Beginner training plan
Your first lessonStart by understanding the player’s athletic background, goals, and comfort level with racquet sports. Introduce the basic rules, scoring, court positioning, and proper grip. Focus on building confidence through simple fundamentals including ready position, forehand and backhand contact, serve, and return. End the lesson with controlled rallying and easy point play so the player leaves feeling successful and excited to continue.
Lesson 2-3Reinforce the fundamentals from lesson one while improving consistency and movement. Introduce third shot drops, fourth shot positioning, and the importance of patience in point construction. Begin teaching kitchen line awareness, split stepping, and how to move safely and efficiently with a partner. Players should begin understanding when to drive versus when to slow the game down.
Lesson 4-10Focus on transition zone development and becoming comfortable moving from the baseline to the kitchen line. Introduce dinking fundamentals including crosscourt dinks, resets, directional control, and maintaining balance during hands battles. Players will work on building consistency under pressure, recognizing attackable balls, improving communication in doubles, and developing smarter court positioning and strategy through live play situations.
Lesson 11+Advance into higher-level strategy and offensive techniques tailored to the player’s style and goals. Topics may include aggressive net play, speed-ups, counters, flicks, deception, double backhand techniques, advanced serving patterns, stacking concepts, targeting strategies, and defensive resets under pressure. Lessons become increasingly personalized with match analysis, situational drills, and tactical decision-making designed to help players compete confidently at higher levels.
