PROGRAMS

AFTER-SCHOOL TENNIS PROGRAM

Tennis Academy proposes tennis programs for all from the beginners to the more serious players.

Level 1: Discovery (4-5-6 years old)

This class uses ITF standard color ball, the red ball.
Session is 30 minutes. By facing different situations with other kids, in several games, kids explore their potential, build their coïncidence anticipation, balance and coordination.
Catching and throwing the balls to different targets, learning trajectories of bouncing ball. And slowly learning to toss the ball by themselves and serve underhand on a small net.
Step by step they learn forehand and backhand grip, and basic moves.

Level 2: Red balls (6,7,8 years old)

This level uses ITF standard color ball (Red ball). We start to work on the fundamentals on the real net, in the service boxes. We keep on working on the coincidence anticipation and start to learn the basic techniques forehand and backhand, the right distance from the ball at the stroke, the feet orientation and step by step controlling the direction.
Serve underhand in few directions is taught.
At the end of this level kids are able to play short matches in one box + alley, and can rally together.

Level 3: Green balls (7,8,9,10 years old)

At this level, kids play on an intermediary court, they are stronger and their coïncidence anticipation is near resolved so we can work the technique more in details. We work more on the hand's role before the stroke, insist on the adjustment to control the direction, work on the depth control and how to vary the trajectories.
We learn how to serve overhead and play points on different areas (half court with alley and intermediary court) We really enter in a tactical vision at the end of this level to be able to play with an intention (play deep or play on my backhand opponent).

Level 4: Beginner normal balls (over 9 years old)

Saigon Tennis Academy | Level 4 : Tennis students of over 9 years old

Session is 1h30.
This is the first level which use normal balls, bouncing really more than the orange one.
At this level we play on the normal court and we work on the base line techniques. Our objective is to get the correct fundamentals with the fast normal ball on the forehand, backhand and serve, to be regular, controlling the ball direction and to be able to play deep and to move back fast.

Level 5: Intermediary level (over 10 years old)

Session is 1h30.

Kids and teenagers are able to play correct forehand and backhand and we work on the steadiness and the feet actions during the strokes to be more powerful, on the footwork, on the serve.
We learn how to play on the ball heights according to the intention, differentiate holding strokes and accelerations.
We start to work at the net also.
We learn how to anticipate and simple tactical skills.

Level 6: Competition level ( Over 11 years old)

At this level we work on giving more technical solutions to players who want to be able to adapt themselves to different situations. We work on the physical capacities, the different techniques to attack and defend, replacement anticipation, reading the game.

We insist on volley and smash techniques, the 2nd ball topspin serve, the underspin backhand.
We insist a lot on the different step at the strike: line step, open step, jumped step.
The objective is also to give to our players the sense of responsibility, to help them to find their own motivation and to customize their own game.