the baseline, remember that the first 2 balls are normally shot with
a slightly higher speed so wait 2 balls before lowering the speed.
The frequency should be at 7-9.
4. The machine will now shoot balls close to the net and high balls at
the back of the court and the 2 players should together intercept all
the balls. They also should communicate together who is
intercepting the balls in the horizontal middle.
==> Dependant on the player-level, the frequency could be set slower or
faster. The speed is always close to 70 km/h but could be set to 60 for
lower level and 80 for higher level players.
Netplay in doubles
Many players in a double play are standing at the net position and are
only looking how their partner are hitting the ball constantly from the
back of the court cross to the opponent. Beside that this cost hardly any
effort for the netplayer (the netplayer only could get a stiff neck :-) ), also
there are hardly any points scored at the net. In a double play the net
player should be active at the net and take some risks to score the ball. It
is not a fault when the net player sometimes is passed at the net as long as
there are enough winners at the net. Also active netplay makes the
opponents unsure which indirectly produces points. Therefore, in this
training the net player has to intercept as much balls as possible.
1. Place the ball machine just behind the baseline at the right side
court between the single and double play line, turn the ball
machine a bit skew in the direction of the horizontal middle of the
other side of the court.
2. Set “horizontal movement” and turn on the machine and set the
speed at 70-120 km/h (dependent on the player-level).
3. The net player stands at the net position and should intercept as
much as possible balls.
4. Start shooting balls and check if the balls straight forward (close to
the double play line) are just inside the double line. Turn the ball
machine slightly to the left or right for perfect balls.
5. The net player should constantly move some forward everytime
(“split-step”) to transform the forward speed to side speed for
intercepting the balls. This is very intensive and therefore this
could be done with several players after each other (everyone hits
about 10-20 balls).
==> This training could also be done at the left half of the court. For
many players the range of the balls between left and right is very much,
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