what are some exercises and drills i can do to help me get stronger in tennis?

Question

I am starting tennis and im pretty good but i want to be better my goal is to be the top singles player on my team and i need some help and ideas on how i can achieve doing this i hit practice hitting tennis balls on a wall in my garage does that help with anything ?

Answer 1

For Tennis, One of the muscles that you really need to make stronger so you can hit and play better is your forearm.
You Can Do a Few Things to make This Stronger
-First
You Can just get a tennis racket and do "ups" and downs"
hitting the ball on your racket. Also try different grips, ie serving grips because that'll make it better too along with your serve.
-Second
You Can Get one of those Hand Scrunch things. I forgot the name but its the thing that looking something like /\ and you scweeze.
Third-
By throwing baseballs, there heavier and this will make tennis easier
Fourth-
Also you should be able to be quick so springs would be good, even long distance to help your stanima

Good Luck-
Tennis Player

Answer 2

1.Hit it at will drill: Set up a bunch of hula hoops or other objects on a secluded tennis court grab a bag of balls and see how you do at hitting the balls into a specific ring. The benefits of being able to hit the ball where ever you choose are oblivious.
Cheaper solution to drill 1. Use cans instead of hula hoops.

Above is just one example of a drill you might try, everyone would benefit from different drills differently, when designing drills you have to know and or ask yourselves the following things.



1. What are my limitations?
2. What are my weaknesses?
3. What are my strengths?
4. How will this drill improve these?
5. What exactly do you do in tennis? (After you determine this you can design a drill that imitates these things.)

Answer 3

I played tennis in High School, and my coach would have us practice tennis shuffling on the courts. It was somewhat dorky, but it really helped keep me on my feet during the games, which is a good plus! I really think that sprinting, and running will help alot. That will keep you from getting too tired during a long play, and keep your endurance up! Also, workout your arm muscles! the stronger, most likely the more intensity the stroke has. Good luck on your tennis and your goals :)
...and hitting tennis balls on the garage will help, ONLY if you keep your right stroke. I have found myself practicing against a wall before a game, and I hit the ball really high, or low without realizing that the net is at a certain point and there are lines! a good way would be to maybe take a string or type of way to mark how high a real tennis net is, that way you practice the right stroke, otherwise it makes you become prone and used the the wrong stroke!

Answer 4

Any kind of hand- eye coordination will help you. Just getting comfortable hitting the ball with your raquet will help. Up in the air, at the ground, over a net and yes even into a garage will help tremendously! Also start lifting weghts so your arms have muscle to play for a long time, and just being in good shape will help with tennis and in life! Good luck!

-another fellow tennis player

Answer 5

this is what I do when i play tennis with my friends outside:I hold the tennis rocket and try to keep the tennis ball bouncing on the rocket for at least 50 sec.,I practice swinging my tennis racket,and then I hit the ball on a wall or something thats kinda like a wall and u know start hitting the ball on the wall again and again

Answer 6

Another thing that I think will help you in tennis is to play some tennis video games. I remember playing Super Tennis for Super Nintendo when I started to play tennis and for some reason I think that it really helped me because you get to see the effects or drop shots, and top spins.

Another big thing that will help is to watch peoples eyes before they hit the ball. They can't help but look to the place where they intend the ball to go.

The last thing to concentrate on when playing is just to simply get the ball over the net and let your opponant mess up on their own. It will happen most likely if you are playing with other beginners.

Answer 7

I would agree with stregnthening your forarms as the biggest excercise you could to to improve your game. I did. One of the best way to stregthen forearm muscles is to take a rounded rod shapped piece of wood, drill a whole though the middle. Take a piece of rope and tie a knot in it and place it though the hole; on the other end of a string attach a 5 lb weight. Hold the rod steadily out in front of you and slowly roll the weight up and down. This will increase your stregnth and stamina and more important add speed to every hit. You serve will be faster, you back hand stronger. Ofcourse you will have to pactice even more to have ball placement and control as your stregnth increases.

Answer 8

hitting against a wall is just exercise, the problem with it is that the angles are all wrong and the spin it returns isn't right.

playing table tennis will improve your reaction speed, as will squash, although the strokes are different.

learning to juggle, balls and clubs will improve balance and posture, and the quiet mind

play singles against male opponents as often as possible, even those with less tennis skill are possibly stronger than you.

when two players with equal skill meet, the one with more stamina will win the final set. cycling is good for stamina and leg strength

Answer 9

Lets suppose you just started and want to go for the Olympic possibility:

"For every level you want to advanced, you have to learn something new".

This could be of many areas.
Buy a good tennis book/DVD on your question.

This could be
Body:
- coordination
- stamina
Mental:
-tactics (to be aware of the weakness in the opponent, and your self, and a plan to act on it)
-motivation

Thus "a solution" to "some game situation problem".

PLAN
1-You need a coach to:
a- point out the problem
b- tell you about possible solutions.
c- suggest a training plan

2-After knowing this goal, you need to play that solution over and over again. For this you need a source to feed your that problem over and over again.

PRACTICE
Depending on your talent this might take trying 100 times or 10.000 times for your body to have 'learned' that solution. Thus only then it can produce that "game response" (like responding to a soft slice ball on your backhand, with a fast ball to the opponents forehand with side spin) AND with high success accuracy (like 80% of the time).

CONCLUSION:
So if you are of limited talent, you might want to BUY TIME by INVESTING IN A ROBOT and/or TAKING A PROFESSIONAL COACH, for you need 1000 balls to hit each week, to see winning results next month. Else don't expect significant progress before next season.

Training in a professional environment will take a top talented kid lets say only 3 years to play national level, else the same person might never get there in his lifetime.

Sorry to say it all again comes down to money.

Answer 10

Not only must you hone your eye-hand cordination, but you must also strengthen endurance, correct? Jog whenever you can to build your strength. By definition, endurance refers to "over a length of time," and exercise is cumulative, meaning that three 15-minute walks throughout the course of a day will give you the same effect as one 45-minute walk. This is a good thing! To be stronger , and FASTER, and maintaining energy throughout the game, you will be a stronger tennis player.