Serve Plus React
WallNTRP 2.5–3.515 minserveforehandfootwork
Why this drill
On a wall, your serve comes back. That rebound — arriving fast and low — is a free returns machine: serve, split, and play the answer. The serve-plus-first-ball pattern, no partner required.
Setup
Twelve or more meters from the wall, serve target box chalked at net height. A clear run-up area behind you — rebounds off a full serve travel.
The drill
Serve at the box, immediately split-step, and play the rebound as a groundstroke — one controlled ball above the line, then catch. That's one rep; a rep scores when the serve hits the box AND the reaction ball clears the line. Two sets of ten from each imagined court. Log the score out of twenty.
One thought to take on court
Land the serve and land the split — the wall punishes servers who pose for photographs.