Tennis with Three-Year-Olds

By Alan Lane

How to Get Your Child Started in Tennis

This book shows you all the steps you need to take if you want your three-year-old to get started in tennis and have a good foundation for the future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bowerbird Publishing
• Release date: Jul 13, 2023
• ISBN: 9780994203618

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Tennis with Three-Year-Olds

How to Get Your Child Started in Tennis

By Alan Lane

Tennis With Three-Year-Olds

How to Get Your Child Started in Tennis

By Alan Lane

Tennis With Three-Year-Olds: How to Get Your Child Started in Tennis

Copyright © 2015 by Alan Lane ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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ISBN: 978-0-9942036-1-8

Contents

Introduction

Hitting Wall (Backboard)

Which Hand?

Grips

Setting Up for Hitting

The Double-Handed Forehand

The Double-Handed Backhand

Rallying on the Wall

Definitions

The Volley

Parent Throw, Child Bounce Hit

The Smash

The Serve

The Single-Handed Forehand

Alternate Hits

Learning Pose 0 to Pose 1

General Advice

On Court Hitting

Summing Up

Special Advice

Other Titles

Introduction

So you want to get your three-year-old started in tennis? The most guaranteed way that I have seen is for both parents to play tennis regularly. Your child will then know that is what mummy and daddy do. And then your child will want to copy that.

Before you know it, your child will be picking up your racket and carrying it around; then pushing a ball around; then trying to get