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Net and wall games: overcome opponents in tennis challenges

6 lessons

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  • Move: performance and competition
  • Think: knowledge of rules, tactics, strategies and compositional ideas

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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.

Pupils will already have shown commitment to developing their badminton skills in games of singles and doubles. They will have had experience officiating and analysing performance which can now be applied to tennis. Later in net and wall games they will learn to apply key principles in volleyball and table tennis.

  1. Basic strokes and gameplay
  2. Bilateral movement and groundstroke consistency
  3. Serving and returning
  4. Volleys and net play
  5. Approach the net as a partnership
  6. Game play and match practice

  • Pupils know the importance of getting their body behind the ball or shuttle to transfer weight forwards as they hit.
  • Pupils understand the importance of their court positioning to avoid leaving big gaps for their opponent to hit into.
  • Pupils are able to hit basic forehands and backhands underarm and on the volley to maintain a rally.
  • Pupils show a motivation to transfer and modify their technique between different racket sports to suit the unique rules, court set-up and equipment.

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