Shadow Tennis as a Warm-up

Key Points

• Incorporating the 5 R’s into a shadow tennis warm routine in group or private settings, can help build up the muscle memory to ingrain all the specific footwork routines
• Warm ups should be tennis specific so you’re maximizing time spent on court
• As a coach, you can combine players of all different levels and incorporate this as part of the group warm up
• Focus on a different footwork theme each week such as “attacking footwork” “rally footwork” “defensive footwork” “approach shot footwork” etc.