be used to implement these tactics?
An example of this
Overall tactic To use strong net game as much as possible. Need to find ways to get forwards early in the rally
Tactics (in each game situation)
Serving:
Serve and volley regularly
Mix serve and volley with serve – fh attack – then volley
Returning:
Hit and sneak into weaker gstroke particularly on 2nd serve key points
Both Back:
In neutral situations use centre approach to take control of rally
What patterns could be used to implement these tactics?

7. Stroke Intentions
As a player prepares to hit a shot – they have an ‘intention’ as to what they are trying to achieve.
A player will choose to hit a shot using one of the following intentions:
Trade
Build
Finish
Neutralise
Stay
Turn around

8. Tactical Development The player I am The gap The player I want to be
5 game situations
Consistency, space, time, strengths, weaknesses
5 game situations
Consistency, space, time, strengths, weaknesses
Performer
Performer