The sunday morning session starts with a warm-up and stretching period This is then followed by a short training or demonstration of a particular stroke or tactic. Then the remainder of the session is used for actual games usually in the form of doubles or half-court singles. As the Aylesbury College sports hall contains 4 courts, as well as actual games, we try set one court aside for individual coaching. There is an annual membership fee of 5.00 per member. Ideas for junior clubs.
Conditioned games Get a deck of cards and remove the picture ones to just leave the numbers.
Fan them out face down and let each singles player or doubles team pick a card without letting their opponent see it. This is really good where some players get down hearted when they start losing. You can refine this by choosing the card yourself where the matches are a bit one sided. Play a game of doubles where short serves and the outsides score more than one point. This is good for getting players to avoid just hitting it back anywhere.