Spend your time on court creating good habits. Repetition and practice create permanent habits, however your habits may not always be perfect. The drills suggested below are a guide for sound and systematic practice of your ground strokes using a hitting partner or ball machine to feed you balls.

Any of your ground stokes can be practised systematically by following the suggested directions in the order of consistency, control, spin and speed.

Tennis is a game of error management, winners simply make less errors than losers. Treat your errors as critical feed back rather than condemnation and your systematic practice with these drills will reduce them dramatically.

From the baseline corner of the court have your machine, or practice partner feed as though a cross court rally is in progress. Try to keep the speed of the feeding at your normal level of play.

1.Consistency – Set level at 20 consecutive strokes, in court over the net, relatively deep.

2.Control – Hit to a target in the opposite corner from your machine/ball feeder, aim for 20 shots in a row, on or near target.

3.Spin – Choose to hit topspin, then hit 20 consecutive shots without mistake to your target, being sure of a good net clearance with every stroke.

4.Power – Ramp it up a little, put some sting in your shots, but look to temper your power by hitting your target for 20 shots in a row.

After one session using this method you should have a pretty good idea on the areas of your game that need work. Act on the feed back from your errors as to consistency, control, spin and power.

I often see players attempt to practice these skills in reverse order, but spin, control and consistency are needed ahead of power. So temper your power until you have your strokes under control.

The results of this kind of practice can be seen on any tennis video of a top 10 ATP or WTA player.

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