What is Footwork?
Last updated: 3 Mar 2025
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Footwork is the coordinated movement of the feet and body to move to the most efficient position to hit a tennis ball.
Why is it important?
Footwork is very important as it directly affects a player's ability to move efficiently. It helps with moving to the best spot to hit the ball, maintaining balance, and generating power.
What do you train?
Why is it important?
Footwork is very important as it directly affects a player's ability to move efficiently. It helps with moving to the best spot to hit the ball, maintaining balance, and generating power.
What do you train?
- Agility: The body's ability to react and change direction quickly.
- Speed: Training athletes to move within the fastest time for that pattern (acceleration, reaction speed, speed endurance). Training will be done in all three directions necessary in tennis (linear, lateral, diagonal).
- Plyometric: Training the explosive power of muscles to create the ability to exert force as quickly as possible (jump, bound, hop).
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