Modern Teaching Strategies For Junior Tennis Players

Abstract

Tennis specialists try to find out simple strategies to improve technical and tactical aspects and to involve more often and earlier the match aspects. Because tennis coaches want to prepare young juniors for competitions as early as possible, they try to skip over the analytical aspects. In the latest tennis methodology, we can find strategies such as teaching global service, teaching basic hits while running or integrated sessions. They want to put players in close touch with all kind of variables involved in tennis matches. The research is based on junior training sessions and we want to underline the positive aspect of global training for the future development of a tennis player. This kind of training is opposite to analytical training, where players are more static and do only parts of the movements or phases. Tennis players are more focused on what happens after the hit and try to be more intuitive on the opponent’s actions. Because tennis players turn pro very early, we seek to get them used to all kinds of challenging aspects during the match and after. The main issues of global training are the opponent’s hitting possibilities, the angles of service and return, and the results of the ball effect. That is why all these global training sessions are with an active player as an opponent and only actions as game situations. This might be the future of junior tennis players for improving the skills needed in competitions.