Your Players Aren't Looking at the Wrong Thing

A player returns serve. Where are they looking? The ball? The server? The net player? The space between them? We often talk about players needing to “watch” or “look” for particular things. But there’s another question that interests me more: What are they trying to do? Because intention and attention aren’t separate problems. What a player is trying to achieve helps organise what information becomes relevant to them. That’s particularly important in doubles. 3 Coaching Ideas Start with...