Solo on a court

An empty court and a bucket of balls is a complete practice — serves to targets, self-fed drops into the kitchen, and the transition footwork nobody else drills.

Drops to Targets
15 min
High-volume third-shot drop practice with nobody feeding. Self-feeding removes the excuse: a bucket of balls, a target in the kitchen, and every rep is the shot that gets you to the line.
2.5–4.0+Third-shot drop
Serve Corners
15 min
The serve is the only shot you control completely, and the only one you can practice completely alone. Deep, placed serving turns the one guaranteed touch per rally into a reliable edge.
2.5–4.0+Serve & return
Transition Footwork Circuit
10 min
The trip from baseline to kitchen line is footwork before it is anything else: split step, advance, stop, split step again. Ten minutes of patterning without a ball makes the pattern automatic when there is one.
2.5–3.5Transition zoneMovement & fitness
Lob Tracking
10 min
The footwork that saves you from the lob — drop-step, turn, track back — decays fastest of any pattern because open play barely exercises it. Self-tossed lobs rebuild it safely, one rep at a time.
3.0–4.0+Lobs & overheadsMovement & fitness