Practice on the Wall

By Alex Correia

Sometimes we look the Wall on a Practice court and you don’t realize how much you can do it right there.

Since ever the practice wall was the Tennis Player best friend. When I started my Tennis life and most of the players who played at a certain level, the wall was our best friend and where we use to spend hours per day.

There is no gain without pain, and in Tennis is no different. Unfortunately many people don’t think that way and they just go into the tennis court to play with friends or to have a tennis lesson and then? They come next week and it’s the same. Means there is no practice on your own which is vital in any sport.

It is time for you to start changing your routines.

What can I do on the wall?

You can put into practice everything without exception. If you are not very comfortable with the Practice Wall you should start from the beginning and make the things as simple as possible.

Forehand and Backhand

Control the ball just with the Forehand for example. You can set goals. First see if you can maintain the ball under control for 10 times in the row, after you succeed you try to make it 20 and so on. Do it the same with the Backhand.

After this first stage you can try to do a little bit more difficult. You can do try to alternate hitting one forehand and one backhand and put a goal again like on the previous exercise.

Volley

You can practice your volley. There is no better place to practice the volley. When you Practice on the wall the in no chance to swing when you volley (this is a very common error). You just keep yourself two meters away from the wall and try to maintain the ball under control. First Forehand then Backhand and then you can do it both. It’s a really good exercise.

Practice the Serve

It is very easy to serve against the wall. You just need to put it some targets on, over the net level of course and try to put the ball there as many times as you can. See it is easy and you don’t have anyone to disturb you.

Practice your consistency

After you are comfortable with the basic exercises you can go and make it tougher. Serve and keep the rally going as long as you can. Try this several times until you have a good score.

You can also carry out the slice, drop-shoots, smash, etc. Its just a question of imagination.

Positive aspects to retain

When you play on the wall you do it by yourself, you don’t need any partner and the wall is always there waiting for you whenever is more convenient for you.

Most of the time its easy to get a Wall to play. Most the times it is free.

You improve all your game by your own.

There are no excuses to don’t get started right away.

Follow this Tip for several weeks, make yourself and expert on this exercise and you will see a big improvement in your game. Especially the consistency. It is also prefect to try to correct some technical mistakes

Good luck..