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Acemate S10 Pro vs S10: Which One Fits Your Game?
Choose the Acemate S10 for sessions of one to two hours that you set up and carry yourself, and for feeding juniors or first-time players. Choose the Acemate S10 Pro for back-to-back training, for ...
How to Drill Inside-Out and Inside-In Forehands With a Tennis Ball Machine
Place the ball machine on the far baseline several feet to the right of the center mark, feed balls into your backhand third at mid-court depth and low speed, and set the interval at 8 to 10 secon...
Ball Collection vs. Continuous Rally: Which Uses Practice Time Better?
Neither one wins outright. Fed-ball practice gives you dense repetition and loses roughly 40% of every block to picking balls up. Continuous rally practice has no scheduled collection at all, but ...
How to Improve Contact-Point Spacing With Repeatable Ball Feeds
Set the feed so every ball lands in the same spot at the same height and pace, then change one thing about yourself per set. A contact point has three parts: how high you strike the ball, how far ...
Hit, Recover, Repeat: Recovery Footwork Drills With a Ball Machine
Recovery footwork is trainable on a ball machine because the feed repeats. You can set the exact pattern, mark the exact recovery point, and count how many times you reach it before the next ball ...
Tennis Ball Machine Volley and Approach Shot Drills
Raise the launch angle for net drills instead of flattening it, and add speed rather than taking it away. A machine sitting on the far baseline is about 60 feet from a player standing on the servi...
When Should You Slow the Ball Machine Down to Fix Technique?
Slow the machine down at the start of every session as a warm-up, and again whenever you can't hit three clean shots in a row with the change you're working on. Warm-up sits around 25 to 35 mph wi...
How to Progress a Tennis Robot Drill: Change One Variable at a Time
Change one setting, by one step, and only when your score says the drill has gotten too easy. Score every drill out of 20 balls and let that number decide whether you move up, stay put, or undo th...
Tennis Ball Machine Forehand Drills: Contact, Direction, Depth, and Recovery
Work the four in order and do not move on until the current one holds. Contact first, then direction, then depth, then recovery. Most forehand sessions fail because all four get worked at once: so...
Tennis Ball Machine Cardio Workout: How to Condition Without Losing Technique
Buy intensity with distance, not with a faster feed. Widening the placement and adding recovery ground raise your heart rate while leaving you enough time to set up and swing properly. Shortening ...
Tennis Ball Machine Drills by NTRP Level: 2.5 to 4.5
The drills change less between levels than the settings and the target do. A 2.5 and a 4.5 both hit crosscourt forehands off a machine. The 2.5 does it at 25 mph off a fixed center feed aiming at ...
4-Week Tennis Ball Machine Training Plan: A Progressive Practice Program
This 4-week tennis ball machine training plan runs three sessions a week, with one job per week: Week 1 grooves your contact, Week 2 adds direction and depth, Week 3 adds movement and recovery, We...