Fast Tennis, Enduro, Zig Zag: 3 Conditioning Drills

Rapid Tennis: conditioning by reducing recovery time rather than running sprints. If you've played enough competitive tennis, you've experienced the times when your opponents have stalled their way through a match, or maybe you have stalled to catch a breath. But maybe doing sprints or other oncourt conditioning drills isn't your thing. So here are three ways to work on your conditioning and footwork in the context of the kind of drill games we've been presenting in this series. (Click Here to read more articles.) Drill games not only keep things more interesting by adding a competitive element, they are also realistic because they are based on actual on court hitting of the tennis ball. Rapid Tennis In Rapid Tennis, neither player is allowed to take a rest between points or when changing sides. In fact, the goal is to hurry to the next point or game as quickly as possible. The purpose is to challenge your conditioning. You and your opponent are required to run to pick up the balls and get in position playing the next point. And to run on the changeovers to the other side. Any hesitation will not be tolerated! Both players must push themselves...