Year 9 - Physical education
Approach the net as a partnership
Net and wall games: overcome opponents in tennis challenges
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Unit Summary
This unit will provide pupils with the opportunity to transfer their hand-eye coordination and racket skills to tennis through a range of court games that develop skills further and introduce tennis specific rules, scoring and tactics. Pupils will be challenged to play by the rules.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to attack the net as a doubles pairing to deny time and space.
Key Notes
- Move: performing a split step just as your opponent hits the ball enables quick movement towards the ball for a return.
- Move: quickly advancing to the net is crucial for cutting off your opponent's options on the court.
- Think: know that if your partner is at the net, you must join them to avoid leaving big gaps diagonally on the court.
- Feel: commitment and focus is required to fulfil the role of feeder, coach and performer.
- Connect: clear communication and decisive action is required to both be at net or both on the baseline during points.
Vocabulary To Learn
- split step: a small hop performed just before an opponent strikes the ball, allowing a player to be balanced and ready to move in any direction
- approach shot: a groundstroke hit with the intention of landing deep in the opponent's court, allowing the player to move forward to the net to volley
- decisive: making a decision quickly
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils don't align their court positioning and often find themselves with one player forward and one back.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: performing a split step just as your opponent hits the ball enables quick movement towards the ball for a return. Move: quickly advancing to the net is crucial for cutting off your opponent's options on the court.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'split step'
a small hop performed just before an opponent strikes the ball, allowing a player to be balanced and ready to move in any direction.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils don't align their court positioning and often find themselves with one player forward and one back. Correction: If one player is at the net and one is back on the baseline, it leaves big diagonal gaps through the court so it is essential for both be at net or both be on the baseline as much as possible.
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