Learning Outcomes
Aim: After the completion of the tennis specialization course (I) students will: know the historical evolution of the sport and the features of the necessary equipment. They will be able to perform and to teach the basic tennis strokes (forehand, backhand, service, volley, smash, lob). They will be able by appling the theoretical principles of teching methodology to create tennis teaching units. They will be aware of and they will be able to apply the tennis rules. They will be aware of and they will be able to apply in their game the basic tactic principles of the single tennis game.
Course Content (Syllabus)
Teaching units
Lectures
1.Tennis rules
2.Duties of chair umpire, lines men - tennis scorecard
3.Tennis Histoy - the evolution of tennis
4.Features of tennis equipment (racket)
5.Features of tennis equipment (strings & balls)
6.Introduction to tennis strokes-familiarization drills
7.Methodology of teahing the basic tennis strokes - technical analysis
8.Correcting technique mistakes of tennis strokes
9.Singles tactics
10.Tennis Injuries
11.The anatomy of tennis strokes
12.Istructions of how to produce-present the essay
13.Essay presentation
Practical
1.Familiariazation with tennis equipment (drills & games)
2.Learning of the forehand (flat) - improvement drills
3.Learning of the two handed bckhand (flat) - improvement drills
4.Practice of the the forehand (flat)and the two handed bckhand (flat)
5.Learning of the service (flat)- improvement drills
6.Learning of the forehand-backhand volley - improvement drills
7.Learning of the smash (flat)- improvement drills
8.Practice of the learned tennis stokes - drills for real game situations
9.Single game - implementation of tennis rules
10.Implementation of the singles games tactics principles
11.Practice on playing percentage tennis
12.Footwork drills
13.Presentation of students' teaching units