Adult Tennis Lessons in Mountlake Terrace

USTA Doubles: Compete to Win

Are you the best doubles partner or teammate you can be? Do you want to win the deciding court for your USTA team? Enroll in our new clinic, USTA Doubles: Compete to Win, and don’t let your doubles partner down!

In this clinic we will focus on improving important skills that you will utilize every match.

Including:

• Positioning yourself and court awareness
• Learning to target where your opponents are not.
• Picking successful return targets
• Serving with a purpose
• Tactics
• Formations
• 3 types of poaching
• 3 types of overheads

If you want to compete at your best level or improve your USTA rating then this is the clinic you are looking for. We will adopt the mindset of trying to improve .1% better every day whether this be on or off the court. If we do this then naturally over the course of a year we have found ourselves 37% better than where we started. Adopting this attitude will not only help you with your individual game but also gives you a better chance at success within your USTA team.

We will be booking USTA Doubles: Compete to Win for 2 hours each session and allowing no more than 4 players per court to ensure that you have the time and instruction to improve your doubles game. Make your preparation and travel time worth it during an extended period of practice with a built in track of progression that the coaches will guide you through.

USTA Singles: Compete to Win

Do you want to win the deciding court for your USTA team? Enroll in our new clinic, USTA Singles: Compete to Win, and don’t let your team down!

In this clinic we will focus on improving important skills that you will utilize every match.

Including:

• Positioning yourself and court awareness
• Learning to target where your opponents are not.
• Picking successful return targets
• Serving with a purpose
• Serve Patterns
• Return Patterns
• Rally Patterns
• Master the 7 types of approach shots

If you want to compete at your best level or improve your USTA rating then this is the clinic you are looking for. We will adopt the mindset of trying to improve .1% better every day whether this be on or off the court. If we do this then naturally over the course of a year we have found ourselves 37% better than where we started. Adopting this attitude will not only help you with your individual game but also gives you a better chance at success within your USTA team.

We will be booking USTA Singles: Compete to Win for 1.5 or 2 hours each session and allowing no more than 3 players per court to ensure that you have the time and instruction to improve your singles game. Make your preparation and travel time worth it during an extended period of practice with a built in track of progression that the coaches will guide you through.

Doubles Tactics

Each session, coaches will highlight a tactic/style of play, when to use it, and how to play against that style. For example, for teams that like to poach a lot; coaches will suggest using a lob to neutralize their effectiveness. This program is all about playing points in live situations. Each session will start with a warm up feeding drill for the basic strokes. Then, coaches will focus on a specific stroke to different areas of the court with a short technical breakdown and a reinforcement drill. The majority of the session will be point-play situations focusing around the shot of the day. Each program will vary depending on the targeted USTA rating.

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Kingco Team Practice

This is an open practice for ladies with a USTA rating of 4.5+. KingCo Cup is a tennis league of female players for the Seattle Area Cup Tennis (SACT) League. Players who wish to join the league or just practice along with other competitive females are welcome to join in on the KingCo Cup Practices. This is open to players on any Kingo team.

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Live Ball

• This program focuses on live point plays in doubles teams, improving rallying, teamwork skills, and learning how to play against different opponents. This program is ideal for those who want to play in live-ball situations, aren’t entirely confident in playing in a match, or just looking for some fun rallying with others.
• If you’re unfamiliar with live ball, this are how the game works:
• Setup: Coaches will divide the players and choose two “champions” of the court, which will stay on the feeding side of the court. The rest of the “opponents” will stay on the other side of the net, forming a line at the back wall. The first two players in line will position themselves in default doubles positioning. Rotations will happen throughout the game, with the “opponents” team. Net players going to the back of the line, baseline players going to the net, and the first players in line going to the baseline.
• Playing: The players at the baseline will hit a groundstroke from the coach. Players on court will then play out the point. If the “opponents” win the point, then the coach will feed the next shot to the players at the net for a volley. Finally, the last ball from the coach will be for the players at the baseline for an overhead shot. After 3 consecutive points, the “opponents” on court will become the new “champions” and the old champions will go to the back of the line, and the new “opponents” will be the two players in the front of the line. If the “champions” win any point, the “opponents” will rotate.

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Red Zone

This program is focused on net play, either properly executing volleys, or scoring points at the net. Coaches will use different drills to help build players’ confidence in running up to the net and explain what net strategies are helpful during match play.

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Serve & Return

Players will learn how to control their aim with their serves, by hitting 6 different serving targets. Coaches will also teach how to hit serves with spins, and explain how to use them. Players will receive individualized critiques to implement into their technique. This program will also give players the luxury of receiving live serves from players with different techniques. Players will learn tactical shot selection, learning when to lob, chip, or drive their returns based off of their opponent’s performance.

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Adult Tennis 101

Players with little to no tennis experience, and with a goal of learning how to play tennis. Every month we will develop the basic technique for each stroke; forehand, backhand, volley, overhead, serve and return. These sessions will utilize repetition training, teamwork challenges and cooperative point play in a positive yet encouraging environment. Players will learn basic tennis match etiquette, rules, and format. During the sessions we will include hand eye coordination and balance activities to help develop general athleticism.

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